Let's Remember Some Beers (In Memoriam: Old Whales)

[KevSal]

$55 a bottle?

surprisingly the cheapest i’ve seen it at all. $23 lol

 

[AndresR]

turd’n...?

Mollies?

 

[KevSal]

Mollies?

actually bevmo sf bayshore

 

[Saind]

CBS is in 4-packs but for export only - saw it on shelf at about £7 for a single 12oz in the UK, which is a fair price ($8.50?)

Singles are around €8 here. KBS is slightly cheaper and turds it up all over the country

 

[KevSal]

it’s way over priced for one. how can it be $26+ next to better half and backwoods for much less.

 

[AndresR]

I paid $16 for a 4pk of better half.

 

[KevSal]

turd’n...?

confirmed turd’s

 

[steimie]

confirmed turd’s

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

 

[Dbijnagte]

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

I only see 2 bottles of vanilla there.

 

[NeedsMoreDog]

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

here, the variants are gone within the day. but original sits forever. a few weeks ago I picked up 2017 for $7.77 a piece. another place around the same time had 2015-17 BCBS and I think 2016 BCBBW. probably still there.

 

[KevSal]

I only see 2 bottles of vanilla there.

crappy photo as i was in a rush to get back to work, but its sitting on 2 sealed boxes of vanilla

 

[MikeG1]

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

BCBS 2016 and 2017 just sitting around in my neighborhood for $10 each still.

 

[stupac2]

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

If it makes you feel better the east bay, mere miles away from KevSal, gets virtually no variants. Or at least does historically, I haven't bothered looking since everything was so garbage last year. But I think it's the same story this year, all of it goes to SF and San Jose, nothing for Oakland.

BTW, KevSal, if you find any Bramble on during your BCBS tour, schwartzoid wants one.

 

[matedog]

If it makes you feel better the east bay, mere miles away from KevSal, gets virtually no variants. Or at least does historically, I haven't bothered looking since everything was so garbage last year. But I think it's the same story this year, all of it goes to SF and San Jose, nothing for Oakland.

BTW, KevSal, if you find any Bramble on during your BCBS tour, schwartzoid wants one.

Was actually going to post in the Bay Area thread about what showed up where (since I'm always out of town for Black Friday). I went to Beer Rev and Trappist on Saturday and there was no trace of any Bourbon County. I was expecting at least something from Beer Rev since they hosted that Migration Week a few years ago.

 

[falc0n26001]

The bar I work at didn’t get any draft BCBS last year, just two cases of regular. We sell a lot of beer but we “didn’t sell enough Goose Island” according to our distributor. We bought what we could of Sofie and the sour beers and this year we received one keg and no bottles. Whatever. I stopped drinking it a few years ago after we started getting Fremont, which is better, more available, and not owned by Budweiser.

 

[arren]

For those of you who have BCBS just sitting around, will it sit there for days? Months? Will it be there next year when the 2019 arrives? I know this is hijacking the thread a bit, but whatever. I'm just curious, because we get almost no BCBS around Detroit and yet there's lots of places that seem to get way more than they really need. This always puzzled me and I've never understood why GI continues to distribute it that way.

If those Nillas were put out at that price here, they'd be gone in minutes, even at that price. I know a store near me in suburban Detroit that has last year's regular BCBS on shelf for $20. The only reason it's there is that no one knows about the store. Guaranteed if I posted that on BA, they'd be gone in no time.

One of my buddies texted me over the summer saying there were still bottles of 2017 at his local supermarket - right about the same time I found my local Costco selling cases of it.

The distro is wonky as **** and you get these weird pockets of BCBS turding it up primarily because of the AB-InBev connection. I'm fairly sure the actual amount of allocations depends on how much AB-InBev beer you sell. Most places who sell macro beer at a high volume don't really put priority on the whole "this beer needs to be out on Black Friday" - and their normal clientele aren't exactly asking them if they have any in stock, resulting in a lot of it just sitting in the back storeroom untouched and overlooked.

Last year, a bunch of local supermarkets got decent allocations of BCBS to be sellable that Friday, but didn't bother to put them out until later the next week - and by that time, the "BCBS hunters" have already assumed that everyone who has received allocations has already well sold out of them.

It's why I'm not really stressing about finding any variants ASAP - stock is looking thin right now across town, but I don't doubt that there will be plenty still on shelves weeks or even months from now.

 

[KevSal]

If it makes you feel better the east bay, mere miles away from KevSal, gets virtually no variants. Or at least does historically, I haven't bothered looking since everything was so garbage last year. But I think it's the same story this year, all of it goes to SF and San Jose, nothing for Oakland.

BTW, KevSal, if you find any Bramble on during your BCBS tour, schwartzoid wants one.

yup thats over here too, but i dunno if i would be doing you a favor or not, after the 1st 2 ounces its awful

 

[arren]

after the 1st 2 ounces its awful

ah, the classic "midwest bottleshare" beer

 

[JonathanAmes]

My liquor store has leftover BCBS from last year but that's a rarity in this town. I think it has more to do with no beer nerds knowing they carry anything desirable then them receiving a substantial amount. They've had all four -tion beers for years turding it up in the cooler.

 

[stupac2]

yup thats over here too, but i dunno if i would be doing you a favor or not, after the 1st 2 ounces its awful

I mean I thought the original Bramble was medicore, but I don't want it, schwartzoid does, and there's no accounting for taste!

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Are we really talking about new bottles of BCBS in the old whales thread? For shame.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Are we really talking about new bottles of BCBS in the old whales thread? For shame.

Got to keep trade values up.

 

[stupac2]

I mean I thought the original Bramble was medicore, but I don't want it, schwartzoid does, and there's no accounting for taste!

Update: the new batch is also mediocre. Didn't like vanilla. Loved the wheatwine. YMMV.

 

[boogercrack]

Update: the new batch is also mediocre. Didn't like vanilla. Loved the wheatwine. YMMV.

ha, around here i've seen some flippers trying to offload wheatwine below msrp

 

[brian4beer]

Update: the new batch is also mediocre. Didn't like vanilla. Loved the wheatwine. YMMV.

What did you not like about the vanilla and have you liked it the two times prior? That was always my fav variant but have not tried the recent.

 

[stupac2]

ha, around here i've seen some flippers trying to offload wheatwine below msrp

Yeah matedog offered to grab me some and I was like "eh a bottle should be fine". Then he said it was $16 and I was like "awww yeah."

What did you not like about the vanilla and have you liked it the two times prior? That was always my fav variant but have not tried the recent.

Just tasted fake, not much depth, the base stout seems kinda weak this year. I also might be getting kinda over stouts because we had a Fundamental Observation right after it that I also thought was just fine. In fact I can't remember the last non-Eclipse stout I've had that really impressed me. Hence the YMMV, it's probably fine. I think some of the other people were comparing it favorably to Vanilla Rye (blabaer could confirm).

 

[blabaer]

Yeah matedog offered to grab me some and I was like "I think some of the other people were comparing it favorably to Vanilla Rye (blabaer could confirm).

I can’t comment, since I never bothered to track down Vanilla Rye, but I agree that neither the BCV or the FO were impressive, though I enjoyed them both more than you did. The last stouts that I was really impressed by were Monsters Park variants. Super underrated beers.

 

[matedog]

I can’t comment, since I never bothered to track down Vanilla Rye, but I agree that neither the BCV or the FO were impressive, though I enjoyed them both more than you did. The last stouts that I was really impressed by were Monsters Park variants. Super underrated beers.

I'm not the biggest stout head in general, so my experience may be more limited, but I did have 2010 and 2014 once, side by side. 2010 was cake batter with subdued but noticeable vanilla. 2014 was a vanilla bomb. Both were delicious and I'm sure 2010 vanilla was more prominent when it was four years old too.

2018 was not unlike the 2014 experience in that the vanilla was in your face. In some sense, it was nice since nearly every other vanilla stout I've had in my life has barely to non-perceptible vanilla (probably because vanilla is expensive AF). Something could be said for better integration with the base beer, but maybe that'll happen in time. I also still haven't tried base BCBS this year so I don't know how it compares with previous years, but it is generally consistent at least to my novice stout tastes.

Wheatwine was the highlight for me. Toffee caramel goodness. Bramble was a little too fruit forward. The fruit should mellow like other fruited BCBS I've had in the past. Not something I'd seek out.

Haven't tried the like four other versions and don't really care. Except maybe coffee barleywine.

 

[mjohnson171]

Anyone have a line on a Hanssens Mead the Gueuze?

 

[SeaWatchman]

Anyone have a line on a Hanssens Mead the Gueuze?

Literally just opened my last one just a few months ago.