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Anybody got the collection of Vintage brews from its inception?

Can i tell you a story of missed opportunities?
Ok.
Once upon a time i had a bright idea of buying the Grange collection and bare in mind this was around 94. There was an auction for a set coming up and i suggested to the wife we buy it but naturally she was against it as it would be fetching in the tens of thousands. We only had about 30 or 40k remaining on the house and i wanted to borrow the cash against the house to do so but there was no budging from the leader of the oppostion so i had to watch somebody else scoop the pool for $90000.
Still spewing as we had a good collect on a property investment a couple of years later and i would have owned the bloody thing outright.

beeroclock wrote:Anybody got the collection of Vintage brews from its inception?

Jimmy_041 to thread, Jimmy to thread...

I thought they were talking about my mother in law and shied away

How good is this, over 100 views and nobody has claimed to have the Vintage set.
This could be the new Grange.
I will be dead before its worth anything though

I don't have a set but I have a carton, nearly finished, from the I think it was the second batch, carton signed by Glenn Cooper.
It is beyoooootiful. I had five cartons from that year and slowly drunk them down.
Was going to hold on to this last carton for ever - but decided Christmas was a pretty special occasion last year and would open it.

I had a couple of cartons of the first lot and three cartons of the second lot, after trying a couple I gave the rest away as it tasted like sh!t.

Wedgie wrote:I had a couple of cartons of the first lot and three cartons of the second lot, after trying a couple I gave the rest away as it tasted like sh!t.

I thought the first couple of batch's were the best.
Funny how people have different tastes.

Dogwatcher wrote:I don't have a set but I have a carton, nearly finished, from the I think it was the second batch, carton signed by Glenn Cooper.
It is beyoooootiful. I had five cartons from that year and slowly drunk them down.
Was going to hold on to this last carton for ever - but decided Christmas was a pretty special occasion last year and would open it.

I buy two slabs a year. Drink one and cellar the other.
With my record i cant believe that i still have them in tact.

I still rue and lament drinking a slab of the Duff Beer that was merely repackaged West End.

Barto wrote:I still rue and lament drinking a slab of the Duff Beer that was merely repackaged West End.

Ya shoulda pissed in the cans and had them resealed.

Nobody would have noticed.

beeroclock wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I don't have a set but I have a carton, nearly finished, from the I think it was the second batch, carton signed by Glenn Cooper.
It is beyoooootiful. I had five cartons from that year and slowly drunk them down.
Was going to hold on to this last carton for ever - but decided Christmas was a pretty special occasion last year and would open it.

I buy two slabs a year. Drink one and cellar the other.
With my record i cant believe that i still have them in tact.

You've done well.
I kind of wish that I'd kept this last one.
But...it's nice to share them with others, tbh.

Barto wrote:I still rue and lament drinking a slab of the Duff Beer that was merely repackaged West End.

$18 cartons went down well in Darebin St.

Certainly an acquired taste as it is almost twice the strength of your standard beers.

I bought one over the bar at the Kensington Hotel one day in early 2006 and lo and behold it was from the original '98 edition.

ORDoubleBlues wrote:Certainly an acquired taste as it is almost twice the strength of your standard beers.

I bought one over the bar at the Kensington Hotel one day in early 2006 and lo and behold it was from the original '98 edition.

Will have to pop in and see what they have in stock.

New batch is $70 a slab.
Criminals at the Old Spot are asking $85. Losers.
Very disappointing to see Coopers have dropped the mils per bottle though.
Still tastes good.

Yes I had a 98 slab a 99 slab a 00 slap all brought with the good intention of storing them. But as I was 18-20 livin with a bunch of pissheads grunger mates, those cartoon never got stored more than a night