OT: Slow Morning Question: Best Way to Locate Rare Beer?
Slow morning so I thought I'd seek out some help. Long story short I'm looking to find some Pliny the Elder in the Denver area (via store, not restaurant). I have the Untappd and Taphunter apps but feel like it's still a crap shoot trying to locate some.
Does anyone have any better suggestions on how to find rare beers?
December 6th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
Meijer even frequently has Boss Tweed, which is superior.
December 7th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
If anyone can find a way to get Brains (from Cardiff) stateside, I'll name my next kid after you!
December 6th, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
Get some Saugatuck Starburst Wheat. It tastes like the offspring of IPA and wheat beers.
December 6th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
I wish I could understand the current obsession with beer. Do I really need 300 choices when I go to the store?
December 6th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
No, but it's more fun this way. If it bothers you that badly, just keep buying the stuff you like, problem solved.
Going on the Coors brewery tour was educational in seeing how long it took different parts of the country to even get different varieties of lager/pilsners. I much prefer this current choice overload to being excited when I could finally buy Coors.
December 6th, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^
It doesn't bother me as I rarely drink anymore. It's just odd to me.
I think we're given too many choices now. In everything, not just beer.
December 6th, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
I’ve gotten bottles of Pliny at Argonauts numerous times but it’s been a year or so. I follow them on twitter and they tweet out when they have it...you can only get 2 per person and if I remember correctly it’s usually a Thursday or a Friday and they’re gone in a few hours or so.
December 6th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
a dog named Alex might help
December 6th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
You should road trip it out here to Vermont, where the Heady Topper and Hill Farmstead flow like wine.
December 6th, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
Current screenshot... an ad for a flask, in a beer thread, depicting a bikini, next to Hatter. Ha!
December 6th, 2018 at 1:04 PM ^
I'll be honest; I recoil at this sort of thing. It's an annoying game that breweries play and I refuse to participate.
"ZOMG (this or particular beer or that particular beer) is so amazing!!! Too bad they only brew precisely 725 milliliters per year!"
Truth is that at least 75% of the people who ever try said "amazing" beer don't even like it; they just like that they got something "limited". It's all falsely manufactured demand by intentionally low supply and it's just silly. I'm not paying $1 or more per ounce for CBS or Pliny the Elder or any stupid beer when there's plenty of great beers out there with good distribution.
December 6th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
www.rarebeer.com?