{"id":568,"date":"2013-10-18T18:10:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-10-22T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T23:39:45","slug":"government-shutdown-delays-delivery-jolly-pumpkin-rbc-exclusive-los-vivos-y-los-muertos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/government-shutdown-delays-delivery-jolly-pumpkin-rbc-exclusive-los-vivos-y-los-muertos\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown Delays Delivery of Jolly Pumpkin RBC Exclusive, Los Vivos y Los Muertos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to tell you, this has been a really challenging month as the shutdown of the federal\u00a0TTB\u00a0office which approves new beer recipes and labels has impacted a number of beers we had slotted for\u00a0Q4.\u00a0 The nature of the products featured in The Rare Beer Club\u2122, which are often exclusive products brewed just for our members and new products to the US market, has made us much more susceptible to being affected by the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The fact that I just happened to be wearing my Jolly Pumpkin t-shirt on the day that we rated a potential replacement beer for their Los\u00a0Vivos\u00a0y Los\u00a0Muertos, a pumpkin lime\u00a0saison\u00a0brewed exclusively for The Rare Beer Club\u2122, was bittersweet to say the least.\u00a0 We’re all pretty bummed that we had to delay bringing this special beer to our members, but after we tasted\u00a0Malheur\u2019s\u00a0Zestig, labeled a Belgian strong golden ale (we all felt was more of a strong Belgian IPA), we began to feel a bit like there was in fact a silver lining to the predicament we were facing.<\/p>\n

Man, did we ever get lucky finding a solid replacement for JP.\u00a0 We called dozens of importers, distributors and breweries before stumbling across\u00a0Zestig. \u00a0The fact that\u00a0Malheur\u00a0translates to \u201cmisfortune\u201d seems a bit ironic as this is a brand new product from the brewery and\u00a0only a little over a 100 cases have been sold in the US in very limited distribution.\u00a0 It was indeed our good fortune that we were able to secure all but about 60 cases of what the importer has left on the floor for our members. So you could say it’s got a good “rareness” story…but how’s the beer?\u00a0 One word:\u00a0 Outstanding.\u00a0 You’re\u00a0gonna\u00a0love it.\u00a0 What an impressive beer.\u00a0 We were all blown away and felt that in some strange way this was all meant to be as we now can bring our members both outstanding beers, both of which are virtually RBC exclusives.\u00a0 We’ll have the full tasting notes for\u00a0Zestig\u00a0up on our site early next week if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

One last parting thought. I want to reassure our members that we will in fact get Los\u00a0Vivos\u00a0y Los\u00a0Muertos\u00a0to you one way or another, either as a special offer or in a future month.\u00a0 Thank you for your patience.<\/p>\n

Prost!
\nKris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to tell you, this has been a really challenging month as the shutdown of the federal\u00a0TTB\u00a0office which approves new beer recipes and labels has impacted a number of beers we had slotted for\u00a0Q4.\u00a0 The nature of the products featured in The Rare Beer Club\u2122, which are often exclusive products brewed just for our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGovernment Shutdown Delays Delivery of Jolly Pumpkin RBC Exclusive, Los Vivos y Los Muertos - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We were all blown away by Zestig and felt there in some strange way this was all meant to be as we now can bring our members both outstanding beers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/government-shutdown-delays-delivery-jolly-pumpkin-rbc-exclusive-los-vivos-y-los-muertos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government Shutdown Delays Delivery of Jolly Pumpkin RBC Exclusive, Los Vivos y Los Muertos - 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