This is for you Roberto...

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From our November 1999 Newsletter:

Brewery Ommegang: Guaranteed NOT FRESH!

Many of you have heard us tell the tale of how we ordered 50 cases of a bottle conditioned domestic micro-brew two months in advance of the Holiday / Bowl Game Season so it would be aged and ready for you when you needed it and then nearly had to call the police to keep the industrial brewer who distributes it from trying to replace it with new stock because it was “out of code”! Well our buddy Don Feinberg (importer of such amazing bieres as Clovis, Affligem, Saison Dupont, Scaldis, Rodenbach and Boon) would never do that. In fact, in cahoots with the owners of Affligem, Duvel and Scaldis, he has constructed a beautiful new brewery in Cooperstown New York dedicated to making Belgian-style ales that are not only not fresh (they are warm cellared for two months before shipping) but meant for aging! The first offering is named after the brewery, tastes somewhere betwixt Affligem Dubbel and a grilled pork chop marinated in orange juice and cloves and comes in a 750ml bottle with Champagne Cork finish just $4.99!!!

GOOD Stuff! My favorite from that brewery is the Hennepin (although the Rare Vos rocks too).

PS: I think you meant "a cork-finished bottle" not "a corked bottle", eh???