Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:27 am**

The word on the street is that John's Grocery is releasing BCBS on Tuesday the 4th around 4:42 pm. Line starts at 4 pm, and they are asking that people park in nearby public lots and not their parking lot (which is VERY small anyway). Limit 1 4-pack per person. I'm sure everywhere else is getting this release too, so shy should you care? Every person buying a 4-pack will be entered into a raffle being held at 5:30 in the parking lot for one each of the following:

BCS Coffee
BCS Cherry Rye (going to be extremely rare I hear)
Night Stalker
Stone Vertical Epic 12.12.12

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:20 pm**

Benz will have the BCS on Tuesday, also.

Matt warned us at the Friday night tasting that he only got a very small amount of the one-offs (Coffee, Cherry and Night Stalker).

If you're not there when they open, you'll probably lose out on those.

Matt wanted to hold them back for preferred customers, but the distributor wants them out for public buying, which will take all of 15 minutes to sell out, which is exactly what they want to happen, so they can lobby for more next year.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:09 am**

BCS 4-packs are already selling at the Blairs Ferry and Center Point HyVee Drug. I just picked up a 4-pack for $20.99. No line, no wait. They do not have any of the special releases though. Didn't look like they had much so get it while you can.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:46 am**

Sounds like Benz is raffling an opportunity to buy the Cherry Rye, which is the only one I am really interested in.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:51 am**

Benz is release is at 11 am. I plan to be there to get my name in the raffle.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:37 pm**

I wonder how you become a "preferred customer"?

tony b wrote:Benz will have the BCS on Tuesday, also.

Matt warned us at the Friday night tasting that he only got a very small amount of the one-offs (Coffee, Cherry and Night Stalker).

If you're not there when they open, you'll probably lose out on those.

Matt wanted to hold them back for preferred customers, but the distributor wants them out for public buying, which will take all of 15 minutes to sell out, which is exactly what they want to happen, so they can lobby for more next year.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:06 pm**

Blairs Ferry is sold out of BCS already… I don’t have time to try anywhere else until after work…

From: Matt F [mailto:brew-events@crbeernuts.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:10 AM
To: brew-events@crbeernuts.org
Subject: Re: Bourbon County release at John's Grocery.

BCS 4-packs are already selling at the Blairs Ferry and Center Point HyVee Drug. I just picked up a 4-pack for $20.99. No line, no wait. They do not have any of the special releases though. Didn't look like they had much so get it while you can.

Matt Franklin
Slappy Brewing North

On Tap:
Over The Line IPA
Hefeweizen
Funk You Very Much Belgian Sour
Bourbon Barrel Aged Up in Smoke Imperial Porter

Ferementing/Aging:
Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin
Concecration Clone

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Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:11 pm**

HyVee on Oakland said they aren't releasing it until 4pm.

On 12/04/2012 01:08 PM, JimF wrote:

Blairs Ferry is sold out of BCS already… I don’t have time to try anywhere else until after work…

From: Matt F [mailto:brew-events@crbeernuts.org (brew-events@crbeernuts.org)]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:10 AM
To: brew-events@crbeernuts.org (brew-events@crbeernuts.org)
Subject: Re: Bourbon County release at John's Grocery.

BCS 4-packs are already selling at the Blairs Ferry and Center Point HyVee Drug. I just picked up a 4-pack for $20.99. No line, no wait. They do not have any of the special releases though. Didn't look like they had much so get it while you can.

Matt Franklin
Slappy Brewing North

On Tap:
Over The Line IPA
Hefeweizen
Funk You Very Much Belgian Sour
Bourbon Barrel Aged Up in Smoke Imperial Porter

Ferementing/Aging:
Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin
Concecration Clone

Jim Fuller

Life is good, when the beer is too...

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Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:22 pm**

CMLarrison wrote:I wonder how you become a "preferred customer"?

tony b wrote:Benz will have the BCS on Tuesday, also.

Matt warned us at the Friday night tasting that he only got a very small amount of the one-offs (Coffee, Cherry and Night Stalker).

If you're not there when they open, you'll probably lose out on those.

Matt wanted to hold them back for preferred customers, but the distributor wants them out for public buying, which will take all of 15 minutes to sell out, which is exactly what they want to happen, so they can lobby for more next year.

Spend a ton of cash there. I rarely make it to John's anymore. Always a favorite but the folks in CR are doing a nice job these days. I still stop there if I am in IC.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:23 pm**

Wait, you are talking about Benz, not John's. My bad.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:34 pm**

Same answer applies. Money talks!

But, Matt does take care of the Beer Nuts, too. He'd rather sell these kinds of beers to folks that actually appreciated them, over folks just buying them because they are hard to get (especially turning around and flipping them on ebay!)

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:02 pm**

No doubt Matt has been really good to the Beer Nuts. Definately like working with the folks at Benz. That is why I still like to go to Benz when I get the chance. And the ebay thing is crap. Anybody out there score the coffee or cherry? I really want to try the cherry. Still have the coffee and bramble from the third base tasting last year.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:35 pm**

I got one coffee and my tickets in the benz raffle for a cherry

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:42 pm**

All I got was a coffee. Still have some from the tasting at third base last year.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:33 pm**

Back was feeling better today, so I ventured out to see what's left of the BCS. Bought the last 4-pack @ Benz this morning. But, the good news is that Oakland Rd HyVee has a good stock and no limit. Scored a 2nd 4-pack there.

Here's the other killer item at Oakland Rd. They actually bought a whole barrel of Jack Daniels. See the link about this.

http://www.jackdaniels.com/whiskey/jack ... gle-barrel

The barrel and all the special bottles are displayed. Pretty cool. I know a couple of people out at the power plant that are conspiring to do this next year.

About to crack open the bottle that I bought today. CHEERS!