FIB War Room

[furley]

a 4 pack of BA Expedition

a what now?

 

[duckyboycantfly]

I slept in, turned on my Switch, and the news blurb was something similar to "Best Games to Play while in Line."

I laughed.

 

[Tooch4321]

Just left New Glarus and they had 6 maybe 7 different R&Ds, I waited a total of 23sec to check out...

 

[SAISON FUCK]

a what now?

Yeah, Bell's bottles Barrel aged Expedition Stout. Who is Bell's? Never heard of em.

 

[furley]

Yeah, Bell's bottles Barrel aged Expedition Stout. Who is Bell's? Never heard of em.

i'm vaguely familiar with these words............... Esperanto? Jive?

 

[BobCobb1]

If anyone has any leads on wheatwine near Jeff Park or NW burbs that I could pass to Mrs Bob Cobb, thank you. I didn't make it out this morning and am about to hop on a flight to taiwan.

Also iso Taiwan recs.

 

[capnmike]

If anyone has any leads on wheatwine near Jeff Park or NW burbs that I could pass to Mrs Bob Cobb, thank you. I didn't make it out this morning and am about to hop on a flight to taiwan.

Also iso Taiwan recs.

Wrong direction but someone posted 45 mins ago on BA that Jewel on Kinzie downtown has unlimited orange, coffee BW, bramble and wheatwine.

 

[adidaswp]

Best year I had since 2014 for BCBS. Went to my local Jewel event at 3:30. Stood in line with a bunch of friends. Line was single file and chill. Started right at 7. Full allocation plus glass and book by 7:20 with a bottle of 2016. Really well done. I guess nobody went to the Binnys a quarter mile away until after Jewel so some of my friends hit that too. I went back to bed. No line cutting. No price gouging. Solid time.

Had a rather successful day as well. Got in line around 5ish. Got full allotment. Then breakfast, sample of few of our bottles and then back to bed.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

Slept in, got to Clybourn around 145, drank Wheatwine (really good by the way), Midnight Orange and put in a preorder for Reserve and ate lunch. Drank my 8 samples during the structured tasting, and helped finish a few leftovers before I went to close out my bar tab. Adon had bought me a pour of Prop, finished my leftovers, and now I'm home enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers.

Coffee Barleywine > Wheatwine > Midnight Orange > Reserve > Regular > Prop > Vanilla > Bramble for my tastes. I do think Prop / Vanilla / Bramble will benefit from some time in the bottle.

No bottles, but had a great day nonetheless.

 

[user 306237]

If anyone has any leads on wheatwine near Jeff Park or NW burbs that I could pass to Mrs Bob Cobb, thank you. I didn't make it out this morning and am about to hop on a flight to taiwan.

Also iso Taiwan recs.

Maybe slightly better rec than capnmike but the Walgreens in Wicker Park at North/Damen/Milwaukee had some wheatwine and coffee barley wine left when I was there about 30mins ago.

 

[mjohnson171]

I too had a rather successful day. I didn’t get in line. I didn’t get any BCBS. I didn’t buy anything, I did family stuff.

I may buy a bottle or two in a few months when cases of regular are just sitting around. Or I may not.

 

[Scalzo]

Midnight Orange is awful

unless you enjoy eating Oranges whole, rind and all. or the way it smells after spraying your entire house w pledge or orange crush mixed w bcbs

 

[user 306237]

Midnight Orange is awful

unless you enjoy eating Oranges whole, rind and all. or the way it smells after spraying your entire house w pledge or orange crush mixed w bcbs

 

[adidaswp]

Midnight Orange is awful

unless you enjoy eating Oranges whole, rind and all. or the way it smells after spraying your entire house w pledge or orange crush mixed w bcbs

I agree it definitely isn't for everybody.

 

[kodt]

I think they nailed the flavor profile on Midnight Orange. Whether you like it or not is a different story.

 

[vav1]

If anyone has any leads on wheatwine near Jeff Park or NW burbs that I could pass to Mrs Bob Cobb, thank you. I didn't make it out this morning and am about to hop on a flight to taiwan.

Also iso Taiwan recs.

Oh hi Jeff Park neighbor

Midnight Orange is awful

unless you enjoy eating Oranges whole, rind and all. or the way it smells after spraying your entire house w pledge or orange crush mixed w bcbs

I liked it more than vanilla ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[danbanana]

Coffee Barleywine > Wheatwine > Midnight Orange > Reserve > Regular > Prop > Vanilla > Bramble for my tastes.

This is good to hear. After my seCret spOt that no perSon could Torture or COnvince me to reveal in a town run by Brian Urlacher's brother, I was killing time meeting friends in Forest Park for dinner and discovered that the Famous there had non-Prop/Vanilla variants on the floor at 430p, with Bramble and Orange at inflated prices. So I grabbed a Wheatwine, Coffee BW, and the Orange (I'm a sucker for orange and chocolate). Looks like I might have made the right choice.

So yeah, as of this afternoon, that's a place to grab a Wheatwine if you're looking.

Drinking a regular now and I'm very happy with this years. Very boozy but it balances with chocolate/cola/vanilla.

 

[Scalzo]

So I grabbed... Orange (I'm a sucker for orange and chocolate). Looks like I might have made the right choice.

vav im assuming you tried Midnight Orange on tap... I've been hearing that bottles are worse.
All I can think of otherwise is that goose has a ton of variation between tap and bottles, and even between bottles.

 

[adhdjon]

I ran the lineup at Fulton including a few extras. Best to worst on the day:

Triple barrel - good lord that's a tasty deviant. It reminds me of what BCBS can be grown up. It's like vsod but with bcbs.

vanilla rye 14 - it's amazing just how much better the variants were back when they were being blended and brewed with real ingredients. It tastes like an oatmeal cookie with vanilla

prop 18 - a weird entry in that it has some shades of prop 16 (I got some smokey mapley sweetness) but this is a chocolate bomb. I don't feel like it's nothing you can't French press with regular so I'm okay not having a bottle

reserve 18 - a great improvement from the cloying knob creek reserve of last year. I wouldn't call this balanced or nuanced and it's hot, but it rides the spirit well and grew on me as I sipped

regular 18 - seems to lean towards an anise note this year. I wouldn't call it fruity (some people have) but more anisey. It's a great vintage. Regular is usually the best

coffee barleywine - dontdrinkbeer you got some 'splainin to do. This is a barleywine like my bcbs-crushing body is an Olympic athlete. I think the best comp is a beer called Founders Frangelic Mountain Brown. It's good, but life it is not.

wheatwine - I LITERALLY lost my **** laughing after my first sip. This beer tastes like High C. It's a ******* juice box. I mean maybe a really nuanced cherry pineapple box but still my kids might dig this.

midnight orange - I don't even know what to say...it definitely smells like candles but it legit tastes like those terrible orange chocolate candies your grandma dumped on you

vanilla - oh boy... Compared to the 14 VR.. Or even compared to what you can do with a French press....this was just extracty and kind of lame.

*BONUS* Vanilla & Midnight Orange cuvee - i don't know why goose island didn't figure this out themselves and bottle it. It tastes like an orange Creamsicle and is way better than the parts

bramble - just totally strips away the base and barrel. Someone I was with said cough syrup. I didn't get that vibe but it's an unbalanced mess and can't touch bramble or backyard.

Overall... I'm pretty content not chasing variants in bottles. This **** will be on tap or in bottles at Fulton for years to come and a lot of the variants in the past two years have been kinda meh and extracty...

I'd appreciate just regular, a reserve, prop, one properly done variant, and BW aged in proper barrels like in '13 and 14

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

I ran the lineup at Fulton including a few extras. Best to worst on the day:

Triple barrel - good lord that's a tasty deviant. It reminds me of what BCBS can be grown up. It's like vsod but with bcbs.

vanilla rye 14 - it's amazing just how much better the variants were back when they were being blended and brewed with real ingredients. It tastes like an oatmeal cookie with vanilla

prop 18 - a weird entry in that it has some shades of prop 16 (I got some smokey mapley sweetness) but this is a chocolate bomb. I don't feel like it's nothing you can't French press with regular so I'm okay not having a bottle

reserve 18 - a great improvement from the cloying knob creek reserve of last year. I wouldn't call this balanced or nuanced and it's hot, but it rides the spirit well and grew on me as I sipped

regular 18 - seems to lean towards an anise note this year. I wouldn't call it fruity (some people have) but more anisey. It's a great vintage. Regular is usually the best

coffee barleywine - dontdrinkbeer you got some 'splainin to do. This is a barleywine like my bcbs-crushing body is an Olympic athlete. I think the best comp is a beer called Founders Frangelic Mountain Brown. It's good, but life it is not.

wheatwine - I LITERALLY lost my **** laughing after my first sip. This beer tastes like High C. It's a ******* juice box. I mean maybe a really nuanced cherry pineapple box but still my kids might dig this.

midnight orange - I don't even know what to say...it definitely smells like candles but it legit tastes like those terrible orange chocolate candies your grandma dumped on you

vanilla - oh boy... Compared to the 14 VR.. Or even compared to what you can do with a French press....this was just extracty and kind of lame.

*BONUS* Vanilla & Midnight Orange cuvee - i don't know why goose island didn't figure this out themselves and bottle it. It tastes like an orange Creamsicle and is way better than the parts

bramble - just totally strips away the base and barrel. Someone I was with said cough syrup. I didn't get that vibe but it's an unbalanced mess and can't touch bramble or backyard.

Overall... I'm pretty content not chasing variants in bottles. This **** will be on tap or in bottles at Fulton for years to come and a lot of the variants in the past two years have been kinda meh and extracty...

I'd appreciate just regular, a reserve, prop, one properly done variant, and BW aged in proper barrels like in '13 and 14

/loves a four year old vanilla stout
/calls knob creek reserve “cloying”
/thinks the coffee barleywine is extremely lifelike
/wheatwine is HiC

Yeah that pretty much all I need to know. Pls start a janky Wordpress site for me

 

[sacrelicio]

/loves a four year old vanilla stout
/calls knob creek reserve “cloying”
/thinks the coffee barleywine is extremely lifelike
/wheatwine is HiC

Yeah that pretty much all I need to know. Pls start a janky Wordpress site for me

His assessment makes me feel better about staying home and getting jack ****, so there's that.

 

[pdurrrr]

im assuming you tried Midnight Orange on tap... I've been hearing that bottles are worse.

Had a bottle this morning and thought it was gross. Just had it at futon and thought it was great. Only one more data point but it jives with what you've been hearing

 

[Wino1]

I’m having an Orange right now. Honestly, I think the citrus flavor is quite muted. The barrel overpowers this. I was expecting something like Northwooda where the blueberry was obvious in every sip. It took me a good five sips in a row to really get any orange flavor.

It’s a fascinating beer to say the least

 

[vav1]

vav im assuming you tried Midnight Orange on tap... I've been hearing that bottles are worse.
All I can think of otherwise is that goose has a ton of variation between tap and bottles, and even between bottles.

Nope, bottle at room temp. I liked it a lot, but I love chocolate oranges.

 

[kbergen28]

Midnight Orange is weird, the pour I had at prop day had an insane amount of orange that I likened to a gummy orange slice you had dipped in chocolate. The pour I had this morning showed a lot more barrel and had very little orange and I liked it much more.

 

[adhdjon]

/loves a four year old vanilla stout
/calls knob creek reserve “cloying”
/thinks the coffee barleywine is extremely lifelike
/wheatwine is HiC

Yeah that pretty much all I need to know. Pls start a janky Wordpress site for me

<3

dontdrinkbeer to clarify I was saying coffee isn't lifelike (and hope to see it not in BIL). I also really enjoyed the wheatwine, it's just HiC.

I'll leave the janky wordpressing to the masters. I'm just a chicagoan fib, I shop at binnys.

 

[Tooch4321]

R&D Vintage 2017 was pretty ******* tasty, I drank a bottle to the dome. What’s this Bourbon County stuff you kids are all fussing about?

 

[Wino1]

Midnight Orange is weird, the pour I had at prop day had an insane amount of orange that I likened to a gummy orange slice you had dipped in chocolate. The pour I had this morning showed a lot more barrel and had very little orange and I liked it much more.

Yea I’m not sure how I’d feel about an orange chocolate bourbon bomb. I quite enjoyed the bottle I had; the subtle orange was a quality touch.

 

[Wino1]

R&D Vintage 2017 was pretty ******* tasty, I drank a bottle to the dome. What’s this Bourbon County stuff you kids are all fussing about?

It’s a sour IPA made by Heineken

 

[Tooch4321]

It’s a sour IPA made by Heineken

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