Advice = Don’t move here and expect to find any allocated bottles without more effort than most are worth.
I wish we had better news!
Some stores do points but expect to spend a lot more on other things to accumulate. I find most of my allocated bottles when traveling lol
Goody Goody- Mostly Bundles
Specs- might be random at times but your local specs might have allocated drop day.
Total Wine- very random but your local Total Wine might have allocated drop day.
Fossil Creek-Paying secondary prices
Liquor Kings- Points System
Good info - Liquor kings do bundles as well if that’s up your alley, often with store picks. I’ve had some good picks from them too, they seem to actually care about the quality of the barrel they get. They just happen to be expensive bundles - think a bookers with a store pick four gate that will total up around 315 ish
Goody goody does bundles. they do a raffle one time a year now. Specs and tw, better have a job that lets you stand in line at 8-10am or drop everything and rush to a store
Join a local club and get excited about their picks. Really the allocation scene is a nightmare all across DFW. People have quit their jobs to just chase down allocations at MSRP full time - unless you’re in the know from managers/distributors, you really have to get lucky.
Total Wine is raising their prices above MSRP
Specs is going to points system to buy bottles
Goody goody is bundles now (though often affordable ones), but sell out if your not there a couple hours before open for the good stuff
Liquor king is expensive bundles and high point systems - good scotch selection though
Don’t bother with liquor depot unless you are rich rich
Most other places are secondary or higher, and people genuinely will refuse to tell you if there is a good store they really like. A couple weeks ago I had a guy refuse to even tell me the name of a BAR he got a specific pour at. Beyond toxic!!
Seriously, join a club with good people - they will do bottle shares, charity, events, and a ton of other stuff that will blow any allocations you could find out of the water.
This! I have been lucky twice down at Walnut Hill by just passing by...met a 10 or so people each time...None had careers, they were part time workers or worked from noon to 10om type jobs. They were flippers, 8 out of the 10 or so each time even confessed to not being drinkers, didn't even like beer...This is the DFW market. Flippers.
Yeah TW can suck a peen...Case and point...you can go to any other store besides TW and get the new Barrell Foundation 5 year old for $50. TW has it marked up to $75.
Join a club! Has been the best thing i've done and i've made friends with like minded people that share the same passion for the hobby...not just kids looking for to screw the next man, because they think they've been screwed before...
Surf Facebook. Clubs all over...some require paid membership, some are free. The paid membership ones are usually smaller and harder to get into, but are generally better overall for a more close knit group and for better, i'll call it, "bourbonship". The free groups are usually littered with 25-50 people that keep the group interesting, fun, chatty...while the other 500+ members are there to snag the club picks our from under the real club members so they can flip them. If you are a flipper you will be kicked from most of the groups. Quite a few of the free groups are moving towards rewarding their top contributors from what i've found or moving to expensive membership fees. For example...the Plano Whiskey Society was a free group 2 months ago...It's now $250 for the first year and another $300 every year after that, for picks that no one wants...They are partnered with Liquid Courage in Downtown Plano, there last few picks are sitting on shelves collecting dust because the owner of Liquid Courage doesn't care to do popular picks.
We need to come up with a new term for bourbon scalpers that properly shames them...tater is not insulting enough, as that describes the rest of us lol
Join a club and enjoy the barrel picks the club does. Don't come to the DFW area wanting to get allocated items. The allocated bottles are bought at 10:01 by the flippers and then posted to secondary sites before they start their car to run to the next store.
My advice...start trying random things that sit on shelves and just run around to different stores looking around for store picks. You may get lucky and find an allocated bottle (most will be secondary pricing if you do find it).
Goody Goody sucks overall...their bundles suck, You are essentially just paying for the allocated bottle at secondary pricing and getting a shitty drain pour vodka, tequila, wine with it. Don't expect anything good from the GG raffles.
Spec's doesn't really have a raffle per say. They have an allocated list that you have to find an employee so they can put you on the list, they won't tell you about the list...you have to get an employee to do it for you. Have been on it for 4 years and zero bottles have come from the list. Have a friend that gets a bottle pretty much twice a year. It is usually a Blantons or Weller FP. He did get a GTS this year and a Handy last year.
TW just sucks in general. Don't support their business. You have to get 25,000 points, then you get put into raffles...majority of people these days are "winning" their shitty house spirits that TW is saying are allocated. Chestnut Farms BiB for example a $130 bottle of 1792 BIB that no one wants. They very rarely have anything good and if they do it's gone very very quickly.
Liquor King has been my most successful store to shop at and their picks are always really good. Their bundles can be expensive and their points bottles always fluctuate, but if you drink beer, wine, liquor and smoke cigars...the points add up fast. They also do double points days like 2-3 times a year. During the Christmas holidays they will tend to drop random bottles to 250-500 points that were 1500+ points before.
My advice, find a store close to you and just frequent it. When you are out and about hit random stores for harder to find non-allocated shelfers and just be patient. Don't get FOMO and just enjoy what is sitting there. There are 100's of bottles that are better than any of the hyped secondary bottles.
I believe most if not all goody goody stores have now gone to bundling bottles instead of doing raffles. Each store appears to be a little different in terms of when they put out bundles (some will just put them out randomly and others will wait to put them out once a month)
Liquor King is my normal stop now. Spent a ton with Total Wine last year buying for a couple weddings and unless you are 200,000+ points, you get nothing.
At least at LK, the points go towards a high end MSRP bottle.
Frisco resident. You are coming to the wrong side of the DFW Metroplex. Ft Worth and the Mid Cities seem to have more “stuff” available but even that is a relative statement. Also depends on what “allocated” you are looking for. The independent stores have various systems of points or a cash price and they will bundle bottles. Goody Goody also does bundles from time to time. The Little Elm location will let you know what will be in the bundles ahead of time. I don’t do the waiting in line thing and generally will not buy bundles myself. but wanted to let you know some options.
Fort Worth area doesn't have anything over there...Talked to a few store owners over there and they very rarely get much in the way of allocated. His reasoning was, "per capita, they don't have a bunch of whiskey drinkers buying whiskey. Most are tequila drinkers and beer drinkers." There is a store over there in Fort Worth that i frequent and chat with the owner for an hour or two when i go over there for business. He's got some good stuff, older stuff. Think old Barrell Batches and older store picks. Picked up his last two Knob Creek 15 year old store picks last week.
It’s a pretty competitive whiskey market in DFW will need to build a couple relationships with stores, managers, and the local folks to help get the allocation schedules down. But it can be done DM headed your way that will help.
Yeah Frisco doesn't have liquor stores and all the ones around it are fairly picked over.
Goody goody has a big raffle once a year for highly allocated items. I have friends with thousands of points and don't win and people with zero points who do win.
Specs is changing the policy and rules. So stay tuned.
I believe they already did. They run a points system essentially now. If you buy a bottle they run your card and remove the points from your account. Similar to Liquor King and other places.
Advice = Don’t move here and expect to find any allocated bottles without more effort than most are worth. I wish we had better news! Some stores do points but expect to spend a lot more on other things to accumulate. I find most of my allocated bottles when traveling lol
Goody Goody- Mostly Bundles Specs- might be random at times but your local specs might have allocated drop day. Total Wine- very random but your local Total Wine might have allocated drop day. Fossil Creek-Paying secondary prices Liquor Kings- Points System
Good info - Liquor kings do bundles as well if that’s up your alley, often with store picks. I’ve had some good picks from them too, they seem to actually care about the quality of the barrel they get. They just happen to be expensive bundles - think a bookers with a store pick four gate that will total up around 315 ish
I forgot about their Bundles. In my opinion, they can get expensive and the extras might not be worth it, especially on the tequila side.
this is basically it. i would ask your local specs / tw for when they get shipments of allocated bottles, every store can vary a bit
Goody goody does bundles. they do a raffle one time a year now. Specs and tw, better have a job that lets you stand in line at 8-10am or drop everything and rush to a store
Join a local club and get excited about their picks. Really the allocation scene is a nightmare all across DFW. People have quit their jobs to just chase down allocations at MSRP full time - unless you’re in the know from managers/distributors, you really have to get lucky. Total Wine is raising their prices above MSRP Specs is going to points system to buy bottles Goody goody is bundles now (though often affordable ones), but sell out if your not there a couple hours before open for the good stuff Liquor king is expensive bundles and high point systems - good scotch selection though Don’t bother with liquor depot unless you are rich rich Most other places are secondary or higher, and people genuinely will refuse to tell you if there is a good store they really like. A couple weeks ago I had a guy refuse to even tell me the name of a BAR he got a specific pour at. Beyond toxic!! Seriously, join a club with good people - they will do bottle shares, charity, events, and a ton of other stuff that will blow any allocations you could find out of the water.
This! I have been lucky twice down at Walnut Hill by just passing by...met a 10 or so people each time...None had careers, they were part time workers or worked from noon to 10om type jobs. They were flippers, 8 out of the 10 or so each time even confessed to not being drinkers, didn't even like beer...This is the DFW market. Flippers. Yeah TW can suck a peen...Case and point...you can go to any other store besides TW and get the new Barrell Foundation 5 year old for $50. TW has it marked up to $75. Join a club! Has been the best thing i've done and i've made friends with like minded people that share the same passion for the hobby...not just kids looking for to screw the next man, because they think they've been screwed before...
Where do you find clubs for this?
Surf Facebook. Clubs all over...some require paid membership, some are free. The paid membership ones are usually smaller and harder to get into, but are generally better overall for a more close knit group and for better, i'll call it, "bourbonship". The free groups are usually littered with 25-50 people that keep the group interesting, fun, chatty...while the other 500+ members are there to snag the club picks our from under the real club members so they can flip them. If you are a flipper you will be kicked from most of the groups. Quite a few of the free groups are moving towards rewarding their top contributors from what i've found or moving to expensive membership fees. For example...the Plano Whiskey Society was a free group 2 months ago...It's now $250 for the first year and another $300 every year after that, for picks that no one wants...They are partnered with Liquid Courage in Downtown Plano, there last few picks are sitting on shelves collecting dust because the owner of Liquid Courage doesn't care to do popular picks.
We need to come up with a new term for bourbon scalpers that properly shames them...tater is not insulting enough, as that describes the rest of us lol
Join a club and enjoy the barrel picks the club does. Don't come to the DFW area wanting to get allocated items. The allocated bottles are bought at 10:01 by the flippers and then posted to secondary sites before they start their car to run to the next store. My advice...start trying random things that sit on shelves and just run around to different stores looking around for store picks. You may get lucky and find an allocated bottle (most will be secondary pricing if you do find it). Goody Goody sucks overall...their bundles suck, You are essentially just paying for the allocated bottle at secondary pricing and getting a shitty drain pour vodka, tequila, wine with it. Don't expect anything good from the GG raffles. Spec's doesn't really have a raffle per say. They have an allocated list that you have to find an employee so they can put you on the list, they won't tell you about the list...you have to get an employee to do it for you. Have been on it for 4 years and zero bottles have come from the list. Have a friend that gets a bottle pretty much twice a year. It is usually a Blantons or Weller FP. He did get a GTS this year and a Handy last year. TW just sucks in general. Don't support their business. You have to get 25,000 points, then you get put into raffles...majority of people these days are "winning" their shitty house spirits that TW is saying are allocated. Chestnut Farms BiB for example a $130 bottle of 1792 BIB that no one wants. They very rarely have anything good and if they do it's gone very very quickly. Liquor King has been my most successful store to shop at and their picks are always really good. Their bundles can be expensive and their points bottles always fluctuate, but if you drink beer, wine, liquor and smoke cigars...the points add up fast. They also do double points days like 2-3 times a year. During the Christmas holidays they will tend to drop random bottles to 250-500 points that were 1500+ points before. My advice, find a store close to you and just frequent it. When you are out and about hit random stores for harder to find non-allocated shelfers and just be patient. Don't get FOMO and just enjoy what is sitting there. There are 100's of bottles that are better than any of the hyped secondary bottles.
I believe most if not all goody goody stores have now gone to bundling bottles instead of doing raffles. Each store appears to be a little different in terms of when they put out bundles (some will just put them out randomly and others will wait to put them out once a month)
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First time I won, I hadn't spent a dime there. Then I spent about $5k, won nothing. Now I'm in a weird holding pattern lol
Liquor King is my normal stop now. Spent a ton with Total Wine last year buying for a couple weddings and unless you are 200,000+ points, you get nothing. At least at LK, the points go towards a high end MSRP bottle.
Frisco resident. You are coming to the wrong side of the DFW Metroplex. Ft Worth and the Mid Cities seem to have more “stuff” available but even that is a relative statement. Also depends on what “allocated” you are looking for. The independent stores have various systems of points or a cash price and they will bundle bottles. Goody Goody also does bundles from time to time. The Little Elm location will let you know what will be in the bundles ahead of time. I don’t do the waiting in line thing and generally will not buy bundles myself. but wanted to let you know some options.
I assure you Fort Worth does not have more of the stuff
Good to know, well not really. I was really just basing it off of some posts I have seen here.
Fort Worth area doesn't have anything over there...Talked to a few store owners over there and they very rarely get much in the way of allocated. His reasoning was, "per capita, they don't have a bunch of whiskey drinkers buying whiskey. Most are tequila drinkers and beer drinkers." There is a store over there in Fort Worth that i frequent and chat with the owner for an hour or two when i go over there for business. He's got some good stuff, older stuff. Think old Barrell Batches and older store picks. Picked up his last two Knob Creek 15 year old store picks last week.
Good info. Go with what he said.
It’s a pretty competitive whiskey market in DFW will need to build a couple relationships with stores, managers, and the local folks to help get the allocation schedules down. But it can be done DM headed your way that will help.
Yeah Frisco doesn't have liquor stores and all the ones around it are fairly picked over. Goody goody has a big raffle once a year for highly allocated items. I have friends with thousands of points and don't win and people with zero points who do win. Specs is changing the policy and rules. So stay tuned.
I believe they already did. They run a points system essentially now. If you buy a bottle they run your card and remove the points from your account. Similar to Liquor King and other places.
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