UPDATED: (512) Brewing 2X Pecan Porter IN BOTTLES Info and Other News
FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: Spec’s Brodie sold out a few minutes after they opened. The guy on the phone told me they only had 18 bottles for sale for customers. Called Whole Foods, they don’t have it yet, but said they should have it before 1 pm.
Good luck, and save me a bottle, please!
ANOTHER UPDATE: Just confirmed that Whole Foods Downtown will have FOUR cases going on sale TOMORROW (FRIDAY) MORNING SOMETIME. Limit one bottle per.
More info HERE.
UPDATE: Most of you know the bottles released yesterday evening and the only “known” location selling them was Whipin, which promptly sold out by 7:30pm.
I have confirmed that Spec’s on Brodie will get a few cases and will be selling them FRIDAY (TOMORROW) MORNING.
Also, Whole Foods Downtown told me they will be getting four cases and will be selling either THIS AFTERNOON OR TOMORROW MORNING.
I’ll post more info here as I get it.
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Made a trip out to the brewery this afternoon to get it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Here’s what I got:
This is a small run limited release of 15 cases of 750 ml bottles that will be available “soon” in smaller accounts.
I expect these to go like hotcakes. Like really really popular hard to find hotcakes.
Nate told me he spent about nine hours bottling these bad boys by hand. I saw the bottler, I’m surprised he didn’t get blisters.
Kevin told me he will make an official announcement about the release date and other info on the (512) blog soon.
ALSO they had some extra 2X Pecan Porter and they put it back in the barrels for a second run of this amazing beer!
PLUS Nate said he’s got two barrels set aside with a TOP SECRET experiment living within. Didn’t sound like this was
something that would be available to buy, more as a test run for future barrel aged goodness.
IN ADDITION to that great info, the guys told me they brewed the first batch of the (512) Alt yesterday and it should be on tap March-ish as the Spring seasonal.
OH AND ONE MORE THING, they are currently in the process of moving their offices upstairs above the cold room to make an additional cold room and will be adding two more fermenters soon.
Ok. That’s it.
Here’s a pic of the barrels.
I may have to stop by the bewery and see if I can sweet talk them out of a bottle for myself. That is, by far, my favorite Austin brew. Thanks for the heads up.
I know Kevin has always intended to bottle, but I’ve always wished he wouldn’t. What is one of the things makes a Live Oak so special? You have to go out to get one. Throwing a party? Nothing is better than a keg of local beer you can’t get any other way. Special kudos if it is a seasonal; then you can look forward to that night all year.
Discovering 512 on tap around town has been a fun treasure hunt. Won’t be very rewarding once it’s on the store shelves.
Long ago, when I was first interested in craft beer and was visiting a friend in England, I asked him why he didn’t have any beer in his fridge. He looked at me incredulously and said, “What for? You drink with friends at the pub. Who wants to drink at home alone?”
Sitting in those warm pubs on cold nights with all the locals, who’d bring their instruments for an impromptu jam session, are fond memories. In an era when you can buy everything in convenient take-home packaging any time of the year, needing to go out is something to savor.
I mostly agree with you David.
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“Why didn’t you let him stay and drink?” the unhurried waiter asked. They were putting up the shutters. “It is not half-past two.”
“I want to go home to bed.”
“What is an hour?”
“More to me than to him.”
“An hour is the same.”
“You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy a bottle and drinkat home.”
“It’s not the same.”
“No, it is not,” agreed the waiter with a wife. He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a hurry.
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“I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe,” the older waitersaid.
“With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.”
“I want to go home and into bed.”
“We are of two different kinds,” the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. “It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe.”
“Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.”
“You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”
“Good night,” the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself, It was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that isprovided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not a fear ordread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all anothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order.
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Ernest Hemingway
“Clean Well-Lighted Place”
http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html