Bay Area Thread

[stupac2]

So, we all know haveuseenmycellar will be first in line, right?

Yet another reason to avoid it.

 

[user 304985]

Nothing like having Thanksgiving on Folsom Street this year.

Cannot wait to hear the story of line cutting mules

Will not be surprised if this is the first instance of a fight/stabbing at a beer release due to line cutters

 

[drgarage1]

Will not be surprised if this is the first instance of a fight/stabbing at a beer release due to line cutters

Just remember to sleep in your car.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

No doubt, he camped out for Cable Car if I recall correctly. He's probably there already.

 

[drgarage1]

No doubt, he camped out for Cable Car if I recall correctly. He's probably there already.

Again? The original was for T25.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

Again? The original was for T25.

Could have been that. It's been a while since I heard the story. He camped out at toranado to buy some beer for $50+. I thought it was Cable Car, but T25 would make more sense.

 

[stupac2]

Could have been that. It's been a while since I heard the story. He camped out at toranado to buy some beer for $50+. I thought it was Cable Car, but T25 would make more sense.

I don't see why it has to be only one. He's camped out for T-25, T-26, City Beer's most recent anniversary, and Mikkellerbar's opening that I'm aware of. Oh, and T-26 was kind of "great", he actually changed his flights for a trip to Belgium to go to it.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

I don't see why it has to be only one. He's camped out for T-25, T-26, City Beer's most recent anniversary, and Mikkellerbar's opening that I'm aware of. Oh, and T-26 was kind of "great", he actually changed his flights for a trip to Belgium to go to it.

LOL he planned a trip to belgium during a release? What a n00b.

 

[CharlieMurphy1]

Now, where the **** is Abyss?!?!

Is $20 for this in the city normal?!?!

 

[johnnyramirez]

Is $20 for this in the city normal?!?!

I got mine at Safeway and BevMo in the East Bay/Central Valley last year for $14.99. I did see a few mom and pop shops charging upwards of $20.

 

[RyanG1]

BevMo in SF was one bottle per customer. Various Whole Foods have it with no limit, but some store were keeping it in the back. So ask.

 

[user 304985]

A shitload of Beatification will be onsale on the 14th. Get your gopickitupformebros set up.

 

[Usofar]

Behind Door #2... We are releasing the next batch of Beatification, our 100% spontaneously fermented barrel-aged sour beer ,or "Sonambic", on Saturday, December 14th! As you can see in the video we have just over 1,000 cases available! Beatification is a brewpub only release and will also be available on draft- yum! There will be a limit of 12 bottles per person at $18/bottle. A case of Beatification would look great under the Christmas tree! We will open at 9am that morning and have 2 options for our guests: there will be an area just for bottle sales if you want to get in and go. And anyone desiring a breakfast beer is welcome to join us in the pub. Hopefully lots of people will come out for this release so be prepared to wait for a bit. Vinnie and I will be there to personally wish you all Happy Holidays!

 

[stupac2]

I figured that this was big enough news to deserve its own thread.

 

[buzzword]

I figured that this was big enough news to deserve its own thread.

guess I'll have to get my cold weather gear out for the inevitable sidewalk sesh...

 

[litheum94]

Behind Door #2... We are releasing the next batch of Beatification, our 100% spontaneously fermented barrel-aged sour beer ,or "Sonambic", on Saturday, December 14th! As you can see in the video we have just over 1,000 cases available! Beatification is a brewpub only release and will also be available on draft- yum! There will be a limit of 12 bottles per person at $18/bottle. A case of Beatification would look great under the Christmas tree! We will open at 9am that morning and have 2 options for our guests: there will be an area just for bottle sales if you want to get in and go. And anyone desiring a breakfast beer is welcome to join us in the pub. Hopefully lots of people will come out for this release so be prepared to wait for a bit. Vinnie and I will be there to personally wish you all Happy Holidays!

So either the waitress I talked to a month ago was full of **** or they were just plain lying to people when she told me bottles wouldn't be ready for another year.

 

[bugdoc]

So either the waitress I talked to a month ago was full of **** or they were just plain lying to people when she told me bottles wouldn't be ready for another year.

Vinnie had said he was shooting for a Dec/Jan release when I cornered him at the FfaC opening night party. Unless you're hearing it directly from him or Natalie, it seems one needs to take everything told to you at RR with a couple shakers of salt.

 

[litheum94]

Vinnie had said he was shooting for a Dec/Jan release when I cornered him at the FfaC opening night party. Unless you're hearing it directly from him or Natalie, it seems one needs to take everything told to you at RR with a couple shakers of salt.

That's true. It's just disappointing that they would tell a regular that. Not that I'm anyone special, but I would expect to not be fed ********.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

That's true. It's just disappointing that they would tell a regular that. Not that I'm anyone special, but I would expect to not be fed ********.

Well they should just postpone the whole thing then since a waitress told you differently.

 

[shelf_turd_ferguson]

I check out the RR brewpub board occasionally, and it seems it is currently the leanest it's been in a year or two (that I've seen).
Any thoughts?

 

[litheum94]

Well they should just postpone the whole thing then since a waitress told you differently.

Nah, I'd just rather they get their story straight.

 

[stupac2]

Nah, I'd just rather they get their story straight.

Alternatively, you could guess that the waitress probably knows as much as you do about RR's barrel program, and that she may have been giving you her best guess, and trusting her best guess to be accurate was not the best idea ever.

 

[litheum94]

Alternatively, you could guess that the waitress probably knows as much as you do about RR's barrel program, and that she may have been giving you her best guess, and trusting her best guess to be accurate was not the best idea ever.

Russian River is pretty small employee wise, and all the employee's are very in tune to what's going on there. I don't think it was unreasonable for me to believe this information from a waitress who has worked there for years.

 

[stupac2]

Russian River is pretty small employee wise, and all the employee's are very in tune to what's going on there. I don't think it was unreasonable for me to believe this information from a waitress who has worked there for years.

From literally everything I've heard the restaurant employees are basically clueless.

 

[litheum94]

From literally everything I've heard the restaurant employees are basically clueless.

Hmm. The interactions I've had with them don't bear that out, but I'm sure some of them are clueless. Was just surprised who the clueless one turned out to be.

 

[stupac2]

Hmm. The interactions I've had with them don't bear that out, but I'm sure some of them are clueless. Was just surprised who the clueless one turned out to be.

Well, you're up there, so maybe you've had some good ones, but I've literally never heard of scuttlebutt from an RR restaurant employee that wasn't completely false. Brewery employees? Maybe they know what's going on. The waitstaff really don't seem to.

 

[Arbitrator]

Hmm. The interactions I've had with them don't bear that out, but I'm sure some of them are clueless. Was just surprised who the clueless one turned out to be.

One of the waiters swore up and down a couple of years ago that Compunction was going to be bottled. They really don't know anything. They're simply focused on being (sort-of) good waitstaff, not catering to beer geeks.

 

[duketheredeemer]

Compunction was going to be bottled.

That would have given me such a boner.

 

[stupac2]

That would have given me such a boner.

Prepare to get a boner:

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

Bevmo in Oakland got 4 cases of BCBS yesterday and was sold out today by noon when I went in there.