The One That Got Away...

Those BCBS bottles. Both the coffee and Bramble Rye. Saw them a few times before I was in to big BA stouts, looked at the prices and shrugged.

 

Too many to recount just one. Too many to remember just one. So many that I've stashed them all away in the short term memory portion of my brain where I forgot anything that I put there within a week.

 

I was in Washington on Business and we stopped by a grocery store where I saw every single regular RR sour on the shelf: Sanctification, Consecration, Supplication and Temptation. I wanted to buy 4 bottles of each as I pop them at home like tic tacs and they are relatively scarce in my area. Too bad I didn't want to look like a wierdo loading up the packed rental car truck with beer on the way to a meeting.

Ironically RR pulled out of Washington not long later. Good! That stuff must have sat there for a long while to accumulate all 4 variants on the shelf; that, or some distributor didn't do their job. Either way, undeserved!

 

A regular trading partner of mine was heading up to New Glarus and offered to pick me up a VSB on release day. Being over run with beer at the time I passed.

 

I could've bought 10 bottles of BA Naked Evil(Initial release)but I only grabbed two.It is still one of my favorite beers ever and I hate that I didn't pull the trigger.Passed on Black Albert and Blushing Monk numerous times at the same bottle shop.

 

Beer store guy: "We just a case of a new barrel aged stout....Assassin from Toppling Goliath"
Me: "Toppling Goliath, never heard of them, is it any good?"
Beer store guy: "I dont know"
Me: "Hmmmm....I'll pass at 22.99"

 

DOOM. I walked past a cooler stocked with that stuff 2-3 times at the brewpub. I was a newb and thought "I'm good I already have 1 at home"

 

When I was first getting into craft beer I didn't like IPAs. Sometime around 2003 or 2004 I met a friend at the Alchemist brewpub. They were friends with the bartender who offered me a Heady Topper. I turned it down and made some dumb comment/justification about why I didn't like IPAs that I probably thought sounded really smart at the time. Young and dumb! (Keep in mind was years before the Alchemist's canning facility, so you got Heady on tap or none at all.) But whatever, a great beer like Heady Topper would have been wasted on me on back then anyway.

 

Yeah there was a mistake by the distributor for all of Minneapolis should have been almost twice that price im sure that will not happen this year

 

I didn't think it aged well at all, so don't feel too bad

 

Local bottle shop had 8-10 bottles of Firestone PNC years ago. This was before I had tried any of the "box beers" yet.

fast forward a few years and I try my first Double DBA, first Parabola, and First Sucaba. I then realized I passed up on something great.

luckily a buddy of mine found a place in town that had it and we split the bottle on Thanksgiving. although we had to pay about double the original retail price.

 

ouch

 

I passed up on about 5 cases of Mexican Cake the day it came in last May because I had no idea what it was. Still haven't got to try it.

 

Just today. Got to Allagash two hours late. They had already sold out of Little Sal. 300 bottles in a little over an hour.

 

Less than an hour after my wife and I grabbed our allotment from the KBS release at Founder's, 3 bottles fell out of the back of my SUV and broke on the pavement. I make sure every box that contains beer is extremely stable when I put it in the back of my truck now!

 

About 6 months ago or so, I was just picking up some local fridge beer and saw 3F Schaerbeekse Kriek (sp) sitting on the shelf. Probably 5 or 6 750 mL bottles sitting on the shelf. $36 was a definite pass for me. I didn't realize how easy it would have been to turn that into $36 worth of beer I'd rather have and help somebody out. Now I know more about 3F. I was just so used to seeing $25+ bottles of Golden Blend sitting around that I didn't know this one was a big deal.

On the flip side, about a year ago I happened to be in a great bottle shop that just got in 750 mL bottles of Questche Tilquin. I did in fact grab one of those. Stupidly though I shared it with friends the next week instead of staring at it and shooting down trade requests. Clearly I just don't do craft beer right these days.

 

I passed on barrel aged Imperial Biscotti Break this year because it was like $25. I had the regular Biscotti and it was fine. I think I was buying KBS when the clerk told me about the barrel aged and I just thought to myself I had to cut costs somewhere. Then I started reading reviews of it online and regretted it. Luckily, a month later, a friend and I split a bottle at a bar for just $18. It was great.

 

I could have bought, of couple 2009's last year, but I didn't know anything about craft beer at the trime

 

Pretty sure this is still sitting around at some stores here in Vancouver

 

I'm really not interested in IPA's; but around January I was walking through the local Woodman's and my brother pointed out the display of FFF Zombie Dust. He instructed me to purchase all of it, drink some, and trade some, everyone wants this. I refused because of my indifference to IPA's ... sure wish I had listened ...