Tell me about 3 Floyd’s, Anniversary Party

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Message bdigital beers 659 º places 11 º 14:49 Mon 11/14/2011 Originally posted by NobleSquirrel Originally posted by bdigital Got in early...had a great time. It seems easy to put all of the blame on FFF’s for this, but I truly think they didn’t anticipate every single person getting in line immediately for his/her bottles. When my wife and I got through the gates, we made a bee-line for the tent........crazy as it may sound, there was no wait for any brew. Chilled out in there for a few hours, grabbed some schwag, got in line for our bottles and bounced. I really don’t understand why everyone wanted to get in line for bottles as soon as they got in, other than trying to score a "RARE" BA brew. Good times...IMO Herd mentality. and Rare BA beers. Sorry...it was more of a rhetorical comment
Message bdigital beers 659 º places 11 º 15:19 Mon 11/14/2011 As a side note, does anyone know the ABV on the Baller Stout?? I couldn’t score any info off of the bottle
Message SrSilliGose beers 3351 º places 252 º 15:36 Mon 11/14/2011 any pics from the event?

Message drewbeerme beers 3921 º places 1 º 16:07 Mon 11/14/2011 Originally posted by bdigital I really don’t understand why everyone wanted to get in line for bottles as soon as they got in, other than trying to score a "RARE" BA brew. Good times...IMO Well you answered it yourself plus the fact that your sample ticket was given to you at the end of the bottle line so it just made sense to get your bottles first and drink afterwards. This plan pissed me off because it seems so manipulative, "if you want your drink tickets you will have to wait in a line and also buy our bottles while you are at it." The other advantage for them is more people would be buying draft pours while they are in line for bottles instead of using their drink tickets. I’d really like to know how much planning goes into these events (not including calculating profits).
Message fiver29 beers 1112 º places 52 º 16:09 Mon 11/14/2011 Originally posted by Cliff And where was the "chef food"? In the brewpub? I am not upset that I didn’t get any, I just never saw any evidence of it. The only food I saw was the taco truck and the other food truck (don’t know what they were selling because I never saw them open). It was there just not there when you got in. By then it was all sold out. I was thinking of buying some later in the evening. I missed out on that, too. I would have bought it earlier had I known it was all going to sell out so fast.
Message drewbeerme beers 3921 º places 1 º 16:51 Mon 11/14/2011 Originally posted by fiver29 Originally posted by Cliff And where was the "chef food"? In the brewpub? I am not upset that I didn’t get any, I just never saw any evidence of it. The only food I saw was the taco truck and the other food truck (don’t know what they were selling because I never saw them open). It was there just not there when you got in. By then it was all sold out. I was thinking of buying some later in the evening. I missed out on that, too. I would have bought it earlier had I known it was all going to sell out so fast. most of the food was sold out by 6:30 or so, or the big star line was so long (over an hour) that by the time you got upfront they had sold out. There was food in the brewpub, but then again another line assumed to be 1-2hrs long. Another bright spot in the planning of the event.
Message drewbeerme beers 3921 º places 1 º 16:54 Mon 11/14/2011 Originally posted by BBB63 I was right on the fence about them for well over a year but you can now add Three Floyds to breweries that are dead to me. I was about right there with you Mikey but then they went ahead and put Zombie Dust in 6packs.

Message ICEatALAMO beers 1366 º places 18 º 13:18 Tue 11/15/2011 My first time at 3F’s and never actually got a chance to check out the brewery, the line was too long to get inside. Seeing that I drove 8hours+ round trip I was a little disappointed. When I got to the BA line the DL 2010 was sold out. I didn’t mind too much because it saved me from spending $50 on a bottle. Did anything else run out?
Message polomagnifico beers 1214 º places 15 º 18:18 Tue 11/15/2011 What was the bottle count on the Baller?
Message bushchr1 19:15 Tue 11/15/2011 It was at least 7500. I’m pretty sure they sold 2500 tickets to the event, and each ticket guaranteed 3 bottles.