FIB War Room

[RedCoffee]

Any chance you guys could calculate the financial impact of what this Bourbon County Coffee fiasco could cost them?

Doesn't that depend entirely on whether or not this can be spun as a feature instead of a bug?

 

[middlebrow]

Fiasco?

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Fiasco?

lots of talk of Coffee being infected...

 

[Ferowcious]

I was staunchly under the idea that infected BCBCS was a massive troll job but i've got close friends who opened tart bottles in the last week so I think it's gaining steam.

Shocking if its true. Probably going to be the most widely distributed, infected beer if it turns out to be.

Someone started a spread sheet to track bottles

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...IFBFRtLKr8/htmlview?usp=docslist_api&sle=true

 

[furley]

guys, all Goose Island beer went to **** the second they were bought by AB. spontaneous transmogrification in the bottles and everything.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Invited people over for NYE, drank nog, MSU got skunked, got ******. story of ,y life.

 

[hannydawg]

got ******

fear025 should be happy

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

lots of talk of Coffee being infected...

Opened one last night. It was rotten cherries.

 

[Tooch4321]

Longman had 2013 BCS on draft last night, I drank whisky. Have at it, nerds...

 

[Lansman]

Someone started a spread sheet to track bottles

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...IFBFRtLKr8/htmlview?usp=docslist_api&sle=true

"Tasted like when I licked my infected wound" LOL.

 

[Scalzo]

I got banned from CCBE a while ago. Didn't get the memo that you weren't allowed to use the term newmoney.

Thats not why they banned you.

Julian, please.

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Longman had 2013 BCS on draft last night, I drank whisky. Have at it, nerds...

if I was there I'd be drinking Gin so yeah, have at it...

 

[lb304854]

When 1090 shut down and started moving. I imagine we'll be using both and maybe a third spot too in 2016. it kinda sucks driving all over but rich uncles refuse to die and Chicago real estate & laws suck for the lil dudes. If all else fails by end of 2016, were gonna open a little craft beer bar in the city and brew in the boonies.

TONS of quality real estate in your homegurl's home town and the neighboring **** holes.

lots of talk of Coffee being infected...

Opened one on Wednesday night that was ******* delicious. Better than in years past.

 

[mjohnson171]

Infected BCBCS?!?!? Welp, that would suck. Maybe it will teach people to drink that beer fresh. All the bottles I opened in the first few weeks from release were fantastic. It's a shame people might not have experienced that mouthgasm. This year's coffee was the best in years (IMO).

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Instead of standing in line for BCBCS this year, I am just making Coffee BBPt5 at home. It is alright.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Invited people over for NYE, drank nog, MSU got skunked, got ******. story of ,y life.

This post brought to you by egg nog. Oh, and a negroni.

 

[YellowBird1]

Slightly tart strawberry jam with lots of milk chocolate. Completely different experience compared to the bottle I opened on Black Friday, which was from the same case. Still tasty at this point, but I could see this turning south quick.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Slightly tart strawberry jam with lots of milk chocolate. Completely different experience compared to the bottle I opened on Black Friday, which was from the same case. Still tasty at this point, but I could see this turning south quick.

Bourbon County Strawberry Jam Brand Stout.

 

[mjohnson171]

I blame GI for bottling a coffee stout on 9/17, then not releasing it for 2 months. Other BCBS variants were bottled in October and November, why bottle a coffee stout so early then sit on it?

 

[RedCoffee]

I blame GI for bottling a coffee stout on 9/17, then not releasing it for 2 months. Other BCBS variants were bottled in October and November, why bottle a coffee stout so early then sit on it?

They didn't put that step in the documentary?

 

[BobCobb1]

They didn't put that step in the documentary?

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I blame GI for bottling a coffee stout on 9/17, then not releasing it for 2 months. Other BCBS variants were bottled in October and November, why bottle a coffee stout so early then sit on it?

Wouldn't this be more of a thing if the issue were just faded coffee flavor, as opposed to infection? Even then, since they do the cold brew cocktail thing, does bottling date actually matter? Compared to actually aging the beer on coffee beans or something that obviously remain in barrel upon bottling.

 

[RedCoffee]

To stop joking around for a minute, if Bourbon County Coffee is indeed infected then I will be way less likely to chase variants in the future (even after the current all-time-low interest now that someone pointed out that they're pretty much just cocktails now).

BCBS gets a pass from me on all of this board room branding effort malarkey, the price increase, the increased difficulty of getting it, etc. because it is nearly universally deliciously on point. You're spending a lot and putting in a lot of effort, but this product is a very safe bet - it will be good and worth the money. Or... it was.

You tell me that now I have to worry about their big fancy warehouse having QC issues and that sure bet it looking a lot less sure.

 

[Lansman]

I am currently sitting at a bar in Seattle that has been selling Rare to go for the last ten days for $85 each. Over that time, they have sold three bottles.

#ChicagoBeerSceneFTW

 

[lb304854]

I blame GI for bottling a coffee stout on 9/17, then not releasing it for 2 months. Other BCBS variants were bottled in October and November, why bottle a coffee stout so early then sit on it?

I remember complaining about this in 2012, when the one day only Black Friday nonsense first started. Remember getting King Henry and Bourbon County in September and variants releasing when they were ******* ready? What was wrong with that?

Black Friday is ******* dumb and everyone involved in the decision to release all Bourbon County on Black Friday is an *******. The decision to turn BCS into a one day a year thing is a watershed moment on the road to the current Chicago beer shitshow.

Thanks, *********.

 

[LSMroz]

I remember complaining about this in 2012, when the one day only Black Friday nonsense first started. Remember getting King Henry and Bourbon County in September and variants releasing when they were ******* ready? What was wrong with that?

Black Friday is ******* dumb and everyone involved in the decision to release all Bourbon County on Black Friday is an *******. The decision to turn BCS into a one day a year thing is a watershed moment on the road to the current Chicago beer shitshow.

Thanks, *********.

But, like how do you really feel?

 

[Scalzo]

#blackfridaylivesmatter

 

[Mugatu]

They didn't put that step in the documentary?

Stay Tuned, they haven't released all the chapters yet... I think they'll turn it into a series akin to the Star Wars franchise.

 

[furley]

To stop joking around for a minute, if Bourbon County Coffee is indeed infected then I will be way less likely to chase variants in the future (even after the current all-time-low interest now that someone pointed out that they're pretty much just cocktails now).

BCBS gets a pass from me on all of this board room branding effort malarkey, the price increase, the increased difficulty of getting it, etc. because it is nearly universally deliciously on point. You're spending a lot and putting in a lot of effort, but this product is a very safe bet - it will be good and worth the money. Or... it was.

You tell me that now I have to worry about their big fancy warehouse having QC issues and that sure bet it looking a lot less sure.

the one thing i think everyone can agree on that Miller, AB, etc. do better than anyone is make consistent product. their QC is beyond reproach.

why, if they are involved here, would the beer quality fall off.. instantly?

if Goose had it dialed in for years, consistently making un-infected, delicious, widely respected beer.. why would AB come in and tank it? if they are going to bring anything to the table it will be the ability to make every batch exactly the same as the one before it.

well, that and marketing with a huge budget

 

[user 306237]

LP Binnys is offering a BCS flight @$15 - '13 barley wine, '14 vanilla rye & '15 regular (4 oz. each).

 

[daniel1]

LP Binnys is offering a BCS flight @$15 - '13 barley wine, '14 vanilla rye & '15 regular (4 oz. each).

Can I trade it?