I'd be mighty grateful if one of those bottles managed to make it's way to Jersey.

For fuck's sake.  

OK, I will buy every bottle I can find and let the chips fall where they may...

You people are peaches

Indy/Chicago/Midwest peeps, please:

 

Next week, Founders will release their KBS stout. I would love 12+ bottles. No need to get them to me stat, just get em stored. I am good for the cost. + beers. It may go fast, and may be allocated to a small number of bottles, but should not be too tough to gather the bottles.

Thanks

I managed to get a ticket to the KBS release at the brewery going on this week.  I have a friend in Grand Rapids who's picking up my 12 bottle allotment today. I might not get the beer for a couple months and then I have to share with some other folks BUT if you guys don't have any luck I'll try to reserve a bottle for the beer mile, Jersey and Tennessee (sorry Trent you can't have all 12 of my bottles).

I don't expect this beer to be easy to find in Chicago (or Indy) as the craft beer hounds will be standing in lines outside of Binny's waiting for this and I'm sure there will be a bottle limit everywhere.  If it's anything like Bell's Black Note, I'll be lucky to even see it.

Is it getting more common for there to be a big to-do, people waiting in lines, etc. for craft beer releases? I love seeing good beer get the attention it deserves, but I can also see where this can cross the line pretty fast into a fad.

+1.  Just as I enjoy ho-hum pudunk local races more than the big city races these days, I am not going to make a routine about moving heaven and earth for beer.

Is it getting more common for there to be a big to-do, people waiting in lines, etc. for craft beer releases? I love seeing good beer get the attention it deserves, but I can also see where this can cross the line pretty fast into a fad.

It's becoming a little more prevalent, yeah.  What I can say is that once a brewery does a few of these release events they get better at them.  I went to one at Weyerbacher a while back and it was a fiasco.  There were more people that they could handle and they were not prepared for it.  Since then their events have been well managed and enjoyable.

I do have my limits on what I will go through to get one particular beer.  IMO there are just too many good beers that are readily available to make one beer all that special.

Seriously though - when is the market saturated with small craft brewers. Or is this a party that will never end.

I'm not sure I'd want to get in a saturated market as a brewer but it sure doesn't seem to be a problem as the consumer. Party on!

 Any suggestions for other rye/pale ales worth seeking?

This.

Or this.

Both are yummy ryes.

Just what I need, another beer to search for.

 

http://mybeerbuzz.blogspot.com/2013/03/stone-espresso-imperial-russian-stout.html

http://beerpulse.com/2013/03/stone-espresso-imperial-russian-stout-debuts-on-april-15th-091