I don't, i never bought one.
Do you have gumballhead or zombie dust
Not currently. I had a Gumball at Big Star the other day though. Also Louisville Beer Store just tweeted they have Gumball.
Combos or Pringles, choose wisely.
Pringles, Sour Cream & Onion.
How do feel about the cluster**** releases that you've taken responsibility for?
Also, what's your favorite Coil record?
I feel overall pretty good about it with a few caveats.
Black Friday was myself at Eric Hobbs (who worked for Goose as the key account manager before leaving to start Penrose) trying to figure out how the **** we were going to execute the $42.99 price point of Rare. Remember, in 2010, the most expensive beer on the shelf in Chicago was high end ridiculous (Sink the Bismarck/Tactical Nuclear Penguin,) highly allocated sold as specialty spirit (Utopia) or sold rather quickly (Cantillon Iris etc....and yes, they used to be shelf beers.)
When i was offered that much Rare, i was thinking long game. I figured if it didnt all sell, cellaring was going to be very popular in a few years simply due to how many BA imperial stouts and such were starting to trickle through, and with the extraordinarily slim chance of infection due to Goose's amazingly solid barrel program, it'd hold. It also offered me the chance to buy the most amount of BCS and related for an account ever, which i kinda liked as a notch on the belt and also would hold well if it didn't sell. Also recall, before this, BCS was basically a once a year brew but you could find it all year at various slower locations. That said, to their credit, Binny's gave me enough rope to hang myself with this one. I actually called Eric i think on Thanksgiving kinda freaking out over the sheer amount of money i'd spent on that beer wondering if anyone would actually show up. I went to some weird vegetarian Thanksgiving that night, introduced everyone at the table to Monk's Cafe, and barely slept that night.
I was shocked to see that line when i got there in the morning. Then the media showed up. Then we sold out in two hours. I was just shocked. It was crazy.
Black Friday since has been fun, but i'll tell you right now 2014 felt different and i'm pretty happy i dont have to do it this year. 970 people in line just felt different than the 600 or so they year before. The setup felt different. The Goose people felt different. I guess it's like seeing a concert in some club and then watching the band get big enough to play an arena. I had no idea the concept was going National until i saw the social media stuff...not that i was surprised, but that was kinda strange.
I think it kinda set the bar for beer releases, though. And i was able to translate that to other breweries i get behind, like the Perennial Abraxas release we did.
But i also feel like i'm a victim of my own success with that. Anyone who drank CBS at the Lincoln Park Bar knows that. It was the most quiet and chill CBS release ever, precisely because everyone THOUGHT it would be a ********, so no one showed up.
As for favorite Coil record, i'm gunna have to go with Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders. It's not really a proper album per se, it's bits and bobs/outtakes/random **** from the Horse Rotorvator period. To me, though, i find it to be a truly cohesive record. It's chaos makes it complete.
Would you rather have aids or bbq spare ribs
Hmmmm.....spare ribs.