my initial post was much longer explaining that what you referenced as me being selfish as not being the reason for my comment. I'm referencing time and time again Hill Farmstead raising issue with the long lines, bottle release madness and specifically they reference locals being locked out of these releases because we don't have the time to get in line at 8AM on a Wednesday. That's me included. I have a job and would get there @ 4:30 on a Wednesday if I leave early enough.
I'm not saying out of staters aren't welcome. I'm saying HFS says "locals can't get our beer....and releases are madness" and then they turn around and promote a new bottle coming out and get everyone excited. Two photos of this beer posted online reached 10-20 thousand people. Look @ HFS' twitter & Facebook followings. Thousands of people saw those photos. Art going on sale will be madness and it could be a single barrel release. no one knows.
I go up to HFS once every 2 weeks at the most. It's likely I won't go up this week which means missing Art if it comes out. If it just appeared on the shelf, it would at least last until next Wednesday so that I could arrange my time to go up and get a single bottle of it.
I've missed a few HFS beer releases this year, the single barrel CDs, Bliss of Absence and had to trade locally to get them because they'd go on sale Wednesday and be gone by Saturday. I'm not blaming HSF for that but those were mostly silent releases. I've had Art before and loved it but with the promotion I'm seeing around it, I might avoid HFS entirely A) because I don't want to wait in line for 4 hours and B) so someone else who hasn't had it will have the chance. I'll get to try a sip of it at a local tasting eventually so it's not that big of a deal.
See now why I shortened my last post? I tend to be a little long-winded and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding in my last post.
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