Trillium zwanze day

They'll have plenty of beer there and there's no reason to line up before they open. The lines end up forming at the bars inside so there isn't really a way to avoid that. Last year, the line was big at the one pouring kriek/zwanze and the other bar was easy to get a drink at. They split different cantillons between the two bars so you could go to either.

 

Curious on what bottles were available last year? Fou Foune?

 

As I recall, the bottles were only Trillium. I think they had Classic, Iris, Mamouche, and Kriek from Cantillon on draft and the rest were their own (both draft and bottle).

 

180 tickets so it shouldn't be overly busy.

Tilquin was pouring and Iris was grand cru. Other than that it was all trillium.

 

I think at the easy line the Cantillons were Iris Grand Cru and Classic. From Trillium, I can only accurately say there was double red stonington. Probably a Soak and some IPAs on the other taps.

I also remember the Kriek pouring slow AF. Maybe from foaming too much. So that could've been the whole reason that line was so long since most people were ordering it.

 

Instagram said a zwanze day info email will be sent out shortly. A buddy of mine just sent the Monks Zwanze draft list and it included, gueze,nath, st hilles, st lamvinus, vigneronne, kriek, zwanze. Hopefully we get quite a few as well.

 

What are the 8 teasers?

 

Draft:
Zwanze
Classic Geuze
Cuvee St Gilloise
Vigneronne
Nath
St Lamvinus

Bottle:
Kriek 2017
Rose de Gambrinus 2017

 

Damn, that is lightyears ahead of last year's draft list.

 

Anyone going to Seymour, or have thoughts on how the Seymour event went last year? Going there with some friends for the 2:30 session.

 

Yes it is and the entire approach this year seems much better than last year in terms of cost.

Last year was $100pp for 2 glasses, 30 total oz of beer, 1 pizza, and an ice cream. This year is $15 for 1 glass and 1 beer (guessing 5 oz?) so unless the draft pours are exorbitantly priced this will end up being a much better deal.

 

Sad to say, but I very much disliked it. They did all beers as courses, which kinda took forever, and they didn't tap the Zwanze at the specified time all are supposed to tap it. Overall bad experience.

 

Fingers crossed. I'm a little worried about the pricing.

 

My type of event, the perfect amount of people, plenty of beer to go around and prices on certain beers that people can't complain about. Hopefully I can win the lottery again next year.

 

What were they charging for bottles?

 

Lottery sucks

 

Demand massively outpaces supply. What's the better choice? Mad online scramble at noon on a random day sucks just even more.

 

So does showing up hoping for the best. Years back that was fine. Cantillon's cult following has been infiltrated by the rare chasers. It makes events like these harder to navigate.

Lottery rules.

 

Beats paying for scratch off tickets. Still pissed at Portsmouth for that nonsense.

 

Nice to see Lord Hobo zwanze day prices still live on. $75 for a 750ml of Fou. Thanks Danny

 

Yikes. That's awful. Paid $25 for a 750 of Vig and $16 for a 350 of rose tonight. No zwanze no prob. Trill is really pushing it with pricing across the board.

 

Nah, at least that way you know right away if you got a ticket. Having to wait for 3 days only to find out your a loser sucks

 

thought I'd chime in quick...we did a bit of diligence about how to do mark up from wholesale pricing as this isn't something we're super familiar with. so we landed at prices on par if not lower than other shops that are lucky enough to be able to pour these special beers. aside from the general shittiness of taking advantage of lambic enthusiasts like that, we expect the van roy family and shelton folks would be pretty disheartened to see the intention of spirit of zwanze stomped on by doing something like that. clearly lambic is going to be pretty expensive...and we didn't shout about it through our ticket sale process or during the day, but we take the incredible enthusiasm for this stuff and amplify it in to something more impactful; we have proceeds from the event going to Family Reach, an organization that helps families experiencing financial distress due to cancer http://familyreach.org/our-mission/

 

A bit more: having demand outstrip supply is not a unique problem. Happens frequently in sports, music, Broadway, etc. But very rarely (never?) Do you see public lottery as the only mechanism for getting tickets.

Better than pure lottery would be a Golden ticket like method which awards customers a chance to win. You can take that in many ways which gives preference (or not) to frequent brewery visitors. As least this way you know you're giving tickets to frequent customers. This is why Super Bowl tickets are awarded by lottery only to season ticket holders, and then weighted by tenure. Reward your best customers

But, open lottery to anyone is the worst of all world's.

 

I respect your opinion, but totally disagree. I strongly prefer the open lottery system (perhaps even deprioritizing attendees from the previous year to allow new people to participate) to any other system and consider it the most fair, and it's not even close. It's also the simplest system to manage for Trillium.

From a business perspective, the only reason to prioritize frequent buyers would be to either increase revenue from those customers (because they feel Trillium has rewarded their patronage) or mitigate loss of revenue from those customers (because they feel Trillium hasn't rewarded their patronage). I just don't see either of those being big enough factors to cause Trillium to take on the additional overhead of a more complicated ticketing system.

 

were the glasses for sale besides the event itself after?

 

Assuming you were at your computer at a precise time on a random day. Life happens and most people can't rearrange it to buy beer tickets. That system is the least fair. Giving everyone sufficient time to enter and then randomly selecting winners is fair. It just is. If Trillium wants to hold a few slots for its best customers and long time supporters, more power to them. Maybe they did.

 

I believe last year they were

 

This too shall pass, my child.