flatfour64
Well-Known Member
At long last, I have laid my hands on two bottles of Pliny the Elder.
My wife was in California last week and was able to nab this elusive beast. I had called around out there and a few specialty shops said they did not receive thier shipment that week, and were all out. I was fearing that this trip would leave me empty handed yet again. Then, one helpful shop keep understood my plight for Pliny.
You see, I live in the northeast and this beer is just not available to me. I was in Philly last year and tried to get a pint at several tap rooms that carried it, but it just so happened they were out when I was there. I had arranged a swap with a friend of mine out in CA, but when he learned how good it was and how hard it was to get, well, I guess that is as far as our friendship went. I brewed the 6 gallon homebrew version put out by Vinny at RR, and it was the best IIPA I had ever made at the time. This only intensified my desire to try the real thing.
So this helpful shop keep told me that the Whole Foods down the road usually has it in stock because they don't put it on the shelf, you have to ask for it by name. However, he says, they have a strict one per customer policy. So my wife goes in there and was able to sweet talk her way into buying two of the six they had in stock!!! I'm not sure what she did in that back room... but thank you my dear!
Last night when she got home, she pulled a paper bag from her luggage with two well wrapped bottles in it. I opened the top of the bag and saw two caps the read Russian River.... chills I tell you, chills. What a fine looking bottle it is, like artwork. I placed them into the fridge and will drink one tonight after work... at long last.
I would offer to sell one of the bottles to someone out here on the east coast, but that is just not going to happen! Anyone else share in my plight?
My wife was in California last week and was able to nab this elusive beast. I had called around out there and a few specialty shops said they did not receive thier shipment that week, and were all out. I was fearing that this trip would leave me empty handed yet again. Then, one helpful shop keep understood my plight for Pliny.
You see, I live in the northeast and this beer is just not available to me. I was in Philly last year and tried to get a pint at several tap rooms that carried it, but it just so happened they were out when I was there. I had arranged a swap with a friend of mine out in CA, but when he learned how good it was and how hard it was to get, well, I guess that is as far as our friendship went. I brewed the 6 gallon homebrew version put out by Vinny at RR, and it was the best IIPA I had ever made at the time. This only intensified my desire to try the real thing.
So this helpful shop keep told me that the Whole Foods down the road usually has it in stock because they don't put it on the shelf, you have to ask for it by name. However, he says, they have a strict one per customer policy. So my wife goes in there and was able to sweet talk her way into buying two of the six they had in stock!!! I'm not sure what she did in that back room... but thank you my dear!
Last night when she got home, she pulled a paper bag from her luggage with two well wrapped bottles in it. I opened the top of the bag and saw two caps the read Russian River.... chills I tell you, chills. What a fine looking bottle it is, like artwork. I placed them into the fridge and will drink one tonight after work... at long last.
I would offer to sell one of the bottles to someone out here on the east coast, but that is just not going to happen! Anyone else share in my plight?
we have great mexican food but the pizza scene sucks. Maybe I should move to CT
