A Shitty Attempt at an April Fools Joke

So I was gonna pull an April Fools prank on you all. How nice of me, right? What a jerk. I thought I had a great (good) idea. In a nut shell, my idea was to peal the labels off a couple Saint Arnold DR 11 bottles and place them onto bomber bottles and get the rumor spreading that DR 11 Bombers were available in select locations. HAHA, very funny. I started the process last night, but the execution was poor. The bottles looked shitty. Then I also realized this prank could cause a lot of grief and annoying questions for Saint Arnold. I came to my senses, which was good, because no one would have believed me anyway.

April Fools!

DR #11 Spots - UPDATED

Want Divine Reserve 11? Try these spots (TAKING COMMENT UPDATES, CALL PLACES FIRST JUST TO MAKE SURE):

Central Market N Started presale Monday night, call ahead
Chris' Liquor
Whole Foods S Ask in beer section, beer held in back.
Whole Foods N SOLD OUT
Whip In
Spec's 290
Spec's Airport
Spec's Arbor Walk SOLD OUT
Spec's S.Park Mdw.
Spec's Rrk
Spec's BeeCaves
Gabriel's SM
HEB #68 Slaughter
HEB #425 Hancock SOLD OUT ACCORDING TO BEER GUY
HEB #404 Bee Caves/71
HEB #29 Westlake
HEB #428 Brodie
HEB #451-RR620
HEB #580 Parmer/1431
HEB #591-Palm Vly
Wheatsville
Fresh Plus #1 (W.Lynn)
Wiggy's
Farm to Market
Junior's
Live Oak Market
Hyde Park Mini Mart
Reuben's-Stassney
East End Wines
Thom's Market
Twin Galleria
Twin-Hancock
Barton Hills Mkt-S. Lamar
Oak Hill Liquor

ON TAP:

Billy's on Burnet - casks this friday
Dig Pub - pouring now
Whip In - pouring now

These sniped from BeertownAustin:
Tuesday- Dig Pub, Whip In, Draught House, Homefield Grill
Thursday- Saucer, Ginger Man
Friday- Billy’s on Burnet, Black Star Co-op

Saint Arnold DR #11 Unleashed Tomorrow

Another Divine Tuesday is happening tomorrow. I had a sample of it Friday. It's really good. I'm thinking it's a 2-3 six pack purchase. BAers are split, a lot of hatin. I guess DIPAs are not special enough to warrant a DR release. Fine, more for us. Reminded me a lot of one of my favorite DIPAs—Great Divide Hercules. Creamy, piney.

Saint Arnold DR #11 - 3/29/11

Cool. So next week I'll be drinking this.

Divine Reserve No. 11, a double IPA, is being released on Tuesday, March 29. If you are a hophead, this is your beer. We used over 1,000 lbs of a combination of Simcoe, Centennial and Columbus hops to brew this beer. The final result is a wonderfully hoppy, 9% ABV, 76 IBU (as lab tested) double IPA. We put the "as lab tested" note on there as paper calculations give much higher IBU results, but the bittering compounds in hops tend to start reaching their solubility limits around this level.

Read more here.

Saint Arnold DR #11

It's an imperial IPA, not a wheatwine as had been rumored. Oh well, I'm not a fan of wheatwines anyway. Maybe less intriguing, but tastier. Bring on April.

Nothing Today...

Sick as a damn dog. Still got my Divine Reserve #10 though. Go get yours.

Austin Beer Week - Saint Arnold Tasting

A hint of what's to come:

@franktex: Teaser for another event for @austinbeerwee - @SaintArnold Divine Reserve 1-9 vertical tasting w/Brock-details coming soon!

And so it begins

What's it gonna be........

DR9 Day, Part Dos

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Photo from @saintarnold.

I picked up two sixers during my lunch break. Looking forward to popping one open this afternoon.

I'll link to the reviews as they come in. Lee from I Love Beer is loving it.