Westy 12 release: mid December

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:41 am

how long before someone prints up "I survived the ontario westy release" tshirts?

brew-san · Post by **brew-san** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:45 am

I didn't keep up with special releases as much back then but was the first year with the Ola Dubh 40 year (few years ago) this bad?

Gedge · Post by **Gedge** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:46 am

Was able to grab one at Queen's Quay. Got there at 9:40, was about 90th in line. Heard variously that they had 100, 110 or 120. Photog from one of the papers was taking shots.

All were gone within 5-10 minutes. I think the LCBO staff ran the line very effficiently, handing out the packs as people walked in.

Guy a few spots behind me tried to pay a homeless guy to be his second in line (I shouted him down, he sent his "friend" to the back. Geez people are greedy/desperate).

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:46 am

the moral of the story....

when i moved to Toronto from Winnipeg, i was shocked by how Torontonians love perceived ANYTHING.
"Going out of Business sale"? - huge crowd, even if it is only 5% off.
"Food truck event!" - there is hype, therefore, let's go to where the crowd is.
"SKYDOME IS NOO! I HATE BASEBALLS, BUT IT HOLDS 50K PEEPLES!" - sold-out skydome for a few years.

the city loves its unbridalled hype.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:47 am

Can we at least all agree that everyone who tries to sell a bottle for more than $30 gets a punch in the junk and not money?

Apparently some A-Hole in San Diego is trying to sell an empty box for $230 on E-Bay. I can only hope it is a joke.

Lukie · Post by **Lukie** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:48 am

midlife crisis wrote:Regarding the list of stores being kept above, I can confirm Summerhill only got 80 packs for whatever reason. Manager said they were not getting any more. They also had some breakage on the glassware and put the damaged ones aside, he said, to be offered to staff on a lottery basis. The packaging itself is pretty flimsy.

Based on that , it wouldn't surprise me if we're going to have a record number of breaked glasses across the system. The proper thing to do in this case, is to offer the gift pack to customers at a slight discount or to have some kind of lottery involving the customers, again at a discount. Given the scarcity of this beer, I don't think its the best move for employees to have exclusive access to it.

Lukie · Post by **Lukie** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:49 am

JerCraigs wrote:Can we at least all agree that everyone who tries to sell a bottle for more than $30 gets a punch in the junk and not money?

Apparently some A-Hole in San Diego is trying to sell an empty box for $230 on E-Bay. I can only hope it is a joke.

I will not touch anyone's junk. That's what my boots are for.

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:50 am

The Liberty Village store said "we're expecting it, we just don't know when...so all you can do is keep trying."

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:51 am

JerCraigs wrote:Can we at least all agree that everyone who tries to sell a bottle for more than $30 gets a punch in the junk and not money?

Apparently some A-Hole in San Diego is trying to sell an empty box for $230 on E-Bay. I can only hope it is a joke.

Is this perhaps an end-run around Ebays restrictions on beer sales?

ercousin · Post by **ercousin** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:53 am

Lukie wrote:Based on that , it wouldn't surprise me if we're going to have a record number of breaked glasses across the system. The proper thing to do in this case, is to offer the gift pack to customers at a slight discount or to have some kind of lottery involving the customers, again at a discount. Given the scarcity of this beer, I don't think its the best move for employees to have exclusive access to it.

If I worked at the LCBO and cared about beer, I would want/expect some kind of perk like that for working there instead of somewhere else. I wouldn't even be strongly opposed to 1 or 4 LCBO employees getting first crack at the stock of Westy, they do work there after all....

Bill Pierce · Post by **Bill Pierce** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:53 am

It doesn't look good for the remaining locations. The subject is already being posted on the discussion forums for eBay professionals. Those people will pay someone to stand in line as long as necessary to get it. Expect to see scalpers' prices advertised for Westy12 within a day or two.

ChrisK · Post by **ChrisK** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:54 am

TheSevenDuffs wrote:
Bill Pierce wrote:Oakville will have 30 six-packs on sale tomorrow (Thursday) morning. They expect the line to start forming tonight and are telling people not to bother if there are more than 30 in line.
Good god. This is out beyond out of hand.

You know, I told my girlfriend about this thing and she asked if I wanted it for Christmas. I told her I didn't think it would be worth the money as there are definitely things I need more than this. I still, however, kept the idea in the back of my head... until I remembered today that it was supposed to start hitting stores and I read this thread. People driving to multiple LCBOs on a weekday morning, paying homeless guys to mule for them, expected to line up the night before? If I ever get a hankering for it again I think I'll go spend the $30 on a bottle at Bellwoods and save myself the trouble.

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:57 am

ercousin wrote:
Lukie wrote:Based on that , it wouldn't surprise me if we're going to have a record number of breaked glasses across the system. The proper thing to do in this case, is to offer the gift pack to customers at a slight discount or to have some kind of lottery involving the customers, again at a discount. Given the scarcity of this beer, I don't think its the best move for employees to have exclusive access to it.
If I worked at the LCBO and cared about beer, I would want/expect some kind of perk like that for working there instead of somewhere else. I wouldn't even be strongly opposed to 1 or 4 LCBO employees getting first crack at the stock of Westy, they do work there after all....

I totally agree.

StevenThrasher · Post by **StevenThrasher** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:02 am

icemachine wrote:Wow I was hoping I could grab one pack in RH and and one at Bayview Village for my FiL, guess that idea is scuppered

I was going to try the same two locations. And yes I doubt I will have any luck either. Maybe I'll try to get to one before 8AM and line up.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:02 am

brew-san wrote:I didn't keep up with special releases as much back then but was the first year with the Ola Dubh 40 year (few years ago) this bad?

This is clearly the craziest ever at the LCBO, I don't think I can recall lineups for beer before. The DFH was 'lets run around the city and find it' but it didn't have this kind of single-day insanity.

I really wonder who are all the people that are lining up. The audience of Bar Towel isn't *that* big and the media was fairly limited (Star print & TO Life, from what I can see). I guess there's just A LOT of people that buy into hype in Toronto.