FIB War Room

[Alum]

What the **** is Chocolate Caliente?

Spiteful BA Malevolence with the whole "Mexican Cake" styled treatment.

It won some hardware at FoBAB, if I remember right.

It's funny because the unbarreled version has been made before.. don't remember people going crazy for that.

 

[JulianB1]

$60 retail bottle that everyone lost their minds over for the better part of 2 months is now trading even for the latest BA Huna/Mexi Cake/Abraxas riff that I've never even heard of.

Beer Trading 2015.

 

[Lansman]

I don't get it. How can something that doesn't say 'Rare' on it trade 1:1 with something called Rare?

 

[mdomask]

I don't get it. How can something that doesn't say 'Rare' on it trade 1:1 with something called Rare?

 

[dgoogle]

$60 retail bottle that everyone lost their minds over for the better part of 2 months is now trading even for the latest BA Huna/Mexi Cake/Abraxas riff that I've never even heard of.

Beer Trading 2015.

But 400 bottle count bro!

 

[YellowBird1]

But 400 bottle count bro!

348 Bruh

 

[middlebrow]

Has anyone in here ever used BCBS to make desserts with?
Or has anyone ever experimented with it in other dishes?

I want to make some BCBS fudge, or something like that... couldnt find anything online really.

Just throwing this post out here. I think I remember someone in here talking about a syrup/concentrate?

google guinness ________ recipe. replace guinness with BCS.

 

[daniel1]

Chicago Beer 2015: people truck chasing Spiteful.

 

[kawilliams81]

Guessing the Case of Rare is a store owner.

What are you talking about?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/clt/5343595427.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/clt/5341965740.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/clt/5334870137.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5344976964.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/clt/5344831375.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/clt/5344960826.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5344791311.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/clt/5344768971.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/clt/5344686117.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/for/5344359156.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/clt/5344348611.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5344206220.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/for/5344113424.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5344050258.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/clt/5343994095.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5343941369.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/clt/5343954427.html <--CASE OF RARE, WTF?
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/for/5343860677.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/clt/5339113252.html

Oh....right.

 

[danbanana]

Guessing the Case of Rare is a store owner.

You'd think that, but a CT based person on another site mentioned this week that his regular Chicago trader had two cases of Rare. After taxes and assuming paying MSRP, that person dropped almost $1,600 on that beer... somehow.

 

[sidetracked]

You'd think that, but a CT based person on another site mentioned this week that his regular Chicago trader had two cases of Rare. After taxes and assuming paying MSRP, that person dropped almost $1,600 on that beer... somehow.

Are there photos of it on the floor of a storage facility?

 

[danbanana]

Are there photos of it on the floor of a storage facility?

I'm just taking the dude's word for it. And for what it's worth, I might have mentioned that his regular Chicago trading partner sounds like a ******* *******.

 

[mjohnson171]

I run into quite a few smaller shop owners who now don't sell their special release allocations but rather keep if for personal trading purposes. I'm not kidding when I say I've met 3 different owners like this in the past few months. Rubs me the wrong way when you use your position as a store owner with a connection to a distributor to purchase rare beer at wholesale then use it as trade bait or worse sell it on Craigslist/MBC/secondary market.

#BeerTrading2015

 

[thewimperoo]

Maybe it was ********, maybe it was not but there was some **** in the CCBE that posted 34 bottles of Rare.

Da ****?

 

[fear0251]

Has anyone in here ever used BCBS to make desserts with?
Or has anyone ever experimented with it in other dishes?

I want to make some BCBS fudge, or something like that... couldnt find anything online really.

Just throwing this post out here. I think I remember someone in here talking about a syrup/concentrate?

Here's a recipe to make "Beer Jam": http://modernmealmaker.com/2012/04/beer-jam-correction-for-the-preservation-kitchen/

We have used this recipe to make Bourbon County Stout Manhattans: http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/random-thoughts-thread.217/page-2105#post-505616

It's really versatile though, use it on anything.

 

[sidetracked]

Maybe it was ********, maybe it was not but there was some **** in the CCBE that posted 34 bottles of Rare.

Da ****?

Do you think he'll add his credit card interest payments to the trade value?

 

[mdomask]

Maybe it was ********, maybe it was not but there was some **** in the CCBE that posted 34 bottles of Rare.

Da ****?

I actually met that guy at DLD. He's... interesting.

 

[daniel1]

Maybe it was ********, maybe it was not but there was some **** in the CCBE that posted 34 bottles of Rare.

Da ****?

I actually met that guy at DLD. He's... interesting.

Is that the guy that owns a store? Last year there was a guy who posted a picture of cases stacked up in the back room and said something about owning a store has its benefits.

 

[daniel1]

I actually met that guy at DLD. He's... interesting.

Is that a nice of way saying he's a loser?

 

[mdomask]

Is that a nice of way saying he's a loser?

More that he had groupies with him... or something. Cult of personality type.

 

[capnmike]

Maybe it was ********, maybe it was not but there was some **** in the CCBE that posted 34 bottles of Rare.

Da ****?

I can sort of make out "mom" but "'s basement" seems to be cut off.

 

[sleuthdog]

I made these once

http://emptygrowler.com/2013/02/bourbon-county-stout-cupcakes-with-bourbon-icing/

I thought they turned out good but you can ask match1112 what he thought.

 

[match1112]

I made these once

http://emptygrowler.com/2013/02/bourbon-county-stout-cupcakes-with-bourbon-icing/

I thought they turned out good but you can ask match1112 what he thought.

I loved them



































almost as much as I love you

 

[adhdjon]

I run into quite a few smaller shop owners who now don't sell their special release allocations but rather keep if for personal trading purposes. I'm not kidding when I say I've met 3 different owners like this in the past few months. Rubs me the wrong way when you use your position as a store owner with a connection to a distributor to purchase rare beer at wholesale then use it as trade bait or worse sell it on Craigslist/MBC/secondary market.

#BeerTrading2015

This is a good argument for:

1) Brewery only releases

2) Increasing the MSRP so it more appropriately matches the secondary market

Regarding the latter, I'm genuinely curious to see how much Goose Island charges for the inevitable "omg we are brewing Rare again we found some lost barrels" next year.

Rare was really tasty this year, but I felt priced out at $65 a bottle. I can't imagine paying $200 for it, but it seems like some people will. Even $20 for coffee or $40 for Regal feels like a lot. It's like...22oz bombers of the variants were around $25 last year at MSRP.

The Chicago beer scene is nuts though. Is it like this anywhere else?

 

[Dunt1]

There is so much incredible beer out there. Why on earth do people wait out all night for a single bottle of it? Drink Fantome.

 

[IronDave]

There is so much incredible beer out there. Why on earth do people wait out all night for a single bottle of it? Drink Fantome.

No time to read . . . waiting in line at West Lakeview for DinoSmores.

 

[Tooch4321]

There is so much incredible beer out there. Why on earth do people wait out all night for a single bottle of it? Drink Fantome.

But they don't make variants...

 

[adhdjon]

No time to read . . . waiting in line at West Lakeview for DinoSmores.

something something vanilla

 

[danbanana]

But they don't make variants...

Coffee, yo. That was the only bottled version I've ever had the chance to buy!

It was okay!

 

[adhdjon]