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
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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.
Well I've got a feeling I'm gonna get mine in. Retribution let the games begin.
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.
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.
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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
Is it too late for me to purchase one of these beauties off of you?
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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...
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...!
Will learn to Tap Dance,eventually...Will have you broads Hula,definitely...Trust me,you'll see.
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