2015 Bourbon County releases

[stupac2]

No barrel-aged beer is exactly the same every year. It baffles me why anyone thinks that BCBW tasting different from KH (which is something you can't even test, and memory on this **** is so fallible as to largely worthless) means that they're significantly different beers while BCBS is the same year to year. We even talk about BCBS's variance every year... It's perfectly possible to believe that KH is basically the same as BCBW while being the best "batch" of it, in the same way you could think that, I dunno, 2011 BCBS was the best so far or whatever.

 

[sacrelicio]

No barrel-aged beer is exactly the same every year. It baffles me why anyone thinks that BCBW tasting different from KH (which is something you can't even test, and memory on this **** is so fallible as to largely worthless) means that they're significantly different beers while BCBS is the same year to year. We even talk about BCBS's variance every year... It's perfectly possible to believe that KH is basically the same as BCBW while being the best "batch" of it, in the same way you could think that, I dunno, 2011 BCBS was the best so far or whatever.

No I think KH was an entirely different recipe and it just isn't the same.

 

[stupac2]

No I think KH was an entirely different recipe and it just isn't the same.

Is there any evidence whatsoever of that?

 

[sacrelicio]

Is there any evidence whatsoever of that?

None.

 

[wyatt1]

Is there any evidence whatsoever of that?

I read it on the Internet.

 

[wyatt1]

Someone could probably check, right. Just buy a dusty King Henry off the shelf in Kentucky.

 

[boogercrack]

The schrodingers cat of barleywines.

 

[Wassailwilly]

They should call it King OBAMA.

So the anti-InBev revolutionaries have a monarch to rebel against.

Fixed that for you

 

[beerman2]

Regarding the BCBS I've seen on the shelf:
2012 was 15%
2013 was 14.1%
2014 was 13.8%
2015 is rumored to be 13.5%...

It has been getting worse with the decreasing ABV as well.

 

[jbeezification1]

2014 had two different abv

 

[ChicagoNick]

Regarding the BCBS I've seen on the shelf:
2012 was 15%
2013 was 14.1%
2014 was 13.8%
2015 is rumored to be 13.5%...

It has been getting worse with the decreasing ABV as well.

2013 and 2014 had two different ABV batches. Meanwhile, BCS Coffee is everyone's favorite and its always a lower abv than regular. Was about 13% abv the last few years. So, if anything, the lower abv will make it more enjoyable for the masses.

 

[regularjohn]

my friends rep in ny said the suggested retail price for variants is gonna be the same as last year. so basically GI is saying hey we're gonna give you the shaft and you're gonna like it

 

[boogercrack]

You could always not buy it.

 

[regularjohn]

You could always not buy it.

hahahahah yeah that'll happen

 

[boogercrack]

Then youre not that upset.

 

[regularjohn]

Then youre not that upset.

 

[masterovkhaos]

I'm not buying the variants if they're over $20 for 16 oz. Actually maybe coffee. Not that other ******** though.

 

[RedCoffee]

Yeah at $25+ for 16ish ounces, I would hope it also makes your dick grow.

 

[boogercrack]

$25/16 is roughly per oz what mocha wednesday cost.

people snap that up, right

 

[RedCoffee]

Not this people.

 

[abawol01]

$25/16 is roughly per oz what mocha wednesday cost.

people snap that up, right

This is what someone I met that said they worked at GI said. "If The Bruery can get $1.50 an ounce, why can't we."

Edited because boogercrack figured out I am bad at math.

 

[boogercrack]

This is what someone I met that said they worked at GI said. "If the Bruery can get $.50 an ounce, why can't we."

OBJECTION!

HEARSAY!

(and you mean $1.50+/oz)

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Yeah at $25+ for 16ish ounces, I would hope it also makes your dick grow.

BCBS variants do make my dick grow. Even if it is temporary.

 

[ASUBeer]

Regarding the BCBS I've seen on the shelf:
2012 was 15%
2013 was 14.1%
2014 was 13.8%
2015 is rumored to be 13.5%...

It has been getting worse with the decreasing ABV as well.

This jives with my unsubstantiated opinion that they are mixing in non BA stout to make the volume go further.

 

[boogercrack]

Or lowering fermentables a little at a time to save material costs... the inbev way.

"It was a cooler season so not as much angels share"...

Sure.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Were you guys pissed in 2008 when Bourbon County was 13.5% ABV? Oh? You weren't into beer then? How cute.

 

[jbeezification1]

Were you guys pissed in 2008 when Bourbon County was 13.5% ABV? Oh? You weren't into beer then? How cute.

A couple of things:

This isn't a thread about 2008 BCS. It's possible to be mad at more than one thing. There weren't nearly as many people who knew about BCS in 2007, where there would be outrage over the drop in ABV. What was Goose Islands distribution in 2007? Maybe 1/8 what it is today. Nobody cared about the change in ABV in 2008 because it really only affected a small percentage of the people this change affects.

I'm sure a thread about the increase in price per ounce in Texas Beer Refinerys kegs would be as popular as a thread in 2008 discussing the lower ABV in Bourbon County Stout.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

A couple of things:

This isn't a thread about 2008 BCS. It's possible to be mad at more than one thing. There weren't nearly as many people who knew about BCS in 2007, where there would be outrage over the drop in ABV. What was Goose Islands distribution in 2007? Maybe 1/8 what it is today. Nobody cared about the change in ABV in 2008 because it really only affected a small percentage of the people this change affects.

I'm sure a thread about the increase in price per ounce in Texas Beer Refinerys kegs would be as popular as a thread in 2008 discussing the lower ABV in Bourbon County Stout.

If a 1.5% ABV change over 3 years of a barrel-aged beer affects your actual life, I have some bad news for you.

 

[beerman2]

Were you guys pissed in 2008 when Bourbon County was 13.5% ABV? Oh? You weren't into beer then? How cute.

Actually it just wasn't distributed to my area in 2008. Notice how I said "Regarding the BCBS I've seen on the shelf:"

But congrats on being pretentious.

 

[LukeAleTime]

Actually it just wasn't distributed to my area in 2008. Notice how I said "Regarding the BCBS I've seen on the shelf:"

But congrats on being pretentious.

Technically he was being condescending...