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Damn just saw your message. Got to use the @ function. I am worried you will be disappointed. I really like it but I also don't drink JJJJulius as my fallback beer.
Was coming in here to ask if anyone was there. Love that fest. Knew guys there from Calusa and Casa Agria and they were right back to back in the D tent area. So spent most of the fest under the tent having their beers. Good stuff. And saved me from the sun. Some of those lines were crazy. People waiting an hour for 3 Sons, but I can walk right up to the Other Half tent.
No guarantee on variants this year for your $180 -- might just get vintage DL (and by vintage they prolly mean '15 / '16). Just a heads up if you're planning to try for tickets, might want to avoid group E.
Yeah, saw this. Not sure what I am going to do now. What a crock of #### but at least it was before the tickets were sold.Still doesn't make things less ####ty.
$180 is ludicrous even with the variant IMO -- the base beer is meh, and half (or more) of the variants are just garbage, DL thrown in random liquor / wine barrels with random adjuncts that end up sucking.
It's just a $180 lottery ticket to try for BVDL as far as the beer goes IMO. I've given away bottles of DL the last few times I went because there are so many better stouts out there. The shares are where it's at for DL day IMO.
I go mostly for the share although I also like DL. I'm not in it for the zomgvanilla but I'd take it if I got it. But yeah, it's far from a bargain. Even less so now.
I've heard that BVDL is a totally different beer, and mind-blowingly good, from people whose taste I trust. That said, if I ended up with one I'd prolly trade it for three or four cases worth of Treehouse or Trillium hops or something.
Of course that was when it was like $15 / Bottle and it wouldn't have been quite as funny if I had paid $200 for a ticket.I was considering Muerte last year. Went Dwarven Power Bottom. Brother went Trump and Pump. Was honestly just hoping for BBA DL but just missed it. Haven't opened either yet.I've heard that BVDL is a totally different beer, and mind-blowingly good, from people whose taste I trust. That said, if I ended up with one I'd prolly trade it for three or four cases worth of Treehouse or Trillium hops or something.
I've had some really bad DL variants too -- Muerte (with smoked chile peppers I think in Tequila barrels) and Earl of Biggle something (weird spices in some kind of weird desert wine bottle -- tasted like bad sweet liquid Indian food) both totally sucked a$$ IMO. I forget which year it was, but one time the regular DL tasted like thick soy sauce too.
I've heard that the two you guys got are both good -- as is BBA and French Vanilla Militia. IMO try to stay away from anything with any kind of spices.
Nope LOL. That's a really good beer if barley wine is your thing, but it ain't $40 good.
I am a fan but just give me Central Waters, Bourbon County, or Straight Jacket for less than half of the price.
I've had it before, their tasters are 4 so went with the new. And that Coconut was excellent, was sad that they didn't have Hop Prism Purple on tap tonight.
Agree 100% -- for stuff that pricey I just go get an $8 pour in the taproom if I really want it.
Lol...it's a.touristy spot in tourist town...I thought it was tasty...but it's still not pizza.
Didn't realize you were out this way. I'll be watching throughout the day, might head up early tomorrow might not. I would really like to get a couple mikerphone check 1, 2.
Gonna be crazy for a few weeks I'd guess. Think I'm gonna wait for it to calm down a little.
It's going to be like this for a long long time I think. Mike hasn't increased his output, and demand will get higher.
Ugh. Based on the pictures I saw online and the thread at BA, it was pretty brutal. No beer is worth hours in line to me at this point.
Yeah 2+ hours in line, tap room has occupancy of 45 and only 48oz of beer each. He didn't really buy much in the way of newer or bigger or newer equipment from what I understand, just took what he had bought and been using at Une Anne/Hubbard's Cave. With his beer he's going to need something the size of what Half Acre is doing...about half of what Pipeworks is doing. He's already said his distro will shrink considerably and he sold out Mikerphone Check 1, 2 bottles in about 2 hours. That's nuts. I love his beer but hoped that him opening his own shop would make it easier to get his beer, not more difficult.
, and so true. Every time I look at untappd I'm all like 
at what he's drinking.
