Lottery Entry for Horus "Convocation" Bottle Club Membership Year Three

The lottery signups for Convocation Year Three will run from now until Sunday, May 3rd at 11:59pm on the Eventbrite link in the Instagram bio or by going directly to the Eventbrite.

You are putting your name into the draw (free ticket) for an opportunity to purchase one of the remaining spots in the club. It is open to anybody. Proxies are allowed if you are selected. Any duplicate entries will be removed, only one entry per email address. The random drawing will take place on the morning of May 4th and winners will receive an Eventbrite invitation to purchase their membership immediately after via email, so check your inbox and spam folders, and you will have 48 hours to secure your membership.

Only those selected as lottery winners will receive an email from Eventbrite. If anybody selected from the first round of the lottery chooses to not purchase, a small second lottery will take place and I will send those emails on May 6th, giving those people 48 hours to purchase as well. Thank you and good luck!

The Convocation, meaning group of eagles, is the exclusive bottle membership club of Horus Aged Ales, and this will be its third year of existence, running from 6/1/2020 to 5/31/2021. This year is definitely shaping up to be the best one yet. It will include two more bottles of beer than last year did and three of those will be different Barrel Aged stouts this time around!

It includes 12 bottles of beer total (all of them are club exclusives and will not be released to the public), 1 piece of club exclusive merchandise, and the first chance to purchase anything else Horus Aged Ales-related. Included perks of the club this year consist of the following:

-1 Bottle of “Kentucky Dosed”: Bourbon Barrel Aged version of Proper Dose that aged in Weller Bourbon barrels for 22 months!!!; BA Imperial Stout with Chocolate, Coffee, Hazelnut, and Vanilla Added [355 ml royal blue wax dipped]

-1 Bottle of “Plume Ruffled”: Bourbon Barrel Aged version of Ruffle The Feathers that aged in Woodford Reserve Wheated Bourbon barrels for 14 months; BA Imperial Stout with Coffee, Hazelnuts, Bourbon Madagascar Vanilla, and Tahitian Vanilla Added [355 ml baby blue wax dipped]

-1 Bottle of “Oceanside’s Thirteen”: last part of the Oceanside trilogy; Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout aged for 13 months with a grain bill composed of 27 different malts and 13 Adjuncts Added, and winner of the thirteen different Smorgastout iterations during a blind tasting panel with other brewers (One); BA Imperial Stout with Apple Brandy / Bourbon / Brandy Barrel Aged Blis Maple Syrup, Geisha / Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Bourbon Madagascar / Indian / Indonesian / Mexican / Peruvian / Tahitian / Tongan / Ugandan Vanilla Beans Added [650 ml orange wax dipped]

-3 Bottles of “Seagle, Not Seagull” [Forager Collaboration]: Imperial Stout with Vietnamese Kopi Luwak Coffee, Hazelnuts, and Maple Syrup Added [650 ml]

-3 Bottles of “Push The Boundaries” [Toppling Goliath Collaboration]: Imperial Stout with Almonds, Chocolate, Hacienda La Esmeralda Special Jaramillo Washed Geisha Coffee, and Tahitian Vanilla Bean Added [650 ml]…the coffee beans used in this beer are extremely rare and was approximately $500 per pound

-3 Bottles of “Baza Bonne Bouche” [Equilibrium Collaboration]: Imperial Stout with Chocolate, Imperial Stout with Chocolate, Hacienda La Esmeralda Super Mario 6 Geisha Coffee, Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Mixed Nuts, and Bourbon Madagascar Vanilla Bean Added [650 ml]

-There will be extra bottles of these included club exclusive beers above for purchase as well, and will be first come first serve

-1 free gift of a custom ceramic Horus tiki mug; Collaboration with tiki artist Thor and Tiki Farm in San Clemente, handmade in Mexico. This second edition will also be limited to just club members and is a tan and light brown but with a gloss glaze this time around

-Ability to purchase the reiteration of a certain adjunct-fueled Imperial Stout and band collaboration that rhymes with “copper gross” with the same quantity club limits as when it was first released in September 2018

-Ability to purchase the second batch of DOUBLE DOSE!!!

-First access to purchase any Horus Single Barrel Pick Whiskeys sold by El Cerrito Liquor in Corona

-First access to purchase any future local Horus events, whether it is a festival, pairing dinner, or tasting

- There will be several additional club exclusive beers that will be made available for purchase throughout the year but will not be included for free in the membership. NO Barrel Aged beer will be sold outside of this club for Year Three. That means no public releases for ANY Barrel Aged beers this coming year. Every BA beer will be a club exclusive and most Horus beers in general will be club exclusives this year

-The first beer available for purchase will be another collaborative Imperial Stout with J. Wakefield, and will consist of various kinds of unique sugar, various kinds of coconut, and marshmallows

-You will get a unique email each time that gets you into the Event Brite sales. If you share these emails with anybody else, you will be removed from the club immediately, no questions asked

-In addition to all of the included perks in Convocation Year 2 which included five different club exclusives, club members had the opportunity to purchase the following club exclusives: “Spirit Talons,” “Snatcher’s Grasp,” TBD Barrel Aged Stout, “Ride The Bird,” “False Idols Fall,” “Escape From Polar Vortex,” extra bottles of “Goshawk’s Return,” “Cooper’s Cachet” Four Roses Single Barrel Pick Bourbon (El Cerrito Liquor), “Merlin’s Mystique” 26 Year Old Single Malt Scotch (El Cerrito Liquor), tickets to the Urge Beer Pairing Dinner, and a ticket to the Tier Zero and Friends Tasting. In addition to all the different club exclusives, club members also had the first opportunity to purchase a “A Christmas Friggin’ Miracle,” “Martial’s Crest,” TBD Adjunct Stout collaboration, “Millenialistic Falcon,” and “Prairie Pizzazz.” You can expect to see even more offerings this year

-Some of the barrel aged beers that might become ready throughout the year to look forward to include a plethora of different barrel aged Stouts and Sour Ales, the Bourbon Barrel Aged version of Coconut Crown, a William Larue Weller Bourbon Barrel Aged non-adjunct Imperial Stout, Blanton’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine, Weller Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine, and a few other surprises

-Members have the first right to renew membership each year for as long as the club exists

The cost to join The Convocation is $400 plus tax and Eventbrite fees for what is included above (12 bottles of beer, 1 gift (2nd Edition of the Horus tiki mug), and all other perks) distributed randomly across the 12 month period as the beers become ready. The membership will be active from June 2020 to May 2021.

Club allotments will be distributed as the beers become ready. There will be at least ten different pickup opportunities spread randomly throughout the year, but my goal is to have many more like I did this past year and also mix them up between Saturdays and Sundays.

The first pickup for Convocation Year Three will be Sunday, July 12th and those available beers will be announced soon. In addition, each future release will be announced via email and Instagram each time, along with the determination of future pickup windows.

If you cannot make it to a pickup, you can just grab your allotments at the next pickup or the one after that, no big deal. Club members just need to pick up all beers by the end of the membership year (May 2021) regardless of if they will be part of the club the following year. Don’t sweat it if you cannot make it to each one or can only come once or twice per year, your beers will be stored until you can pick them up until May. Just remember I do not have a tasting room and the pickups are on specific dates, so please make sure you or a proxy can eventually come to pick up your beers.

You may name a proxy as stated above. Also, somebody can be a trustee for more than one person if need be. A proxy can be a member of the club themselves or they do not have to be, anybody may proxy. Either you or your proxy/trustee must pick up your allotments in person, no exceptions. Your trustee cannot be changed or added after your first pickup.

Thanks for your support! I look forward to sharing my beer with you over the next twelve months!!!