Myself and some friends enjoy the Bourbon. In Virginia, we have the ABC control liquor, so all those hard to find liquors are only sold for retail price, unlike other states where the stores can mark them up and make a higher profit.

The way Virginia does these releases are as follows…

You sign up for emails.

Randomly, anywhere from 20-30 ABC stores in the state will have a shipment of whatever hard to find bottles.

Then one day, you get an email… the email will say LIMITED AVAILABILITY DROP and provide all the stores that are selling some hard to find bottles. It doesn’t tell you what they are or how many… just that this store will have… something.

You drive there, first come, first serve. Usually everything is sold out in like 10 mins.

This is the main website

https://www.abc.virginia.gov/

This is an example of the drop email

https://www.abc.virginia.gov/limited/allocated_stores_01_18_2023_05_45_pmlPDeNaaYEwS7ZSeZ92rL4klj.html

Note the time on the website Drop date: 01/18/2023 05:45 pm

I got the email at 6:06pm

Sooooo someone is publishing the site, then they are sending the emails….

Is there a way to monitor the site to see when a new page, like this, is published? Thus getting a jump….

Im going to say there is, I got to a store one day 5 mins after the email, I happed to be in the store next-door, and there were already 10 people on line. haha

Thanks for any thoughts!