Little late to post all this (as BowSowy pointed out), but I had my bachelor party in Asheville this past weekend. It was an awesome trip, with a ton of great beer. Those mountains are incredible around there and it's a great getaway.

Here are some pics:

Zillacoah Beer Co. was probably my favorite brewery of the trip. Great mix of beers, awesome scenery right next to the French Broad River, and I had never been before. Didn't even know of it until MattJaxson mentioned it when we were heading out from an afternoon at Sierra Nevada.



This was their Hoppy Wheat:



The next day we started out at Burial Beer Co. (after a nice 32 oz. Smirnoff icing). All 4 of these were great beers, the bottom right one was pure toffee goodness:



We walked over to have some sours and snacks at Funkatorium after that. This was a great sour:



Next up, Green Man. A place I've always wanted to go when I've been to Asheville but had not. This was an ESB on Nitro, was a smooth sipper. I also had my first Brut IPA there, although pretty much every brewery had a version of their own!:



This flight was from White Labs. Really cool what you can do there. They brew the same beer with different yeasts so you can try them side by side to see just how much yeast can affect the end product!:



Highly recommend Asheville to any of y'all that have not been!

Not pictured: The bountiful amount of SG beer that MattJaxson brought, the 6-packs of Smirnoff ice, and some classic beer pong.

Huge S show on the praire website this morning trying to order barrels. Site crashed as soon as it opened and tons of butthurt all around for people missing out. With all of that being said I was able to secure 1 of the 6 bourbon barrels. Still have a couple weeks until I have to submit my final recipe.

Once I know what I'm making I'll offer a portion to TA. Impossible to know the exact bottle count of the barrel but each bottle should be between $11-$14. I would like to start trying to collect some money for people that won't bottles so I'm not out of pocket $4000 until January when they will be ready.

We can figure out specifics once I lock in the final recipe but wanted to try and give everyone some heads up. I should have around 50 bottles available for y'all.

Bmac04 said:

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Someone want to make a Google doc for this

Maybe leave it a max of 2 bottles each for now to make sure everyone gets some then we can open it up more.

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See if this is sufficient.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TfF3yX_3jM3F8p2QZvVbamicNer_gbDwmML5VUJsAEg/edit?usp=sharing