Two auctions I’m following are the 1987 J.W. Lees Harvest. Bidding closes Monday. No one has bid so far, it’s still at $9.99. I’m gonna bid on it tomorrow. This should be an excellent beer, worth more than $10.
On my KQED Belgian Beer Tour of San Francisco and Oakland, there’s been a bit of activity. Price is now up to $403. Bidding ends tomorrow
Posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Under: Barrel-Aged Beer, Beer Auctions, Beer Bars, Belgian Beer, General | No Comments »
Help. I need a secretary or an aide-de-camp. I’m VERY LATE with this posting. Let me explain, last year I volunteered to do a San Francisco pub crawl for KQED, KTEH, the public broadcast stations. It was a big success.
This year I’m doing a Belgian Beer Tour, also with Mr. Toad’s Tours furnishing the transportation. It up right now on the KQED Online Auction. There are only two moe days remaining to bid.
So if the idea of a whole lot of great Belgian beer at a number of spots in the East Bay and San Francisco grabs you and you feel like making a charitable, tax deductible donation, check it out. This is for a very worthy cause and the price is low.
Posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008
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Will the day come when fine beer trades like great wine? How about right now. Liquid Solutions a spirits, beer, wine and cider retailer with a mail order business is beginning an online beer austion starting Friday noon Pacific Time. The uction closes at 7 p.m. PDT on April 28.
The first two lots offered are: 1. A 1987 bottle of J.W,. Lees Harvest Ale. J.W. Lees is a Manchester, England brewer. Startig bid is $9.95. At that price I’d snap it up. Regular 2006 and 2007 Harvest sells for about $8. I wrote about this beer a couple of weeks ago (Tasted a couple of vintages — the one offered for sale is the first. They were absolutely incredible, especially the one aged in Calvados barrels. Read about the beer here,
Lot 2 is three bottles of 1996 Orval. Starting bid is $19.95. Hmmm. A 1996 would be bone dry with a leathery “horse blanket” nose from the wild yeast used in the secondary fermentation in the bottle. It would be an entirel different creature than fresh Orval. I wrote about Orval in detail. You can find that column here.
To register and bid online, go to Liquid Solutions. By the way, Liquid Solutions has a physical address and phone number: 275 Beavercreek Rd #C149 Oregon City, Oregon 97045, 503-496-1942
Posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Under: Beer Auctions, Belgian Beer, Craft Beer, General, Imports | 1 Comment »
