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When the hosts of the popular All-In podcast launched their own tequila brand at a star-studded party last June, all 750 bottles of the $1,200 spirit quickly sold out<\/a>. But getting those bottles into customers\u2019 hands has proven harder than expected.<\/p>\n The long-awaited bottles of Besties All-In tequila began shipping last week to those who ordered them, ending a nearly five-month-long wait, Jason Calacanis, one of the podcast\u2019s hosts, told TechCrunch. <\/p>\n The holdup was the unusual bottle, Calacanis said: \u201cHandcrafted bottles took a bit longer to create than expected, but the bottles started shipping last week!\u201d The bottle was designed as a collector item and looks like a stack of poker chips illuminated from the bottom. It gives homage to poker, another of the podcast hosts\u2019 favorite pastimes besides drinking tequila.<\/p>\n Buyers were told at that time that they could expect delivery by the end of summer. But summer came and went. The customers not only dished out the $1,200 but also paid taxes and other fees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n A TechCrunch reader told us that delivery was repeatedly delayed: pushed back to October, then November, and most recently, one person was told the delivery would be \u201cafter November,\u201d according to a letter seen by TechCrunch from the distributor Flaviar<\/a>, the spirits marketplace handling distribution.<\/p>\n