FIB War Room

[danbanana]

Serious question: What are the chances of getting to HA on Sunday around like 3pm and 1) not have to wait in line and 2) still get a couple bottles of Big Hugs?

 

[Treebs]

Serious question: What are the chances of getting to HA on Sunday around like 3pm and 1) not have to wait in line and 2) still get a couple bottles of Big Hugs?

4 months ago I would have said yes to all the above...after seeing ass clowns wait hours for root beer bombers and 16 hours for BCBS variants I honestly have no idea.

 

[Alum]

Serious question: What are the chances of getting to HA on Sunday around like 3pm and 1) not have to wait in line and 2) still get a couple bottles of Big Hugs?

People line up and apparently drive from North Dakota for an average Big Hugs stout nowadays apparently..

http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/iso-chicago-friend-ft-hi5s_268257.htm

 

[sleuthdog]

People line up and apparently drive from North Dakota for an average Big Hugs stout nowadays apparently..

http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/iso-chicago-friend-ft-hi5s_268257.htm

I mean come the **** on....

 

[danbanana]

People line up and apparently drive from North Dakota for an average Big Hugs stout nowadays apparently..

http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/iso-chicago-friend-ft-hi5s_268257.htm

Like people in North Dakota have anything better to do.

Thanks, Treebs. You've confirmed my concern and I'm probably just gonna skip even trying. Really good beer that's not worth the hassle...

 

[SSTroller]

People line up and apparently drive from North Dakota for an average Big Hugs stout nowadays apparently..

http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/iso-chicago-friend-ft-hi5s_268257.htm

 

[capnmike]

I know this is the new normal, but from last year's thread on BA another site...

"I was there Sunday around 7 p.m. and there were still plenty of bottles left. If it's anything like in years past, you should be able to pick some up later this week without problem."

In fact, there's another post after that one talking about one entire cooler being full on Wednesday after the release.

But again, 2014 though.

 

[JulianB1]

god damn do i hate bottom feeder fuckbag lawyers who make all of us look bad. anyone who tries to scam their way into more beer from a grocery store by using legal terms should be thrown into the ******* lake.

p.s. lurchingbeast is right. i'd rather almost anyone else have those four prop. i'd give them to resident villain joel66 before JEG. at least joel66 doesn't go into sanctimonious 10 paragraph rants about how he's just an ordinary guy who happened to get some prop tee hee, he acknowledges he flips beer and whiskey in order to pay for his own consumption. like it or not, he's way more honest and has way more ******* integrity than JEG. i can't wait for the loweball hayden-y trade offers to come from this ****.

Such as this? (posted to Strong Water Trading on Facebook)

Jeff Gross
11 hrs · Celebration, FL · Edited

ISO: ORVWFRR13 (any year)

FT: BCBS proprietors, BCBS Vanilla rye, BCBS Bramble, BCBS back hard, and a bottle of 2011 BCBS. 1:5

 

[gtx281]

People line up and apparently drive from North Dakota for an average Big Hugs stout nowadays apparently..

http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/iso-chicago-friend-ft-hi5s_268257.htm

 

[JRBecks]

Good gawd, there are actually people in CCBE talking about lining up at 7am for the Big Hugs release...This only affirms that the release @ Penrose on the 20th is going to be a **** show...... I HATE CHICAGO BEER SCENE NOW

 

[Treebs]

Good gawd, there are actually people in CCBE talking about lining up at 7am for the Big Hugs release...This only affirms that the release @ Penrose on the 20th is going to be a **** show...... I HATE CHICAGO BEER SCENE NOW

That's mostly me, cfrances33, ApocalypseZombie and middlebrow trolling, but I'm sure people will actually believe us and do it.

 

[gregkoko]

That's mostly me, cfrances33, ApocalypseZombie and middlebrow trolling, but I'm sure people will actually believe us and do it.

Bookmarking this post so we can see where it all went downhill

 

[lb304854]

Bookmarking this post so we can see where it all went downhill

Yeah, that's where it went downhill.

 

[gregkoko]

Yeah, that's where it went downhill.

I for one think lining up for rootbeer was perfectly reasonable. THIS IS ONE STEP TOO FAR

 

[PHBoiler]

Good gawd, there are actually people in CCBE talking about lining up at 7am for the Big Hugs release...This only affirms that the release @ Penrose on the 20th is going to be a **** show...... I HATE CHICAGO BEER SCENE NOW

I really doubt it. I bet loads of folks in the city don't know who Penrose is. Most don't have transportation. Many pretentious citydwellers would rather get a colonoscopy than be caught dead anywhere in the suburbs. Plus it's a Saturday morning, which gives an added chance that the whalezbroz crew got too drunk at their Friday night bottleshares. I'm not saying there won't be a line, but I would bet that it'll be pretty tame.

It's not a BA stout, so there goes half the crowd. It doesn't have craigslist value, so that lowers it more. It's two Brett beers and not "sourz" so there's another knock.

Maybe I'm lying to myself here, but I think that it'll be a pretty normal bottle release.

 

[middlebrow]

I really doubt it. I bet loads of folks in the city don't know who Penrose is. Most don't have transportation. Many pretentious citydwellers would rather get a colonoscopy than be caught dead anywhere in the suburbs. Plus it's a Saturday morning, which gives an added chance that the whalezbroz crew got too drunk at their Friday night bottleshares. I'm not saying there won't be a line, but I would bet that it'll be pretty tame.

It's not a BA stout, so there goes half the crowd. It doesn't have craigslist value, so that lowers it more. It's two Brett beers and not "sourz" so there's another knock.

Maybe I'm lying to myself here, but I think that it'll be a pretty normal bottle release.

but your not accounting the nitwits that think the word wild means "sourz" or that brett is "zour." Actually was at a few reputable bars/restaurants yesterday hawking beer, presented them with a brett c wheat ale and they all said "but this aint sour."

 

[JRBecks]

I really doubt it. I bet loads of folks in the city don't know who Penrose is. Most don't have transportation. Many pretentious citydwellers would rather get a colonoscopy than be caught dead anywhere in the suburbs. Plus it's a Saturday morning, which gives an added chance that the whalezbroz crew got too drunk at their Friday night bottleshares. I'm not saying there won't be a line, but I would bet that it'll be pretty tame.

It's not a BA stout, so there goes half the crowd. It doesn't have craigslist value, so that lowers it more. It's two Brett beers and not "sourz" so there's another knock.

Maybe I'm lying to myself here, but I think that it'll be a pretty normal bottle release.

I sure hope you are correct. You and I are very similar PHBoiler, we both keep lying to ourselves about this Penrose release. Us western suburbanites need to stick together.

P.S. if there is a huge line, I blame you for convincing me otherwise

 

[JRBecks]

That's mostly me, cfrances33, ApocalypseZombie and middlebrow trolling, but I'm sure people will actually believe us and do it.

Well played

 

[PHBoiler]

but your not accounting the nitwits that think the word wild means "sourz" or that brett is "zour." Actually was at a few reputable bars/restaurants yesterday hawking beer, presented them with a brett c beer wheat ale and they all said "but this aint sour."

I've listened to many a diatribe from Tom & Eric since opening about untappd check-ins or just people to their face talking about Cherry Brett or Brett Brux beers that they've had on tap not being sour enough. Well that's because they aren't sour at all. The Wild series I'm sure will have plenty of beers with tartness, in fact these might even have some acidulated malt or multiple Brett strains. I don't know. I haven't tasted them or asked.

Godspeed to you and any other brewer trying to make it in an uneducated beer market. Maybe at some point American beer styles will evolve into new categories. I mean why make people learn stuff when you can dumb it down right? 'Merica!

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

That's mostly me, cfrances33, ApocalypseZombie and middlebrow trolling, but I'm sure people will actually believe us and do it.

The best is when people actually believe you and post somewhere else about it.

No, I'm not getting in line at 4am for ******* Big Hugs. Or any line. Ever.

 

[jeblikesbeer]

The best is when people actually believe you and post somewhere else about it.

No, I'm not getting in line at 4am for ******* Big Hugs. Or any line. Ever.

hugs is nice... but could care less about it. if its around when i show up later in the day hungover after the Fishmiss and theres a few bottles i may snag a few

 

[IronDave]

hugs is nice... but could care less about it. if its around when i show up later in the day hungover after the Fishmiss and theres a few bottles i may snag a few

After drinking the ryes at Fischmas, I anticipate no desire on my part to buy Big Hugs. Nothing special dere

 

[czar_chasm]

In chicago this week for some residency interviews, I'm sure vanilla and prop are nowhere to be found on tap but just in case, please post and/or PM me. Cheers!

 

[stxSS07]

In chicago this week for some residency interviews, I'm sure vanilla and prop are nowhere to be found on tap but just in case, please post and/or PM me. Cheers!

Yeah, PM me too guys.

 

[RedCoffee]

Both found in ample supply on shelves in DeKalb. Permanently on tap at local get-shitfaced college bar.

Come on out.

 

[stxSS07]

Both found in ample supply on shelves in DeKalb. Permanently on tap at local get-shitfaced college bar.

Come on out.

See ya this weekend you old ****.

 

[czar_chasm]

figured as much, easier to ask yall than to call every beer bar around

cheers

 

[middlebrow]

I pee'd a little.....
"No matter how many beers you mule or own, you still think wearing a fedora is cool. And that's just sad." - Treebs

 

[czar_chasm]

Also may hit up clybourn tomorrow for lunch and a few beers. Anyone would be welcome to join...

 

[daniel1]

Fedora say he's learned a lot from the beer community. Sadly, well-formed sentences and grammar were not on the lesson plan.

Treebs giving him the business. And forgive my ignorance: Tom L = ApocalypseZombie? I salute you gentlemen.