FIB War Room

[Mugatu]

Or you can buy me a 6-pk of Tooth & Claw and I will give you a bottle...

Sold!

 

[JackieAnton]

Last day of Cthulhu Tuesdays. Rest in peace. Only the good die young. Goodnight sweet prince.

 

[middlebrow]

speaking of resting in peace (and not really FIB related but).....RIP pretty things

 

[jakeox]

If anyone's thinking of going to Dusek's tomorrow night give me a shout. I'm not positive I'm going but if I do it'd be cool to meet some folks there.

 

[Farnsworth]

If anyone's thinking of going to Dusek's tomorrow night give me a shout. I'm not positive I'm going but if I do it'd be cool to meet some folks there.

*Hrrrmmm, I wonder whats happening at Dusek's.... Lemme check their Facebook page.... Oh my.*



Yeah, you might be seeing me there.

 

[trickytunadicky]

If anyone's thinking of going to Dusek's tomorrow night give me a shout. I'm not positive I'm going but if I do it'd be cool to meet some folks there.

I'll be drankin at home, but I AM willing to meet for lunch any day this homiday season at the Christkindlemarkt for either latkes or DonerMen.

 

[jakeox]

I'll be drankin at home, but I AM willing to meet for lunch any day this homiday season at the Christkindlemarkt for either latkes or DonerMen.

I can certainly make this happen.

 

[trickytunadicky]

I can certainly make this happen.

Not even going to try to correct "homiday season." Deal.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

Will be at Beer Bistro this evening with some friends and the LT, if you are headed out there tonight come and say hey. Also might attempt to get some 2013 Prop at Publican this afternoon as well.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Will be at Beer Bistro this evening with some friends and the LT, if you are headed out there tonight come and say hey. Also might attempt to get some 2013 Prop at Publican this afternoon as well.

What time? Unsure when I am escaping work, but that's almost on the way home.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

What time? Unsure when I am escaping work, but that's almost on the way home.

Leaving LaGrange Park at 2:45 and headed to Publican, then headed over to Beer Bistro where Eric (guy from homebrew club who uses the stainless mini growler) reserved us a table.

 

[Alum]

Leaving LaGrange Park at 2:45 and headed to Publican, then headed over to Beer Bistro where Eric (guy from homebrew club who uses the stainless mini growler) reserved us a table.

Yeah, that Publican stuff has been real hush hush. I think they even deleted a tweet or two yesterday about it.

Wish I could join you. However, it appears my plans have changed for the day.

 

[IronDave]

Literally took me a minute to remember what the 2013 Prop adjuncts were - this beer **** getting too confusing

 

[Lansman]

Literally took me a minute to remember what the 2013 Prop adjuncts were - this beer **** getting too confusing

When I see Prop 2013 I can't define the adjuncts, but I think "Sweet but good, better than 2014, was drinking very well six months ago, likely just as good now".

 

[Unbreakabolt]

Damn actually leaving work now to pick up foodstuffs at PQM. Guess I'll have to roll back this afternoon.

 

[BobCobb1]

All over their Facebook page now it looks like. Good luck.

Had a bottle of 13 at Village Tap last week. Was good, but won't be seeking it out again if it keeps popping up around town. I think I probably have said that about every time I have it though, as coconut was nearly undetectable and was more of just a sweet-but-good BCBS as Lansman noted.

 

[Alum]

I'm not a doctor.. but I was always under the impression that Proprietors 13's level of coconut was dependent on when it was bottled and how much of said beer was left in the filling vessel? This theory was always due to the oily nature of coconut and how that flavor would be more inclined to raise to the top. Thus the high variability of said flavor in the bottles.

This could very well be 100% false.

I've always been a huge fan of 2013. My favorite of the Prop Series thus far. But one that definitely suffers from high variability.. possibly because of the reasons listed above. Or possibly for other scientific reasons I do not grasp.

 

[DanH11]

I'm not a doctor.. but I was always under the impression that Proprietors 13's level of coconut was dependent on when it was bottled and how much of said beer was left in the filling vessel? This theory was always due to the oily nature of coconut and how that flavor would be more inclined to raise to the top. Thus the high variability of said flavor in the bottles.

This could very well be 100% false.

I've always been a huge fan of 2013. My favorite of the Prop Series thus far. But one that definitely suffers from high variability.. possibly because of the reasons listed above. Or possibly for other scientific reasons I do not grasp.

The theory makes sense. I have had some bottles that the coconut was barely there

 

[middlebrow]

from what my foggy memory serves....they did one batch themselves toasting in their (or personal?) ovens. not sure bottle amount or number but they said it was taking too long so they reached out to a culinary school to help toast the second amount. as mentioned above, I think one batch is tasty and still holding coconut flavor (as I've had one recently and its still there, as well as a coconut oil slick on top), the other batch had almost no coconut a month later. does this sound right to anyone else?

 

[mdomask]

from what my foggy memory serves....they did one batch themselves toasting in their (or personal?) ovens. not sure bottle amount or number but they said it was taking too long so they reached out to a culinary school to help toast the second amount. as mentioned above, I think one batch is tasty and still holding coconut flavor (as I've had one recently and its still there, as well as a coconut oil slick on top), the other batch had almost no coconut a month later. does this sound right to anyone else?

I also thought there was a major crash addition of a **** ton more coconut across the board before bottling, since it wasn't tasting "coconuty" enough.

I also recall the culinary school thing (Kendall maybe?), but thought that the test batches were done with by the brewers and that the culinary school helped with the production version.

 

[middlebrow]

I also thought there was a major crash addition of a **** ton more coconut across the board before bottling, since it wasn't tasting "coconuty" enough.

I also recall the culinary school thing (Kendall maybe?), but thought that the test batches were done with by the brewers and that the culinary school helped with the production version.

ya, that seems more logical. strike my foggy memory story from the record.

 

[Tooch4321]

You kids and your Props...

 

[jdd419]

Prop '13 is great in all. But that chicken dinner and fries is the main reason to go to the publican. Oh man that is awesome.
Pork rinds were good too.

 

[BobCobb1]

For posterity's sake: $2/oz on variants at Sheffield's this year. BCBBW might have been $10/6oz but most were 12/6 and VR was 13/6.

 

[BobCobb1]

And not even to fault them, as it sold through as fast as it would have at $1/oz. Menus happened to not be printed and available until BCS began pouring at 6, so tough to say if would have had an impact had people known prices.

I will not be returning there unless prices are published ahead of time for something like this.

 

[ClCardinal84]

And not even to fault them, as it sold through as fast as it would have at $1/oz. Menus happened to not be printed and available until BCS began pouring at 6, so tough to say if would have had an impact had people known prices.

I will not be returning there unless prices are published ahead of time for something like this.

I just go for the Pulled Pork or Brisket Sheffield Style.

 

[daniel1]

Apparently the line may have started at LP Binny's? **** us all.

 

[JulianB1]

Apparently the line may have started at LP Binny's? **** us all.

Please let this be true.

 

[daniel1]

Please let this be true.

That's the best part. Beer is so ****** these days that this could easily be true. And now that they've said previous year's variants are available, not as part of a raffle but for people at the front of the line, this wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[Ckozl]

Over on Ba...looks like it's true. **** people