Beer dudes, guess where I'll be at 11:30 (today).

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 10:10 AM

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Hello friends,
My name is Dave and I'm the online marketing manager for Victory and wanted to reply to a request from Bob Linneman on our Facebook wall to clear up the confusion about DI release time and pricing for Dark Intrigue here in this thread. I apologize for our part in the confusion, there was some internal miscommunication between our target price and actual price.

Here is the current pricing/info as I type this:
Our local Brewpub will be opening at 11:30am tomorrow at which point DI will be on sale in the retail shop. 750ml corked bottles of DI will retail for $15 plus tax and twelve bottle cases will retail for $120 plus tax. Customers are limited to one case per person. We will be tracking who purchases in order to ensure (as best we can) that one person doesn't come in and buy us clean out. DI is only available in 750ml bottles (no draft). We only have seventy odd cases here at the Brewpub and once they run out it's gone for good (or until we decide to brew again, which has not been decided).

DI has very limited distribution in Southeastern PA (Chester Co, Bucks Co, and Philadelphia Co) and Boston. We don't know exactly where it will be in retail shops as it went out to wholesalers today and will make its way to retailers in the next couple days.

Hopefully that answers questions and quiets some speculations. Again, we apologize for our part in any miscommunications. We'll work hard to make sure it doesn't happen again. If you're one of the fortunate few to get your hands on a bottle we'd love hear what you think. Drop us a note via Facebook or Twitter or good old fashioned e-mail (dspeers@victorybeer.com) and we'll definitely take it to heart. Thanks again for all your passion for great beer, you're the reason we exist.

Prost,
Dave

JawnDiablo - 11-24-2010 at 10:27 AM

tomorrow morning or today (wednesday)?

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 10:31 AM

today!
(edited for clarity!)

JawnDiablo - 11-24-2010 at 10:38 AM

I'm tempted

Vanilla Gorilla - 11-24-2010 at 11:49 AM

Storm King is great on its own, I can only imagine how good that would be. BD or Juan, if you buy a case and want to recoup some of the expense i'd buy a bottle or two if you don't mind mailing or I can send you something from down here, but your selection in general is probably much better up there.

Have you guys seen that new show about brewing i think its called American Brewers its on Discovery, about Dogfish Head brewery. I saw an episode and thought it was pretty good. It's more interesting to me to watch how they make beer, than watching a bunch of hipsters frost ridicilously priced cakes.

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 12:12 PM

Glad I got here early. 11:10 and I'm 48th in line. Sales better be efficient, I got places to be.

Dave - 11-24-2010 at 12:18 PM

.......BUY ME A BOTTLE! AND MAIL IT TO ME!!!

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 01:17 PM

Got it. More details later.

JawnDiablo - 11-24-2010 at 01:32 PM

I'll take my chances on my usual guy getting it in.
He usually always has all the updated hard to gets.....
http://townshiplinebeerandcigars.com/default.aspx

Jason the Magnificent - 11-24-2010 at 02:02 PM

I have something similar I'm doing Friday morning.

Goose Island has been doing the bourbon barrel aging thing on their stout for something around 5+ years now but the past year they've done some specials.

Bourbon County Coffee, which was the stout bourbon barrel aged with expresso beans...this was amazing.

Bourbon County Vanilla, which was aged with vanilla beans...again, amazing but t atotal clusterfuck getting it. It literally sold out across the entire Chicagoland area in half a day. There are a few out of the way spots here and there that somehow managed to get cases where you still might find them...but any of the bigger stores you had to have your name on a list to get the 2 bottle limit (and most stores were 1 bottle).

But Friday they're release Bourbon County Rare, which is aged in Pappy Van Winkle bourbon barrels. PVW is the #1 rated bourbon in the world. $45 a bomber...I'll be lined up @ 6am to hopefully get 1 bottle.

Jason the Magnificent - 11-24-2010 at 02:12 PM

IMO though nothing even comes close to the almighty CBS. Founders (Grand Rapids) Canadian breakfast Stout.

Their regular Breakfast Stout is a "double chocolate coffee oatmeal stout" I'd put it up against the best in the world. But bourbon barrel aged w/ maple syrup. It sounds like overload, but it's surreal.

You smell the chocolate and bourbon big time, but it goes down like nothing with hardly any bite for a 10%abv beer. and afterwards you get a faint taste of maple syrup and that little stickyness on you lips like you just had a bite of pancakes....really amazing.

Dave - 11-24-2010 at 02:39 PM

i'm so jealous........of all of you....

JawnDiablo - 11-24-2010 at 03:21 PM

christ almighty I'd love to try that......

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 06:33 PM

so, i really didn't expect this to the...scene that it was. beer dudes were in full effect today. yeah, i marked my calendar a couple months back when i first saw that video, but just so i'd remember to stop in and try it sometime. today, the reminder goes off, i look online to see if it's available, and that's when i saw the post above.

i had to pick my daughter up from school at 12:15.
(half day, 'wear your jammies to school' day, in fact.)
i rolled over at 11:10 and was 48th in line.
they opened the doors at 11:30.
i made my purchase at 12:03.
good thing school is only five minutes away. i think not picking your kid up from school because you were in line buying beer is frowned upon.

anyway, this shit sold the fuck out in under an hour. i was kind of surprised that victory wasn't keeping a running tally of people in line - there were easily another 50-60 people in line behind me that were not stoked.

below are pics of the spoils, the retail shop where the sales took place and part of the line of unstoked beer dudes.

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 06:40 PM

now for the really good news:
juan, gorilla, dave, jason, paulie...i'll get one to each of youz.

paul are you working next wednesday, 12/1?
i'll be in ny and can stop by the bar.
if so, lemme know when you get there.

JawnDiablo - 11-24-2010 at 08:30 PM

duuuuuuuude. you rule

Vanilla Gorilla - 11-24-2010 at 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
duuuuuuuude. you rule

newbreedbrian - 11-24-2010 at 08:44 PM

Is it too late for me to purchase one of these beauties off of you?

BDx13 - 11-24-2010 at 08:55 PM

brian, you're in, too. i had been thinking six were going to thorp board members, but spaced on my list above. sorry.

guys, any specific shipping techniques you're recommend? is a double box needed, or just a shit ton of bobble wrap and a strong-sided box?

newbreedbrian - 11-24-2010 at 09:28 PM

You rock man, thanks muchly. Bubble wrap, and pack tight with newspaper or something so it doesn't move around are the biggest things. I usually stuff some packing peanuts I saved from previous trades in there, but it's not necessary.

Jason the Magnificent - 11-24-2010 at 10:12 PM

ooooh =)

I'll have to dig out a good trade for this. I wish I could send you a Goose Island and go Chicago for Philly...but the GI stuff is retardedly hard to get your hands on...but I do have some other goodies....oh yes I do...

Jason the Magnificent - 11-24-2010 at 10:33 PM

though this seems like a kingly ransom...

REV.PAULIE - 11-25-2010 at 08:07 AM

I will be at work,and I cannot thank you enough!!! I get in at 930...I got your drinks,all night...Just tip,nicely...Thank You!!

REV.PAULIE - 11-25-2010 at 08:15 AM

Mo,I love me some good stout...I really gotta get back into my beers...I can't deny my bourbons...But,I miss being a pseudo beer snob...'Aint gonna lie...A stout aged in a boubon barrel is a "happy medium"...Friggin' barleywine season is here as well,if I'm not mistaken...Oh...I really need to get back into my ales...I've been neglecting so much craftsmanship...!

Dave - 11-25-2010 at 09:29 AM

Duane.......Holy Crap you rock!

JawnDiablo - 11-25-2010 at 09:48 AM

i haven't dove into barley wines just yet with the exception of Bigfoot Ale.
what are some good ones yous can recommend?

Dave - 11-25-2010 at 11:07 AM

That is a pretty tasty Barley Wine.

Horn Dog, is a pretty good one.

We have a local Brewery that makes a pretty decent one as well.

Vanilla Gorilla - 11-25-2010 at 11:24 AM

I am a big fan of Stone Brewing Old Guardian and Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, and Victory old horizontal is pretty good, all are American Style Barley Wines which i guess makes them a little hoppier than English Style Barley wines.

For English Style my favorites are Anchor Old Foghorn, Weyerbacher Insanity and/or Blithering Idiot, and Alesmith old Numbskull

newbreedbrian - 11-25-2010 at 02:57 PM

Hard to go wrong with a Thomas Hardy's.....

JawnDiablo - 11-25-2010 at 03:06 PM

anyone get one of them Bitches Brews Dogfish put out?

Dave - 11-25-2010 at 03:23 PM

yup, that shit is tasty.

BDx13 - 11-29-2010 at 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
I will be at work,and I cannot thank you enough!!! I get in at 930...I got your drinks,all night...Just tip,nicely...Thank You!!

Paul, I'll be at the bar this Wednesday at 9:30. Probably take a rain check on the drinks, though - I gotta be at work at 6:30 Thursday morning!

BDx13 - 12-20-2010 at 12:23 AM

Jason, VG, Dave/Brian... u2u me your shipping address.

Quinn... we live close enough that it seems we should be able to meet up for delivery. rendezvous at jimmy johns or that bbq joint? but if you insist, i'll mail it.

JawnDiablo - 12-20-2010 at 09:43 PM

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Originally posted by BD
Jason, VG, Dave/Brian... u2u me your shipping address.

Quinn... we live close enough that it seems we should be able to meet up for delivery. rendezvous at jimmy johns or that bbq joint? but if you insist, i'll mail it.

somehow I missed this.
yeah man I'm down for some pork.............
that came out wrong.
yeah after Christmas.
I'm without a car this week anyway...argh

BDx13 - 12-20-2010 at 11:25 PM

word.

GORILLA... hit me up!

BDx13 - 8-3-2011 at 04:25 PM

Follow the link, read the first Q&A:
http://victorybeer.com/blog/questions2/

Vanilla Gorilla - 8-3-2011 at 04:30 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BDx13

word.

GORILLA... hit me up!

Holy shit I somehow totally missed this.

I just got all my homebrew/kegging stuff in the mail along with my collection of various beer glasses. Should be a good fall.

JawnDiablo - 8-3-2011 at 06:15 PM

with all my personal turmoil last December i totally forgot about this.
i never had v12 yet.
im a major fan of Baltic thunder.
i need to get out there one Saturday afternoon

BDx13 - 8-3-2011 at 11:16 PM

call me, quinn, let's make it happen!

Dark Wednesday

BDx13 - 8-16-2011 at 05:46 PM

http://downingtowndish.com/2011/08/victory-dark-intrigue-rel...

Last year, on Thanksgiving eve, beer fanatics flocked to Victory Brewing Company, in hopes to score a case of the brewery first-ever bourbon barrel-aged beer, Dark Intrigue. Only 80 cases were available for purchase, at a limit of one case per customer—an amount that quickly sold-out in less than 45 minutes.

But, lucky for fans of last year’s batch or for folks who were unable to even grab a big bottle or two, Victory’s reproducing the beer for their 2011 season, and currently a batch of the signature Storm King Stout is waiting in oak bourbon barrels, slowly aging and picking up flavors of bourbon, vanilla, oak and spices.

Dark Intrigue will continue to age in barrels from Jim Beam and Heaven Hill Distilleries until October, when the contents of 150 bourbon barrels will be blended together, packaged in 750 mL corked bottles and left to condition in the bottle until November. It will be released to the public on Wednesday, Nov. 23, a day they are calling Dark Wednesday.

“Having never delved into a bourbon barrel aged offering before, we were tentative with our beloved Storm King in terms of how much of it we subjected to the treatment,” Victory Brewing Company President and Co-Owner Bill Covaleski said. “Our audience clearly approved of this delicious creation last year so we have lots more in production now.”

This year, Victory expects to have 3000 cases for sale (many more than last year), which will be available at their retail shop and in limited quantities at distributors in the region.

Dark Intrigue is made up of a variety of malts, along with American centennial, cascade and Amarillo hops. It is 9.2% alcohol by volume. For a full report of last year’s behind-the-scenes tasting, click here. Visit victorybeer.com for more information.