France 44 cellar sale

Did any MN BAs hit up the France 44 cellar sale this morning? I would love to know if you scored some whales, and I'm wondering if a BA won the RARE!

They sold a Rare? Told you guys it was still on the shelf.

They raffled 1-2 off I think.

You must have good eyes to see it on the shelf from CA. All the muffin tops probably.

Midwest shelf turds

I was there. No real whales, but a lot of great stuff. Lots of vintage bcbs, cherry rye, bcbcs, KBS, blacknote, Westy 12, abyss 3 year verticals, black ops, etc.
At noon they tapped a darkness keg and sold '10, 11, 12 darkness and some other surly anniversarys
They raffled 2 bottles of rare

I know one of the Rares went to a guy who seemed confused as to what he was getting, not sure about the other one.

ya i talked to that guy. he had no idea what rare was, but he likes bourbon county and loves pappy. so, im guessing he will enjoy it

Good grief! I hope he didn't just crack it right there like a guy did at Darkness day... At least in yesterday's case there wasn't rare on tap 20 feet away.

Wow, that is better than I would have expected.

Why would that be a bad thing? It's just beer, right.

Fair enough...

I cracked a Darkness at Darkness Day...

Bad form?

I hope not. I was slugging DL out of the bottle last year...until I caught a chunk of sludge anyway.

Classing up that bitch, huh?

No insult intended. I just prefer to keep my fresh bottles capped when I can get it on tap at the brewery. To each their own.

I agree with everyone else's sentiment on this one. That guy deserves it as much as anyone else.

When I got into this hobby, the second release I ever went to was for Flossmoor's Killer Kapowski where I won a raffle and was able to buy a Wooden Hell. I cracked it the next day. I had no idea how rare it was, I didn't even really know what a barleywine was, but I sure as hell enjoyed it.

04-06 bottle?

Dude, you don't drink rare beer. That's crazy talk.

Yeah, I talked to him too. He was a really nice guy, clearly didn't have ANY idea what he had. Thought about making him an offer, but I don't think money was really an issue for him. I think he happened to be there and grabbed some Darkness. Probably didn't know he was even in the raffle.

On a side note...One guy bought a 2010 and 2011 Utopias, plus whatever else he saw sitting around. A woman who I THINK was with him asked what I would take for my 2010 Darkness. I kindly declined even getting into that.

All in all, I dug the event. It felt a bit like a game/race during the 9AM release. Fun.

Are you sure they had 2010 Utopias?

Might have the years mixed up, but I thought that's what he said. Either way, two different Utopias.

Did they have any Surly 4?

Unfortunately no. Was hoping to see that. 5 and 2010 darkness were the most rare surlys.

cool.

EDIT: Bad at reading, nvm

'04 yeast
'05 not
'06 not
'07 yeasty
'08 yeasty
'09 better
'10-12 not

By "yeasty" I mean, 1-2" at the bottom of the bottle. Just for reference.

Cheers

Thats like wearing your own band's t-shirt, loser. Just kidding