The Half-Acre thread (2018)

This is my Friday Nov. 16 night exactly, minus the Bad Apple for lunch. Dark Lord variant bottle share as a F you to Fobab.

 

Okay, coolest thing I found out today was that HA Balmoral is a polling place today. I wish that was where I voted...

 

Also mine - definitely eating at Bad Apple

 

No kidding...

 

If you decide that you made a mistake & wish you were at Fobab, just fart in each other's faces.

 

No kidding. Last one on the list. https://news.wttw.com/2018/11/05/10-most-interesting-polling-places-chicago

 

Benthic presale option:

 

That double barrel sounds fucking legit.

 

This:

Not this:

 

2018 Benthic Has Arrived and it has brought with it two bottled variants: Double Dose & Double Barrel.

Join us at our Lincoln Avenue brewery at 11am on Friday, November 16th for the beers’ release and stick around for fun ridden hangs in the brewery.

2018 Benthic Imperial Stout with Coconut and Coffee

• a big, brash, chocolate and cherry cola pumping base beer, aged 9 months in Heaven Hill, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve barrels, blended and infused with whole bean Dark Matter coffee and toasted coconut
  
  
• $24.99/22oz bottle, 12.8% ABV
  
  
• release day limit: 4 per person

2018 Double Dose Benthic Imperial Stout with 2x Coconut and Coffee

• our same hefty base beer, aged 9 months in Heaven Hill, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve barrels, blended and infused with twice the amount of whole bean Dark Matter coffee and twice the amount of toasted coconut, plus a balancing addition of ground vanilla bean
  
  
• 29.99/22oz bottle, 12.8% ABV
  
  
• release day limit: 2 per person

2018 Double Barrel Benthic Imperial Stout

• the same, formidable base beer, aged 6 months in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels followed by 7 months in apple brandy barrels, and then infused with toasted coconut and cinnamon.
  
  
• $29.99/22oz bottle, 14.4% ABV
  
  
• release day limit: 2 per person

2018 Benthic Presale
Because jobs, conflicts, and technology exist ~ this year we are offering the option to buy 2 bottles of original Benthic and one bottle of each variant as a presale bundle. Presale will go live next Wednesday, November 14th, at 11AM.

The cost is $140, tax, fees, and hoops inclusive. There are 300 presale bundles available, limit one bundle per person. Presale bundles will be available to pick up on Friday 11/16 at our BALMORAL brewery. Should you want more than the presale allotment, you may head to the shop on Lincoln to buy additional bottles.

Case counts for the release day will be announced the night before, once all beer is packaged, counted, and accounted for.
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I want...but $140....but really want...

 

Not sure how (25 + 25 + 30 + 30) = 140? Unless I'm missing something.

 

Taxes and Fees

 

They do this for the big hugs release. Pay a premium to skip the line.

 

So much for my hopes of a minimal line for my first Benthic release.

I assume, space permitting, I can go directly to the taproom and not have to wait in the bottle line?

 

I heard if you pay the premium to skip the line, but then wait in line to double-dip, they’ll refund you the convenience fees.

 

No premium. Chicago sales tax, city alcohol tax, county alcohol tax and online portal fees.

$140 sounds right.

 

Gotcha. It's the 'hoops' part I missed.

 

Ahh, the price of convenience.

 

$30 premium is pretty damned steep

 

27%?