Red Mosquito

Had two bottles of Bifrost by Elysian brewery (Seattle) last night. That shit packs a punch.

By the way could not find Pliny anywhere in Mountain View CA last month.

Headed to the Festival of Barrel Aged Beers tonight. Every barrel-aged beer you can imagine is there, including all the whales (e.g., Chocolate Rain, BA Abraxus, 2014 Bourbon County variants, etc.). This could get ugly.

Chris_H_2 wrote:Headed to the Festival of Barrel Aged Beers tonight. Every barrel-aged beer you can imagine is there, including all the whales (e.g., Chocolate Rain, BA Abraxus, 2014 Bourbon County variants, etc.). This could get ugly.

Enjoy man!

About two thirds of the way through the GABF session this year I decided it would be a good idea to target barrel aged offerings. I certainly enjoyed a ton of BA barleywines and stouts but it did absolute shit on the memory; that being said Barrel Aged 666: Sympathy for the Devil was tremendous.

I just paid close enough attention to the beer menu at one of the bars I go to and discovered they fill growlers.

They currently have Harvest Ale on tap.

Im pretty excited about this, folks.

oasisfan35 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Headed to the Festival of Barrel Aged Beers tonight. Every barrel-aged beer you can imagine is there, including all the whales (e.g., Chocolate Rain, BA Abraxus, 2014 Bourbon County variants, etc.). This could get ugly.

Enjoy man!

About two thirds of the way through the GABF session this year I decided it would be a good idea to target barrel aged offerings. I certainly enjoyed a ton of BA barleywines and stouts but it did absolute shit on the memory; that being said Barrel Aged 666: Sympathy for the Devil was tremendous.

This was really solid. We had a our fair share of Goose Island Bourbon County. They did some cool things with some of them. They had the regular BCBS on nitro, some cold infused with Intelligentia coffee, as well as some aged in Templeton rye barrels that was absolutely incredible.

As for the 2014 Bourbon County variants, by far the best was the vanilla rye. I was little disappointed in the Proprietors -- it was a huge cinnamon bomb (I felt like I was getting diabetes while drinking it).

We had the Sun King Sympathy you mentioned -- pretty stellar indeed. No luck on the BA Abraxus -- it kicked about 15 minutes into it.

For us, the coolest part of the night was the sours. They had an outfit there out of St. Louis called "Side Project." They had probably the best sours I've ever had called "Rasp." I was also surprised at how good the New Belgium sours were, as well as a Bell's sour called "Wild One" -- aged in oak wine barrels. They don't typically bottle it, so it was cool to have on tap.

forget about it guys.....

this years batch is excellent...I'm going to buy about 10 more today

Doug, have you seen Jack Russell Brewing anywhere in socal?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Doug, have you seen Jack Russell Brewing anywhere in socal?

I've heard of it but have not seen it around..is it any good?

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Doug, have you seen Jack Russell Brewing anywhere in socal?

I've heard of it but have not seen it around..is it any good?

Yeah I visited that brewery years ago in Camino, CA. Good stuff but can't get it out here. They are still in business so they must be doing something right.

I love Deschutes.

That is all.

"that is all" has got to stop

I really enjoy these:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I really enjoy these:

This is really popular down here. Damn New Englanders

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I really enjoy these:

This is really popular down here. Damn New Englanders

Interesting. I had no idea how widely it's distributed.

A growler of Harvest Ale.

Rockin this tonight. Delicious.

gross

That stuff is nasty, BRLB

I enjoy it but maybe Im so drunk it just doesn't matter.