{"id":22486,"date":"2017-01-16T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=22486"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:29:39","slug":"toppling-goliath-kbbs-release-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/toppling-goliath-kbbs-release-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Decorah: The Toppling Goliath KBBS Release 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n F<\/span>ive hours to Decorah, Iowa.\u00a0<\/span>For seven bottles of beer.\u00a0<\/span>Only three of which would be mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n None of which I\u2019d ever tried before and from a brewery I wouldn\u2019t even be able to step foot in.<\/span><\/p>\n Five hours in the car, and then we turn around and do five hours back?!<\/span><\/p>\n When a friend was one of the 1,000 winners of Toppling<\/strong> Goliath\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> online lottery for a bottle of Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout and two bottles of Assassin – stouts regarded as two of the world\u2019s very best beers \u2013 as well as four bottles of the highly-regarded Double IPA, Sosus, I was happy for him.\u00a0<\/span>When he offered to split his haul if I\u2019d do the driving, my alarm was set for 4 a.m.<\/span><\/span> Friday<\/span><\/span>. KBBS hasn\u2019t been released in two years<\/span><\/span>, while Assassin and Sosus have been seen just once in the last year.\u00a0In fact, this local news story<\/a> says At that hour, the stretch from Chicago to Rockford, even to Madison, was the easy part. I\u2019d been warned by a friend of the two-lane stretches that awaited beyond that, but calling those final 150 final miles to Decorah \u201crural\u201d isn\u2019t doing it justice. It\u2019s the rural side of rural. I learned that Casey\u2019s, the string of gas stations popular in these parts, makes a mean taco pizza. But not much else.<\/span><\/p>\n As a veteran of rare beer release days, I came prepared: multiple layers of clothing for the long line and multiple bottles from home for an impromptu bottle share in that line. Turns out, neither was necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n60,000 people tried to register,<\/del> 15,000 people actually got through the registration process for just a thousand slots. (Edit: The 60k number referred to the recent Mornin’ Delight release and our reading comprehension is obviously low.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n