Brooklyn Black Ops for trade.

[Johnnyhitch1]

It's so good. There's a local bbq place that still has some for on site consumption for $30 a bottle. Good deal IMO.

Any of the superstars have them for ~20

 

[mikeysab]

Whole foods on greenwich has them for $20. Quite a few good beers there right now.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Yes but were people able to drive in after the line cleared and still get bottles?

I can't answer that, as I was in line at 4:30p the day before and got my 12 bottles so didn't need to go back and look for more. But even if someone could, it is a bit different than being able to go to hundreds of stores across 25 states and get it, as one can do with Black Ops.

Also, a little Darkness does hit a handful of stores after DD, but it is pretty limited.

 

[nunyafnb]

I can't answer that, as I was in line at 4:30p the day before and got my 12 bottles so didn't need to go back and look for more. But even if someone could, it is a bit different than being able to go to hundreds of stores across 25 states and get it, as one can do with Black Ops.

Also, a little Darkness does hit a handful of stores after DD, but it is pretty limited.

What he said. On the morning of DD, they had maybe 100 extra wristbands left after going through the line that was there at 9am, but even then, those were gone by those that showed up in the morning hoping that there would be some.

There was most likely some left at the end of the day, because not everyone that gets a wristband buys all 6 bottles, but even then, what they had was likely mostly sold. I didn't see any on the shelves at any of the liquor stores I frequent after DD.

The beer culture in the Twin Cities is such that anytime anything fairly limited hits the shelf these days, it sells out fairly instantly. Central Waters (nowhere near the cult following that Surly has) just came out with their BBS, and it sold out at one store I go to in less than an hour, apparently. Darkness is likely grabbed out of the hand of the guy trying to set it on the shelf.

All of that being said, it turns out that we get Black Ops here also. I was at a beer geek party over the weekend and a friend bought a bottle that he found locally. I had no idea because I hadn't seen it. As it turns out, I wasn't as much of a fan as I thought I might be. It had more of an oak character to it than a bourbon barrel character, IMHO. I'm personally not interested in trading for it anymore.

Regardless, I wasn't trying to imply that the Black Ops wasn't valuable, or even as valuable as Darkness. Nor was I trying to insult the OP by saying that Black Ops wasn't a rare beer. I was just giving my own personal valuation of the Darkness that I waited in line to buy. Black Ops is still a very good beer, and I'm sure that there will be someone interested in a trade for a bottle.

Cheers!

 

[ClarkBroham]

Black Ops is like $26 at the local store here in FL :/