It's a big day in Santa Rosa

A few years ago the BeerAdvocate named Russian River Brewery's Pliny the Younger, a triple-IPA, the best beer in the world.

The bad news is this specialty beer is only available for two weeks at the brewery with a few kegs going to other places. They run out of Pliny the Younger some days.

Feb 1st is the release date. Here's what it looked like an hour-and-a-half before opening time on the first day.

The front of the line
These folks from Colorado arrived at 3 am