This Week's New Beverage Labels: A Margarita and A Rare King

The drinks business is weird these days

Apparently, Goose Island has now decided to drop a BCBS Rare on us? That’s the word from a couple different sources, anyways.

We showed Premium Subscribers this label for King of Kentucky barrel-aged BCS way back in April, but it didn’t make it to the variant announcement in July. Today, though. we got this reel from beer influencer Mike Zoller and what looks like a press release on Chicago Food Magazine.

And that’s all I’m seeing about this so far. Rare Day is coming back as well, it seems. Details to follow when we get them.

Onto new labels: I have long argued that the NWI region is Chicagoland, despite pedants pushing back that since it’s in Indiana, it can’t be part of Chicagoland … anyways, since there isn’t much to share with you from Illinois this week, I’m dragging up a certain Munster resident for …

The New Illinois-ish Beer Label of the Week:

I know that these Three Floyds canned cocktails have been around for a while now, but I still love to think about what a beer drinker from 2009 might say if they time traveled to present day and got handed a FFF Margarita.

This version isn’t on their canned cocktails page, so consider this one a work in progress. Considering the popularity of margaritas … I’d be shocked if this doesn’t emerge soon.

And while I’m thinking of it … hey, weren’t they supposed to reopen a taproom this year or something? Probably oughta look into that soon.

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