Cigar City El Catador Club Thread

[DanzBorin]

March 8th, 2014 is Hunahpu's Day. Here are some important details:

- It's again taking place at the brewery.
- We are setting a max attendance of 3,500 people.
- The day will operate differently than in years' past. Instead of using tickets or tokens to buy individual beers, the event will be more like a "beerfest" and attendees will pay one flat rate to enter the fest and sample as many beers as they'd like all day.
- A ticket will be required to enter the fest.
- Tickets to enter the fest will be $50. All attendees will receive a special Hunahpu's Day sample glass.
- The tasting room will be open, but separate from the Hunahpu's Day Fest. There will be no samples in the tasting room that day, only pints and snifters of whatever is on tap.
- There will be no brewery tours on Hunahpu's Day.
- We plan to sell bottles of Hunahpu's Imperial Stout throughout the day. Details on bottle limit, etc are still being determined.
- There will be no parking at the brewery, however across the street at the old Sears & Roebuck building will be parking, as well as a few other businesses in the neighborhood that will open their lots (for a fee). Please DO NOT PARK in the residential neighborhood, or at Home Depot, Whole Foods, Target, etc. Like every year we strongly encourage carpooling.
- There will be merchandise and other goodies to purchase that will be cash only.
- Food trucks will be there, as well as live music!
- The fest will be from 11am to 5pm.

Details for purchasing tickets to the Hunahpu's Day Fest will be announced VERY soon, however we would like to say now that El Catador Club members will receive first access to purchase them. If you're an El Catador Club member, stay tuned to your emails (and the Facebook and Twitter) for more details.

I hope they give us out of state members a chance to buy 2-4 bottle of Hunahpu's without attending.

With the amount they make, they should reward members with a little treat.

 

[netdigger2]

I hope they give us out of state members a chance to buy 2-4 bottle of Hunahpu's without attending.

With the amount they make, they should reward members with a little treat.

Pony up and drive. I live in South Carolina and have made the 10 hour drive every year. Totally worth it.


Edit:

There are always left over cases every year, get your trustee to buy you 2-4 bottles. if you don't show.

 

[DanzBorin]

Edit:

There are always left over cases every year, get your trustee to buy you 2-4 bottles. if you don't show.

I sure hope this is true. I have my son on 3/8 so can't make it.

 

[Hanzo1]

Anyone know if tickets to Huna day will be transferrable?

 

[Corbot_3000]

Anyone know if tickets to Huna day will be transferrable?

Probably not. CCB is going to make it very hard to get tickets on the secondary market.

 

[lazerviking]

Surprised no one has posted this yet:
[T]his edition of El Catador Club will end on Thursday, February 27th at 11pm. As current members, you will have first right of refusal to join the second edition of the club. We will announce details on how you can rejoin at a later date, but to get you excited about what the future holds, here are the bottles you are guaranteed as a member of the second edition of El Catador Club:

• Barrel-aged Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
• Barrel-aged Caffè Americano Double Stout
• A barrel-aged barley wine
• Mystery Bottle #1
• Mystery Bottle #2

I was most likely not going to rejoin after some of the clunkers this go-around, but these beers will likely change the equation. What does everyone think?

 

[stxSS07]

Surprised no one has posted this yet:
[T]his edition of El Catador Club will end on Thursday, February 27th at 11pm. As current members, you will have first right of refusal to join the second edition of the club. We will announce details on how you can rejoin at a later date, but to get you excited about what the future holds, here are the bottles you are guaranteed as a member of the second edition of El Catador Club:

• Barrel-aged Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
• Barrel-aged Caffè Americano Double Stout
• A barrel-aged barley wine
• Mystery Bottle #1
• Mystery Bottle #2

I was most likely not going to rejoin after some of the clunkers this go-around, but these beers will likely change the equation. What does everyone think?

IN.

 

[MKtheGeneral]

Surprised no one has posted this yet:
[T]his edition of El Catador Club will end on Thursday, February 27th at 11pm. As current members, you will have first right of refusal to join the second edition of the club. We will announce details on how you can rejoin at a later date, but to get you excited about what the future holds, here are the bottles you are guaranteed as a member of the second edition of El Catador Club:

• Barrel-aged Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
• Barrel-aged Caffè Americano Double Stout
• A barrel-aged barley wine
• Mystery Bottle #1
• Mystery Bottle #2

I was most likely not going to rejoin after some of the clunkers this go-around, but these beers will likely change the equation. What does everyone think?

I'm moreso concerned about them giving an option to sign up for this go around (for existing members) via eventbrite or another online system as I wouldn't be able to get down to Florida to sign up again.

 

[lazerviking]

I'm moreso concerned about them giving an option to sign up for this go around (for existing members) via eventbrite or another online system as I wouldn't be able to get down to Florida to sign up again.

Given that there are a ton of out of state members, I can't imagine they wouldn't.

 

[MKtheGeneral]

Given that there are a ton of out of state members, I can't imagine they wouldn't.

And to answer your initial question - yes, round 2 of El Catador beers looks amazing so I'd imagine a high re-sign rate.

 

[DanzBorin]

I'm moreso concerned about them giving an option to sign up for this go around (for existing members) via eventbrite or another online system as I wouldn't be able to get down to Florida to sign up again.

Since we are essentially signed up unless we refuse, I'd assume it'll remain the same or improved.

 

[Lasering]

So excited for the next year of el cat! Looks like all the bitching people did about wanting stouts and barleywines instead of the fun beers we got paid off.

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

So excited for the next year of el cat! Looks like all the bitching people did about wanting stouts and barleywines instead of the fun beers we got paid off.

I dont want "fun beers". I want beers that taste good.

 

[drbenzo1]

I thought to myself, hey Larry, you should set a reminder to order an Amplitude bottle... then I got busy playing with the kids and...

 

[stupac2]

I dont want "fun beers". I want beers that taste good.

Then you joined the wrong society!

I will not be renewing.

 

[johnyb]

Then you joined the wrong society!

I will not be renewing.

Don't go away mad

 

[drbenzo1]

http://dontdrinkbeer.com/2014/01/15...-out-in-20-seconds-and-my-labias-are-bruised/

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

Then you joined the wrong society!

I will not be renewing.

With the 3 already "announced", re-upping is a no brainer.

 

[Lasering]

Well it is el Catador ... The tasters... Not the CCB BA stout and barleywine club... Who knows maybe they will switch it up each year. I thought the 4 beers so far were awesome!

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

Well it is el Catador ... The tasters... Not the CCB BA stout and barleywine club... Who knows maybe they will switch it up each year. I thought the 4 beers so far were awesome!

I hear ya.

Stouts and barleywines are what they do well though.

 

[drbenzo1]

I haven't even opened Illuminating the Path yet...

 

[netdigger2]

I haven't even opened Illuminating the Path yet...

It seriously is amazing. I am a stout and barleywine guy too, but anyone who claims that Forgotten Island, Don Gavino's, Good Gourd Almighty, or Illuminating the Path were subpar either doesn't like beer or didn't open them.

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

Forgotten Island.

More then 2 ounces of this beer sucked. it was a mess.

 

[lazerviking]

It seriously is amazing. I am a stout and barleywine guy too, but anyone who claims that Forgotten Island, Don Gavino's, Good Gourd Almighty, or Illuminating the Path were subpar either doesn't like beer or didn't open them.

I like beer just fine and found Illuminating to be horrid. So bad that I feel bad I sent some to a few regular partners. For my palette, none of the flavors in the beer were harmonious, the mouth feel was unpleasant, and the wine-barrel clashed with the spices and the base beer.

 

[franch]

More then 2 ounces of this beer sucked. it was a mess.

this beer was ******* awful. i traded my extra one for "literally anything you have that i would like, i don't ******* care" - turned out to be coolship red!

 

[lazerviking]

I also think GGA was a big downgrade compared to regular GG.

 

[HopsJunkiedotcom]

More then 2 ounces of this beer sucked. it was a mess.

But it's rum and fruit punch. If you expected a quad to style, then yeah disappointment is the word. I loved it, personally.

 

[Doc1]

If anyone has Illuminating they hate so much, I will happily trade you shelf beers for them. Not being a troll, I will seriously take them off your hands.

 

[DaGio]

If anyone has Illuminating they hate so much, I will happily trade you shelf beers for them. Not being a troll, I will seriously take them off your hands.

mdillon86???

 

[lazerviking]

mdillon86???

I would have definitely taken Drei up on this if I had any left. I sent them all off (before opening mine!).