time to play the "can you name this style by the pictures" game.

Maibock aged in oak.

Tripplehazard already got the style (IPA, not red). No one has the adjunct yet, but it isn't rye.

drainbamage said:

Tripplehazard already got the style (IPA, not red). No one has the adjunct yet, but it isn't rye.

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Awwwwwslipped right on by me....so I see that tripplehazard had pa, so.....is it Stone's PA with coriander?

Stone R&R Coconut IPA

Honey ipa

No to all. The adjunct is an ingredient usually reserved for a different alcoholic beverage.

drainbamage said:

No to all. The adjunct is an ingredient usually reserved for a different alcoholic beverage.

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Oak aged ipA

Dogfish head 61 minute. Graaaaapes

TCGoose said:

Dogfish head 61 minute. Graaaaapes

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Bingo! You're up.

Edit: this is a blend of three beers, treated in a special way. Guess two out of three styles and the "special treatment" this should be fun!!

Well.... this may go on fir a while. A barley wine brewed with saison yeast then oak aged. :/

Special treatment = cask conditioned?

Cask conditioned blend of English ales? Bitter? Mild? ESB?

Cask conditioned Belgian Tripel IPA

Two of the styles have been mentioned, but not in the same post. The special treatment has not been mentioned.

Fruited tripel barleywine

bitter barleywine tripel with extra wild yeast or bacterial fermentation

Some of these guesses sound really good. Y'all have honed in on one of the styles... Hint: all three beers in the blend have a similar appearance/color.

Soured, ESB BarleyWine

Saison barlywine esb poured from a beer engine

Bitter/Flanders Red(sour)/English IPA with fruit syrup

If youre going to put up something this difficult you gotta be on top of giving some hints and narrowing down the field by telling us our answers are wrong! Help us out!!

Each of the last three guesses has one of the styles. It's not soured. And no one has guessed the special treatment

Dry-hopped ESB/Tripel

You're getting colder...

Dry-hopped Bitter Golden Barleywine

I have no idea if that's possible, just putting styles together at this point...

Could the special treatment be freeze concentration? Or am I taking your last hint too literally

Ha! Way too literal. I'm trying to give hints without just giving the answer away... The special treatment is a commonly used technique for beers with extended "shelf life"

Bonus hint: two of the beers are ales, one is malty, one is hoppy. The third beer is a lager that tends to be on the strong side for lagers...

Wait I think I got it!

Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Brewer's Reserve Grand Cru

Oak-aged Bigfoot barleywine, SN Celebration Ale, and SN Pale Ale, dry hopped after blending

Is one of those a lager?

Hmmm, never mind; that beer doesn't have a lager in it. Drat! Even the color seemed a good match.

chocotaco said:

Wait I think I got it!

Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Brewer's Reserve Grand Cru

Oak-aged Bigfoot barleywine, SN Celebration Ale, and SN Pale Ale, dry hopped after blending

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You're very close. You've got two of the styles there (barley wine and IPA), but not the special treatment...

Barley wine IPA bock soured?

You've got all the base beers. Now you just need the special treatment. Not soured. Oak aged is pretty close...

TCGoose said:

You've got all the base beers. Now you just need the special treatment. Not soured. Oak aged is pretty close...

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Bourbon or barrel aged barley wine IpA bock. Sounds much better than sour haha.

Dave37 said:

Bourbon or barrel aged barley wine IpA bock. Sounds much better than sour haha.

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Yep!! It's Anchor's Our Barrel Ale. A blend of their bock, liberty ale, and barleywine, aged in Anchor Distilling Old Potrero whiskey barrels

Nicee that was a tough one! Never wouldve got it without the rest of the guys guesses and your hints. Sounds pretty complex. Something id either love or hate. What did you think of it?

I will post something up soon. Unless one of you guys who helped guess this one have a good one. Feel free and post it up!

Cheers

Yeah I knew it wouldn't be easy.... I thought it was great. Best way to describe it is like a shot of really good bourbon in a pint of anchor steam, except it was 8.5% and you didn't even get a hint of alcohol in the flavor.

TCGoose said:

Yeah I knew it wouldn't be easy.... I thought it was great. Best way to describe it is like a shot of really good bourbon in a pint of anchor steam, except it was 8.5% and you didn't even get a hint of alcohol in the flavor.

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Sounds good. Is it available in bottles or even out of the brewery?

From what I can tell it's not bottled and is a fairly limited (annual?) release. I had it a bar near my apartment and only tried it because I'd never heard of it. Not sure where else it's available.