Some info and timing on this years Black Friday Releases!

In addition to having releases, Friday will also be the start of our 7th Annual Whiskey Week with Bonus raffle tickets for all 750ml whiskey purchases (See Link for more info)

We will also be releasing 24 Redstone grab bags at 9am which include the following bottles (these will be first come first served). These bags will retail for $104.99 each of which $10 per bag will be donated to Shriners Children’s Hospital and will include the following:

1 Trillium Fated Farmer Peach
1 Founders CBS
1 Bourbon County Brand Stout
1 Surprise Trillium 750ml Btl (could be 1 of the following Adjunction Junction, Color & grain, macaroon, permutation 57, Tiramisu or Vanilla truffle)
1 Weller barrel aged maple syrup with vanilla and cocoa nibs added from Single barrel Cellar (Redstone Exclusive)

Release Schedule:

9am : Bourbon County Brand Stout (Stoneham)
9am: 3F Armand & Gaston Magnums (Stoneham Only)
9am: Cantillion Draw (first 8 folks to make a 6 bottle sour beer purchase gets a chance to buy a btl of Cantillion) (Bottles include Vigneronne, bruocsella & St Gilloise) – (Stoneham)

10am: Prairie consider yourself hugged (Both Stores)
10am Lawsons the space between (Stoneham)

11am: High West Mid Winters Night Dram (1 per) (Both Stores)
11am: Trillium Fated Farmer Peach (Stoneham only)
11am Lawsons Knockout Blonde (Stoneham)

12pm: Bourbon County Brand Stout (Andover)
12pm: Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (Both Stores)
12pm: Yamazaki 12 year (1 per) (Stoneham Only)

1pm: Prairie Double Dunk (Both Stores)
1pm: Lawsons Chinookered (Stoneham Only)
1pm: Wormtown Norm (Stoneham Only)

2pm: Jackie O’s Oil of Aphrodite, Barrel Aged Oil of Aphrodite and Dark Apparition (Stoneham)
2pm Girardin Gueuze (Stoneham Only)
2pm: Lawsons Hopzilla (Stoneham Only)

Throughout the day in Stoneham limited amounts of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, Kavalan Vino Barrique, Nikka 21 year, Rock Hill farms, Old Weller Antique, EH Taylor Small Batch, EH Taylor Straight Rye & Black Maple Hill will be randomly placed on the shelves….Other releases also expected to arrive Friday and will post those on Social Media upon arrival.

Cheers!

Released Black friday!

Redstone Exclusive: Bourbon Barrel Aged Idle hands 34 porter with Taza Chocolate!

We teamed up with Idle hands brewing of Malden to bring you a barrel aged chocolate version of their 34 Robust Porter. They took two of our hand selected barrels of four roses Bourbon (OBSQ and OESQ) aged 34 porter in them and added Taza chocolate nibs! The result is a smooth and creamy porter with loads of dark chocolate and notes of bourbon in the finish. At 7% ABV this Robust porter will leave you wanting more.

Only a limited amount of these 750ML bottles will be available at Both Redstone Stoneham and Andover locations as well as the brewery Starting at 9am on Black Friday!

$11.99/750ml

For those who have been to our Black Fridays you know how we roll! For those who haven’t you will not want to miss it.

Black Friday marks the official kick off to our Whiskey week raffle (extra tickets!) (see link for details on that, you will want to).

THIS YEAR BONUS for Sour lovers (Stoneham only): Any person who purchases 6 glass bottle single sour beers (no 6 or 4 packs, no cans) not only gets 10% off those beers but also gets to put their hand in the Lambic Jar! What is the Lambic Jar you ask? This jar has 66 tickets with the names of the following whalez written on the back of it. You get to purchase what ever beer is written on the back of the ticket you pull (also at 10% off MSRP)

For those who get to pull you have a 100% chance of going home with one of the following:

Cantillon Gueuze

Cantillon St. Gilloise

Cantillon Iris

Cantillon Saint Lamvinus

3 Fontenein Oude Gueuze

3 Fontenein Oude Kriek

3 Fontenein Armand And Gaston

In addition to that we bring out the big guns and will be releasing other Beer whalez all day! (and a few whiskey ones) Check out our social media sites all day (you may want to turn notifications on) as soon as something goes on sale it will be posted on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Everything will be first come with no holds. Releases will be spread throughout the day so it will definitely be worth the trip down whenever you decide to head over.

Here is a list of some of the items that will go on sale Black Friday! (Note all items in Stoneham, some in Andover, will post on each locations page with each release)
Beer:

• Redstone Exclusive Idle hand bourbon barrel aged 34 Porter with Taza chocolate nibs aged in our Four roses (OBSQ & OESQ Recipe) barrels and blended together!
• Goose Island Bourbon County brand stout
• American Solera Foederville
• American Solera The Ground Is Shaking
• Beer Geek Vanilla Maple Shake
• Prairie Vanilla Noir
• Prairie Coffee Noir
• Prairie Paradise Prairie Bomb!
• Tilquin Mure
• Tilquin Quetsche
• Tilquin Oude Geuze a’Lancienne
• Tommie Sjef Magnums
• Destihl Zure Dubbele Stout
• Destihl Oud Bruin
• Girardin 1882
• Evil Twin Maple Bourbon Barrel imperial biscotti cake break
• Firestone Helldorado
• Firestone Velvet Merkin
• Lindemans Oude Kriek Cuvee Rene
• Off Color Dino Smores
• Allagash Astrid
• Allagash Uncommon Crow
• Allagash Emile
• Allagash Hive 56
• Allagash James And Julie
• Allagash Avancee
• Allagash Pick Your Own
• Allagash Matina Rosso
• Allagash Evora
• Allagash James Bean
• Basil Hayden Dark Rye
• Weller Special Reserve
• Weller 107 (Not our barrel) Redstone Pick to be released on Dec 2nd at our Whiskey Fest
• Yamazaki 12 year

Details of this year’s annual Whiskey draft!
It’s every whiskey drinker’s favorite time of year. When many of the best-known distilleries around the US release their flagships, not to mention some of the highest rated whiskies start hitting the shelves. The only issue is there is never enough of these releases to go around. Our solution is the Whiskey Draft raffle. (Again this raffle is for a chance to Purchase some of these rare bottles at MSRP)

With the success and the fun of past years drafts we have once again decided this to be the best and most fair way of rewarding our customers with a strong chance of scoring some of this rare whiskey (at MSRP)

Whiskey week (as we like to call it) will start on Black Friday (November 24th) and will run though Our first ever Whiskey Fest which will be held a week later on (Saturday)December 2nd.

Rules: For every bottle of 750ml whiskey purchased at Redstone Liquors (Andover or Stoneham) during Whiskey week you will receive one raffle ticket (all same raffle)…

For every bottle of 750s from one of our many Redstone Exclusive single barrel picks you will get 2 raffle tickets: (while supplies last)

BONUS: Any bottles purchased on Black Friday will get 2 tickets per 750ml and 3 tickets for a Redstone barrel pick.

Some of this years Redstone Exclusive barrels that are still available include:
Eagle Rare
Blanton’s
Buffalo Trace (not a huge yield)
Barrell Bourbon
Knob Creek 13 year 8 month (not much left)
Makers cask strength exclusive bespoke recipe
Weller 107 (Will be released at our Whiskey Fest on Dec 2nd with bottle limits)
Compass Box Great king Street Sherry finished
Compass Box Great king Street Grain whiskey barrel finish
Compass Box Great king Street Highland Malt cask finish
Compass Box Great king Street Custom French Oak Cask finish

Loyalty Program: Join our new loyalty program at time of checkout. This will not only keep track of your future purchases but will reward you with things like access to flash sales, bonus tickets or private raffles and selective holds! All this for being a valued year round regular customer.

On Tuesday December 5th we will draw from the stack of raffle tickets collected to create a Draft order. First overall pick gets their pick of which whiskey they wish to purchase from the pool. Second pick get to chose from the pool of whats left and so on…
The more tickets you have in, the better your chance to get a spot… But note you can only win once.

If we draw your name multiple times you will get moved up in the list. (the folks with the most tickets drawn will move up in the draft based on number of time we pull their ticket). For those that only get picked once your spot on the list depends on the order it was picked.

When called you must make your pick while on the phone with us so that we can contact the next in line with what is avail to them.

In an effort of keeping this moving. If messages are not returned in 2 Hours! we WILL move on to next person and you will get bumped to the back of the line. as due to the number of winners, Prior years lists have taken way to long to contact everyone. If no call back in the same day we will take name off list and draw another.

There will be a chalkboard of all available whiskeys in the pool waiting to be drafted and how many bottles of each posted in store during whiskey week, this list will not be posted online so swing on though and get your tickets today.
Some of the rare whiskeys that will be in this years raffle include:

Pappy Van Winkle 23 year
Pappy Van Winkle 20 year
Pappy Van Winkle 15 year
Old Rip Van Winkle 12 year
Old Rip Van Winkle 10 year
George T Stagg
William Larue Weller
Thomas Handy
Eagle Rare 17
Sazerac 18
Four Roses Al Young bottles
Four Roses Limited edition small batch
Old Forester Birthday bourbon
Parkers Heritage
Weller 12 year
Angels Envy Cash Strength
EH Taylor Four Grain
Elijah Craig 18 Year old
Good luck to all!

For those who have been to our Black Fridays you know how we roll! for those who haven’t you will not want to miss it.

Black Friday marks the official kick off to our Whiskey week raffle (extra tickets!) (see link for details on that, you will want to).

In addition to that we bring out the big guns and will be releasing Whiskey & Beer whales all day! Check out our social media sites all day (you may want to turn notifications on) as soon as something goes on sale it will be posted on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Everything will be first come with no holds. Releases will be spread out throughout the day so it will definitely be worth the trip down whenever you decide to head over.

Here is a list of some of the items that will go on sale Black Friday! (Note all items in Stoneham, some in Andover, will post on each locations page with each release)

Beer:

Trillium Scaled 4pk cans

Goose Island Bourbon County brand stout

Goose Island Bourbon county coffee

Prairie Bomb!

Prairie Birthday Bomb!

Prairie Apple brandy barrel noir.

Crooked stave Brett d’apricot

Crooked stave Brett d’or

Crooked stave brett d’raspberry

Crooked stave brett d’blueberry

Firestone walker velvit merkin

Sierra nevada trip in the woods Ginger bigfoot

Sierra nevada trip in the woods Narwhal with black currants

Sierra nevada trip in the woods barrel aged Biere de garde

Boulevard collab no 6 (barrel aged Blend of imperial X stout with cherry, bourbon barrel quad, Firestone sticky monkey and velvet merkin)

Epic Big Bad Baptista

Epic double barrel big bad baptist

Cigar city and Jopan Wayne’s world

Mikkeller beer geek brunch weasel

Stone Stygian Descent

Whiskey:

Michters 10 year

Elmer T Lee

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof

EH Taylor Barrel proof

High West A Mid Winters night Dram

Nikka 17 year

Nikka 21 Year

Nikka single malt Yoichi

Nikka Single malt Mayagikyo

Kavalan Vinho Barrique

Kavalan Fino Sherry Cask

We are proud to announce that we will be one of 4 stores in Massachusetts that will be hosting the official Goose Island sponsored Bourbon County stout release!

Line will start at 6AM on Black Friday (November 27th) and doors will open at 8am. Coffee and doughnuts will be available to those lined up.
BCBS: Bourbon county will be available first come first served to those lined with a 2 bottle limit per person. (there will be no holds, no exceptions)

Variants: Massachusetts will be getting Coffee and Regal variants of BCBS this year and like years past they will be in short supply. The folks at Goose Island will determine which customers get to buy the variants by playing games and trivia with folks who come early and line up before 8am.
This years Bourbon county brand stout will be only available in 500ML bottles (no 4 packs or 22s were sent to MA). Since the package change there is also a lot less that will be available in the MA market than in years past so do not miss out on your chance to score some while having some fun with other folks just as excited to get their hands on some.

Bonus: Goose will be hosting 20 people in our classroom at 9:30AM (the first event in our brand new classroom). A representative from Goose Island will be showing the “Grit to Grain” videos that showcase the labor of love that goes into making BCBS as well as tasting folks on last years vintage of BCSB and a line up of some of their vintage sours. (Tickets for this classroom event/tasting will be limited to the first 20 people and will be available on a first come first served basis starting tomorrow (Monday Nov 23rd) in person or via phone (781-438-9265) at our Stoneham store only. Tickets for this even are $20. So be sure to call or come by early to reserve your seat.

Another Bonus: We will be starting our annual whiskey draft raffle Black Friday and will be giving 2 tickets for every bottle of 750ml whiskey purchased and 3 tickets for any one of our “Redstone exclusive” barrel picks (still 750ml btls only)…This will be THE only day that 2 and 3 tickets per bottle will be given before it reverts back to the 1 and 2 ticket system that we have implemented in years past. More details on this whiskey raffle will be posted in another post.

Another Bonus: We will have another “hard to get” offering on draft at our tasting bar available to taste(2 0Z. sample) for those that get there before 10am (while supplies last) – will announce what later that day.

Another Bonus: Door prizes will be given out randomly to those in line.

Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,

Your friends at Goose Island & Redstone Liquors