The Alchemist will be releasing two new canned beers on the 15th. From their blog:
Greetings Alchemist faithful!
It is time to announce our first can release outside of the brewery! As we mentioned in our last blog, we are releasing a couple of beers in cans during a one day sale. First and foremost, we want to make this as smooth as possible for everyone. We will begin selling beer at 11 am. We will be canning 15 barrels of both Focal Banger and Petit Mutant, but an exact yield will not be known until next Thursday. When we can it next week, we will release a more accurate number. The location we have selected has a sufficient amount of parking, and room for lines to form. There is a single port-o-let on site. It will most likely be cold, and this is an outdoor sale, so please dress accordingly. Once the sale begins, we will do our very best to move things along as quickly as possible. If all goes well in this spot, we hope to have more of these pop-up sales in the very near future.
Here are the details:
Specialty Beer Release
Saturday, February 15
11am-3pm (or until it’s gone.)
at Pilgrim Park and Railroad Street in Waterbury
(the old station lumber site; next to the train station)
Focal Banger- an American IPA , hopped judiciously with Citra and Mosaic, 7% abv
$12.50/4-pack- inclusive of state tax ($11.80 + 6% tax)
$75/case- inclusive of state tax ($70.75 + 6% tax)
Petit Mutant- an American Brett ale fermented entirely with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis;
this rustic ale contains almost a pound of Montmorency cherries in each 16 ounce can.
$6/ sixteen ounce can inclusive of tax ($5.65 + 6% tax)
For more information about these beers click here.
SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
1. We will not have credit card machines available. Therefore, this is a CASH ONLY sale. There is a People’s United Bank about 100 yards away.
2. Please be thoughtful when parking your car. We will have someone helping with traffic control and proper parking. We need everyone to park nice and tight and orderly. Please drive slowly and be patient with us and your fellow beer loving friends.
3. We will be limiting people to ONE case of each beer. The Petit Mutant is priced for single cans at $6, but you are certainly welcome to buy four packs($24) and cases($144). These prices are inclusive of Vermont tax.
With that said, if you get back in line, at the end of the line, you can buy more cases. We do this for only one reason, we need to plan for the possibility that we will not have sufficient turnout to sell all of the beer. Past experience tells us that this probably won’t happen, but we must plan for it.
We will also be raising $ for the Vermont Foodbank. We have printed 200 Petit Mutant posters designed by our in-house artist, Jess Graham. A suggested donation of $5 will go to the Foodbank for each poster- The Alchemist will match all money raised. If 200 people each donate $5 for a poster, together we will raise $2,000 for the Foodbank.
Let’s see how much we can raise!
We will be trying to bring the local watering holes into this picture by making sure that our local draft accounts have at least one keg of Focal Banger available on tap at opening. It will be available at The Reservoir, Arvad’s, Prohibition Pig, Blackback and Blue Stone. They all serve lunch that day, and all have wonderful and varied draft lists.