The Bruery Fruet

Nick has seen it, so next week for sure

 

Any one seen this yet?

 

Should be around town starting today.

 

I will keep my eyes open then!

 

FYI, Letspour had it today for $33. Didn't seem that bad of a markup since the Bruery was selling it for $30 if my trading partner was telling me the truth on his cost.

 

Oh good, it's cheap!

 

Seems to be getting to be the norm doesn't it.

 

I paid $30 @ Bruery Provisions last month.

 

Sooooo....anyone seen it in Denver yet?

 

No I went around to several stores I thought might have it after work yesterday and no luck, yet.

 

MR B's got 6 bottles in and it's at the low, low price of $34

 

Thought that I saw Mile High mention that they received some. Anyone pick one up from them?

 

Saw it at MH today, but they didn't have prices out on it yet. In my experience, that usually means you don't want to know what the hell it costs.

 

I got one of these in LA a couple weeks ago, it was $33 there too

 

Is it $33 good?

 

I got one...there was no price on it. I didn't really want to know, but I asked...$32.99 + tax.

 

Two questions about this beer.
1) What type of bourbon barrels was this aged in?
2) How long was it aged for?

Unless the answers are PVW and more than 7 years, this price is ridiculous. Not that I'd want a beer to be barrel aged for 7 years, but the fact that it costs more than a bottle of semi-decent bourbon and those guys have to buy virgin barrels (4x the cost) and age it for around seven years, should put it in perspective. Not to mention bourbon borders on 3x the alcohol. Hops and malts aren't THAT expensive.

Regardless of a bourbon comparison, this is around (or more) than twice the cost of many of the other excellent BA barleywines out there.
Sucaba = $17
Blighs=$17
KH = $15 (PVW barrels)
Arctic Devil = $12
Olde Bluehair = $13

And to put something on the label about "thanks for the support from the community" and then throw this price tag on it is just annoying.

They're just testing the top-end of the market to see if people will bite. I'll save my money and buy two bottles of Bligh's when it comes back out.

<end grumpy old man rant>

 

He was telling the truth. It was 30 when I bought it at the Provisions.

Its not a BA Barleywine. Its a Solaris(Not sure right word there) method Old Ale Blend with all the vintages blending into this one and continuing down the Anniversary path.

Also according to Patricks last blog posts, most beers average 14 months in barrels.
http://bruery.blogspot.com/search?u...d-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6

Cheers!