Jester King Thread

[TxUltraRunner]

How is Foudre b1 tasting?

Fantastic!!

 

[Lutter]

If you're out at Jester King this weekend it looks like they got the first shipment of NOLA beers in town (new to TX distro).

 

[boogercrack]

If you're out at Jester King this weekend it looks like they got the first shipment of NOLA beers in town (new to TX distro).

I bought some cans at my HEB Wednesday.

Austin, so behind the times

 

[Chadzero1]

If you're out at Jester King this weekend it looks like they got the first shipment of NOLA beers in town (new to TX distro).

I think caffeineTX brought one of their stone fruit sours to my bday last year, it was a great surprise. I would definitely pick up that cherry one if I was going out there.

 

[Chadzero1]

Anyone try Gammalux this past weekend?

 

[kmello69]

Hmmm...I'm here for the weekend. Might have to stop by JK tomorrow.

You picked the wrong weekend.

Something will release this weekend (because its going to rain)

Will it be Fen Tao, or the norseman? Only time will tell.....

 

[JGlitz87]

I hope the new money folks are scared off due to Gotslandrika and Gin. I can't make it this weekend, but this is the beer I have been waiting years for

 

[Steve2]

I hope the new money folks are scared off due to Gotslandrika and Gin. I can't make it this weekend, but this is the beer I have been waiting years for

Don't worry, I'm sure it'll trade for a 4pk of "rare" hops.

 

[SirDickButts]

You picked the wrong weekend.....

I sure as hell did.....****.

 

[Lutter]

So in for Viking Metal.

Hasn't come out for 4 years so #newmoney probably have never heard of it.

 

[thejukes]

Damn it. Gonna have to ISO this if my TX peeps flake on me (again).

Much excite.

 

[pldevo]

And another one...

I was looking to get some of this and Viking Metal, but I can't make it this weekend.

http://jesterkingbrewery.com/introducing-jester-king-biere-de-coupage

 

[Lutter]

And another one...

I was looking to get some of this and Viking Metal, but I can't make it this weekend.

http://jesterkingbrewery.com/introducing-jester-king-biere-de-coupage

Hey jeffstuffingsjk I want the sketch of the brewery on that label as a lithgraph for my office.

 

[pldevo]

For me, it is more of a wife issue than a money issue.

Saturday is our 1 year wedding anniversary, and last year I took her to American Solera the day after our wedding for our honeymoon (not even kidding).

 

[Lutter]

**turns on Weather Channel**

... .... ......... this might last 2 weekends.

 

[thejukes]

Hey jeffstuffingsjk I want the sketch of the brewery on that label as a lithgraph for my office.

Dude, YES!

 

[Lutter]

Viking Metal, Bier de Coupage, and now this on friday....

2017 La Vie en Rose
2 hours ago




This Friday, we’ll be releasing 2017 La Vie en Rose! La Vie en Rose is made with the “spent” raspberries from Jester King Atrial Rubicite. We take the fruit remaining from the refermentation of Atrial Rubicite, and steep a younger beer on the spent fruit. The result is a beer that is still fairly fruit forward, but not as intense as its predecessor.


2017 La Vie en Rose is 5.8% alcohol by volume, 12 IBU, 3.6 pH, and has a finishing gravity of 1.004 (1 degree Plato). It was packaged on June 27th and 28th, 2017.


2017 La Vie en Rose will be released when our tasting room opens at 4pm on Friday, September 1st. It will be available by the glass and in bottles to go (750ml/$18). We have about 5,000 750ml bottles available with a bottle limit of four (4) per customer per day. Aside from special events, La Vie en Rose will only be available at Jester King.

 

[Lutter]

Jester King don't **** around with fundraisers...



There's a reason these guys are the best brewery in Texas. Good people.

 

[Lutter]

Jester King pulling out all the stops this weekend....

Introducing Jester King 2016 Autumnal Dichotomous
4 hours ago

We’re pleased to introduce 2016 Autumnal Dichotomous, our farmhouse ale brewed with grilled pumpkin, fig leaves, wood sorrel, and horehound! Last fall, we carved pumpkins, grilled them, and added them to the mash (both flesh and seeds). We also picked leaves off of the fig tree growing beside the brewery, foraged wood sorrel and horehound at Jester King, and added them late in the boil.


As coincidence would have it, we have a pumpkin beer coming out this year more or less around the same time when all the pumpkin beers start hitting the shelves! Although, somewhat comically, our “pumpkin beer” was brewing in November of 2016 and bottled in January of 2017.


As a lot of you know, our beer is fermented with a mixed culture of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria. Our mixed culture is outside our direct control and can do a lot of strange, fun, and interesting things to the beer over time. Often, we’re just along for the ride, and our mixed culture takes us wherever it wants to go. In this case, the beer went through a very long refermentation in bottles and kegs, and went through a number of different phases. Finally, late-summer of 2017, we felt the beer was ready for release.


2016 Autumnal Dichotomous is 5.3% alcohol by volume, 37 IBU, 3.5 pH, and has a finishing gravity of 1.002 (0.5 degrees Plato). It was brewed on November 8th, 2016 and packaged on January, 24th 2017. It will be released on Friday, September 1st at 4pm at our tasting room. It will be available by the glass and and in bottles to go (750ml/$14). We have about 3,900 bottles available. There’s no bottle limit, and some of the batch will be distributed beyond our tasting room.

Pumpkin carving fall 2016

Sean Spiller with Fantôme pumpkin

Grilling pumpkins

Sean Spiller & Mike Calle

Fig tree beside Jester King

 

[pldevo]

jeffstuffingsjk Any word on the Zwanze lotto?

 

[Hookemhops13]

Do we know if Viking Metal or La Vie made it through the weekend?

 

[jacobbocce72]

jeffstuffingsjk Any word on the Zwanze lotto?

Ask and you shall receive...

 

[Digita7693]

$45 for 20oz of Cantillon? Did I miss the charity this is for?

 

[Chadzero1]

I feel like I've been slacking on making trips out there this year. Things I haven't tried from Jester King recently:
La Vie en Rose (what is this batch 4 now?)
Viking Metal b2
Autumnal Dichotomous '17
Hibernal Dichotomous '17
Biere de Couperage
Gammalux
Synthesis Analogous

And now....
Vague Recollection
No Spiders


Anyone have any opinions of the new stuff?

 

[thejukes]

$45 for 20oz of Cantillon? Did I miss the charity this is for?

$1/oz plus a glass, plus overhead.

Capitalist math checks out. Until UNICEF starts handing out Cantillon in Texas, Jester King are the people to see.

 

[jrstar96]

$45 for 20oz of Cantillon? Did I miss the charity this is for?

In the past they have donated all proceeds to Open the Taps, a group in Texas that works for better laws for consumers and brewers. I would guess same this year? jeffstuffingsjk

 

[Lutter]

In the past they have donated all proceeds to Open the Taps, a group in Texas that works for better laws for consumers and brewers. I would guess same this year? jeffstuffingsjk

Open the Taps hasn't existed for like 2+ years dude. CC: nathanmiller.

Last year it was the Texas Craft Brewers Guild. The ticket was $30.00 with a $15.00 donation (going to TCBF), but that price only included 1 pour, 1 glass, and free Antonelli's cheese (with the option to buy bottles/more pours).

This includes more pours with the ticket price.

 

[ExPimp]

I spent a stupid amount of money out there on Friday, all the 750 releases they have on deck along with a restock on Frederiksdal..... It was a ghost town too which was a nice change of pace after all the fruited sour releases.

 

[atxrax]

I feel like I've been slacking on making trips out there this year. Things I haven't tried from Jester King recently:
La Vie en Rose (what is this batch 4 now?)
Viking Metal b2
Autumnal Dichotomous '17
Hibernal Dichotomous '17
Biere de Couperage
Gammalux
Synthesis Analogous

And now....
Vague Recollection
No Spiders


Anyone have any opinions of the new stuff?

After having all of these (except this year's Synthesis) my favorite is Biere de Coupage. The re-releases (La Vie and Viking Metal) seemed similar to previous versions if you like those. Gammalux was a lot more bitter than I was expecting. Vague Recollection seems to have less fruit character than any of the other second-use fruit beers (I didn't like it much). No Spiders is exactly what it sounds like (lots of funk with nothing to hide it, not even carbonation). I definitely liked it more than Vague Recollection, but I also don't mind flatness (a lot of people do).

 

[Hookemhops13]

After having all of these (except this year's Synthesis) my favorite is Biere de Coupage. The re-releases (La Vie and Viking Metal) seemed similar to previous versions if you like those. Gammalux was a lot more bitter than I was expecting. Vague Recollection seems to have less fruit character than any of the other second-use fruit beers (I didn't like it much). No Spiders is exactly what it sounds like (lots of funk with nothing to hide it, not even carbonation). I definitely liked it more than Vague Recollection, but I also don't mind flatness (a lot of people do).

Biere de Coupage is great as well as La Vie and Viking Metal.

Was also a bit let down by Vague recollection but opened up a bit as it warmed.

Gammalux was good for a bottle but not jumping to grab another.

No spiders was awesome, I do prefer carb but still very good.

Didn't have any of the new Dichotomous.