Bottle Share Pictures

[mtnagel]

I organized a 7 year KBS vertical. We had 8 people drinking. We also compared to Sunday Morning Stout. And then we had a few beers after. Not pictured but we also drank a growler of Alpine Duet and some home brew.

 

[BGBC]

I organized a 7 year KBS vertical. We had 8 people drinking. We also compared to Sunday Morning Stout. And then we had a few beers after. Not pictured but we also drank a growler of Alpine Duet and some home brew.

Well, how did the years rank? And where did SMS fall in that lineup?

 

[mtnagel]

I can't rank them. My palette isn't that refined. I think there wasn't much difference between '09 and '11 - '13. Some liked the 9 or 11 the best. The '10 had a weird caramel note that some liked and some didn't. Oddly enough we had some extra of all years and poured them together and that one was amazing. Sort of took the best things from all the years I guess. Bizarre I know.

I know a lot of people say not to age coffee beers, but it still was an amazing beer with some age. And I know some have said that Sunday Morning Stout was better, but I disagree after having them side by side.

 

[sweetcell]

And I know some have said that Sunday Morning Stout was better

i'm not one of them, neither is my buddy with whom i did the side-by-side of this year's versions. SMS was really nice, and i'm not certain that KBS was worth the price difference, but KBS was the winner for us.

 

[mtnagel]

I wonder if people saying it aren't doing side by side comparisons.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

I wonder if people saying it aren't doing side by side comparisons.

Seems like a lot of people that preach the SMS is better are located in PA (coincidence?). Personally, I like SMS, but not any better or worse than the past couple years KBS. SMS is more bitter, in your face coffee and little barrel/chocolate, KBS is more balanced between all the flavors. Both good, just depends on the mood I guess. It seems like KBS is falling off the past 2-3 years though, I would put 2012 and earlier KBS over SMS easy.

I did a 6 year vertical a couple years ago, I think it was 08'-13'. I found the coffee to fade off more noticeably after a couple years than from fresh to 2 years. 3+years was more smooth rich/chocolatey/bourbon. Personally, I like the fresh better due to the fresh coffee and bourbon flavors.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

A couple friends stopped by Sunday so I had a little impromptu share with some bottles I had cold:
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[skeezerpleezer]

Well, this was fun:
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[ivegot2legs]

This was a late night, with only 6 people. And of them, one doesn't drink sours and one doesn't drink stouts.

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[BeerMeDuffMan]

This was a late night, with only 6 people. And of them, one doesn't drink sours and one doesn't drink stouts.

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How good was that Madagascar? I loved that one.

 

[blizzard]

This was a late night, with only 6 people. And of them, one doesn't drink sours and one doesn't drink stouts.

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Strong work right there.

 

[ivegot2legs]

How good was that Madagascar? I loved that one.

It was mediocre at best. Everyone agreed it wasn't that well done. Mouthfeel and carbonation was off, artificial vanilla flavour and not much else. Would have been a decent homebrew, but not much more.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

It was mediocre at best. Everyone agreed it wasn't that well done. Mouthfeel and carbonation was off, artificial vanilla flavour and not much else. Would have been a decent homebrew, but not much more.

Oo I had a bottle that was really good, I thought it was great. Smooth and balanced, no syrupy flavors

 

[ivegot2legs]

Oo I had a bottle that was really good, I thought it was great. Smooth and balanced, no syrupy flavors

I feel like our bottle might have been off or something because it was pretty weird.

 

[igotsand]

Small share with some friends.

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[mtnagel]

I hosted a blind IPA/DIPA tasting last weekend. Here are the pictures, results and notes.

Random notes:
- Wicked Weeds makes amazing IPAs (as if we didn't know that). I don't know if Freak was the unanimous winner, but only one person didn't give it their highest score of the night. It was my favorite.
- I think On the Wings of Armageddon was a surprise for some, but I loved it the one other time I had it, so I knew it would do well.
- Country Boy's Cliff Jumper was a surprise for me. It was awesome.
- I'm surprised that only me and one other gave Sculpin high ratings. Everyone else rated it around their average score.
- Most of my rankings were what I would have expected except Fantasy Factory. I love that beer, but the one we drank wasn't very good. No date coding, so I can only assume it was old.
- Out of 19 beers in cans or bottles, only 10 had date codes. 2 had codes that appeared to be Julian dates. C'mon breweries, you can do better than that.
- I'm happy that my Sculpin clone was rated close to the real thing by most people. I would have liked the score to be higher, but apparently I found 5 people that don't love Sculpin. My other home brew didn't fare so well.
- When hosting a blind tasting, it pays to be prepared. I had the cups prepared with labels with random codes on them. I had the tasting ballots printed out. I'm shocked how well it went as I assumed I'd eventually screw something up due to drinking. But that leads to...
- ~2 oz is plenty for each sample to avoid getting too drunk. We did 24 beers over a few hours and I was fine until we started cracking big beers and finishing off the leftover IPAs. And Kroger's 3 oz "bathroom" cups worked really well for this. (sorry environment for using so many cups, but they are going in the recycling bin and hopefully they actually get recycled).
- If anyone wants to dig into the data, it's here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QSCgLCFLix-QCML4y2CgedB9VE7lEUVyYS5KYF9pQmM/edit?usp=sharing

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Six friends came over to my house yesterday for a bottle share. We threw down pretty good. Needless to say, Sunday was much more fun than Monday
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[blizzard]

Six friends came over to my house yesterday for a bottle share. We threw down pretty good. Needless to say, Sunday was much more fun than Monday
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Damn, too bad you couldn't find anything good to open with your friends.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Small pre-Casey release share last night with a few friends:
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[Rivenin]

Birthday bottle share

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Last night was fun. The Apple Brandy Mexican Cake was killer:
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[mikeysab]

No VR?

 

[skeezerpleezer]

No VR?

That's in a couple weeks

 

[hezagenius]

This was from last week. Mostly stouts. Long night.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Small share yesterday
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[mtnagel]

Had a bottle share at our house last night to celebrate our birthdays. Here's what was opened.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Threw down pretty good last night:
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[skeezerpleezer]

Round 2 tonight:
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[skeezerpleezer]

Cracked in a few last night. The 1966 vintage Rodenbach was surprisingly still quite good. Aaron, cork and cage La Folie, and Pappy Jesus were the top 3.
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[Blurryface]

Did it up pretty good before a buddy moves out of the country.