Ready to take a gamble? Loaded Dice Brewery is offering Barrel Aged Futures Bets for some of your favorite brews. This is a great way to get in early and reserve your spot for a future barrel release. It's a true futures bet! This year we are putting a bit of a twist on The Futures Bet to make it a bit more of a "wager".
Note: Sales for the 2024 Futures Bets will start on 11/24 at 12PM.
The basics of your Futures bet
Two Tiers this year (see below)
100 Futures Bets will be available between the two tiers
Each Tier 2 Futures Bet is guaranteed six (6) selections (most likely 7-8)
Periodic email updates on the status of each barrel
Special sampling events (sometimes improptu)
Release Party for Draft & Pick up (for real this year)
The more Tier 2 Futures Bet you buy, the more bottles you get (see table)
Terrific Two Tiers
The Futures Bet beers will be placed into two tiers this year, so that you can get a small amount if you choose, but you won't get many of the perks by getting a normal entry. But, it's a great way to get in on the action.
Once we package all the beer, we will sort them into two groups: High Demand and Highly Available.
High Demand will be the beers with lower yields and ones we anticipate will be the most sought after beers.
Highly available will be beers that we have enough to spread out pretty much to everyone.
Tier 1: $45/3 Bottles
The perfect way to dip your toe into the Futures Bet craze. This tier will get three (3) bottles, but won't get many of the cool stuff that comes with the full Futures Bet entry. This tier isn't eligible for the draft or the mulitple purchase bonuses (chart above). More information about this tier is outlined below:
Ticket holders will be notified of what beers they can select from
Pre-selected from the available beers, but you will get the following:
One from High Demand
Two from Highly Available
*Only 25 available
Tier 2: $90/6-8 Bottles
We are keeping it the same, but of course we are going to put some twists to it, because that's what we do. Damn those Tier 1 people.
Here's what is the same:
Draft process
Multiplier Bonus
Poker Chips/Clay Chips turn in
Here's what is tweaked:
For those who buy multiple, they cannot have a pick until everyone has at least one pick in
Allotment is decided after Tier 1 is finished
*Only 75 available
ADD ON FOR THIS YEAR
Futures Bet Raffle Ticket: Pay $10 in advance to be put into a raffle for an additional Futures Bet entry that will be drawn on 12/30/23 @ 8PM. The winner will be notify via email and/or social media.
Futures Bet Glass. This will be a Stemmed Glass with the Futures Bets logo and Loaded Dice Brewery Logo.
Futures Bet '24 T-Shirt. Pre-order for the shirt. It will be a limited edition shirt with our boy, Skellie, on it. You know it's going to look pretty dope.
Potential Beers*
Gambling With the Knucklebones of Wolves (Barleywine) in Iron Fish Bourbon/Port Barrel **
Shotgun Strategy (Stout) Double Barrel Aged: 10 months in a Heaven Hill barrel. 10 months in a Basil Hayden Toast Bourbon Barrel **
Vor's Gone Phishing (Russian Imperial Stout) aged in 8+ Year Elijah Craig Bourbon Barrel: we will split this into two beers: one plain, and one flavored (Flavor TDB) **
Imperial Pastry Stout split across two Wiess Distilling Barrels: One will be plain, and the other will be a redo of Leaking Chips (Chocolate, Coffee and Coconut) from '23 ***
Celebrated Pedestrian in a TBD Barrel ***
Wood Aged Lager or Sour ***
RULES & Other important sh*t
No combining Futures Bets (example: Person A and Person B each place an individual Futures Bet, it only counts as one Futures Bet each — not 2)
Tentative Release Party: November 16, 2024
You have to be present for the release party, or send a proxy. If not, you will get your allotment from what is left over
*Note: We will keep a small portion for bottling and cellaring of each barrel.