Twelve Percent in NJ

There is some evil twin available at the buy rites in north Plainfield and fairview

 

Poor Henry's just tapped ATG 35k.

 

Seems like it's a slow process elsewhere.

 

Found Evil Twin and Westbrook at Shoprite Liquors in Westfield

 

Saw some at Super Buyrite in North Plainfield. Not much, but some.

 

12% means nothing to me until I can get some Westbrook Gose in my hands without going to NYC, which has not yet been the case for me. We shall see.

 

Stillwater as well at the places mentioned above that now have Evil Twin and Weatbrook. (Shop rite Westfield and super buy rite north Plainfield)

 

Counted at least 25 different twelve percent beers at Garys in Wayne yesterday.

 

Shop Rite in Little Falls has a small end cap with a decent amount of stuff... Maybe 12+ different beers.

 

I am not familiar with any 12 percent Brands other than Evil Twin. Are any others worth seeking out?

 

Stillwater, Westbrook, Local Option, Omnipollo, Tilquin. For full list see their site

 

saw they had evil twin. bought some Citra Sunshine Slacker and it was 10 months old. kinda sucks, but oh well. did they have any Omnipollo or Stillwater stuff there?

 

Haven't seen anything besides what you mentioned at Poor Henry's. I'll check back in once I find something elsewhere. Keeping my fingers crossed for some bottles of Tilquin Gueuze.

 

I saw a good variety of their brands at Garys in Wayne when I was there on Saturday. It is around.

 

nothing in south jersey ... sigh

 

Saw 6 or 7 different stillwater. No omnipollo.

 

This is from a previous job, but the wholesaler I worked with would send us a (for example) list of items for the "November 12% PO" about the week after the October order showed up. It would have lets say 50 package beers+50 kegs, with an allocation for the state (so you'd know if it was a one case per good account item, or tons available) an then you'd send them a wishlist of what we wanted. Then say, first week of November, the wholesaler gave us a list of what we could order with the prices and UPCs, and a week later we could order it. It was held for us for maybe 10 days. Then we'd get the Dec PO list soon after....

Anything people backed out of actually ordering, that was already at the wholesaler, became free game to order just like anything else at the wholesalers warehouse. So I'd say give it 2 months to get things rolling, you're probably essentially getting the "leftovers" right now, nothing old or bad, but stuff someone backed out of. 12% seemed to want a home for the beer they shipped, not just sending tons of everything to their wholesalers. Also consider that when you see a shop getting the "hard to get" 12% stuff, they have their shelves stocked with every stillwater, tons of Hof Ten, etc etc.

 

Isn't it Julian dated?