Mystery beer from grocery store

[ChshreCat]

One of the grocery stores I go to has a clearance bin for beer and wine. I like to check it out anytime I'm there because they often put beers in there that they think are "getting old" and sell them cheap. Things like Orval. Good deals to be had.

So, a couple days ago I stop in and there's a bomber in there. With no label.

I look at the cap, and it's plain gold.

Only marking on it was a $1.29 price sticker.

Well, you know I HAD to buy it! I'm not gonna be able to let this pass! Who could pass up a bottle of mystery beer?!?

Gonna open it tonight.

 

[jonmohno]

Let us know what you "think" it is.The shape of the bomber may help? I would get frustrated if i didnt know what it is,like go all out and find out what they discontiued ,just to know if you drank it and didnt know. Ya know? I gotta know,now.Does it have a belgian lip? Blind taste testing sounds like a pretty fun game,really.

 

[Bamsdealer]

Any clues on the bottle... Raised numbers or letters?

 

[ChshreCat]

Nope. No markings at all. A little sharpie on the cap is all.

 

[amandabab]

none of the stores here have mystery bottled beer.

There is a tap house that sells "keg dregs" on thursday night for $3.99 a liter, bring your own growler.
You pay your money and take your chances.

 

[ChshreCat]

It's kinda... overcarbed. Strange.

First pour looked like this:


Gave it a few minutes to calm down and tried another pour:

 

[urbanmyth]

Cheap, aged Orval? I may have to take a trip out west and load up!

 

[Bamsdealer]

Maybe a home brew found it's way in there. Gold cap, no label, it could have been a sample to an employee. Second shift found it with no label and slapped a sticker on it. Look for clues in the sediment...

Hope it's good, whatever it is.

 

[Bamsdealer]

Lol... My guess is a homebrew someone overcarbed and decided to give a few customers some excitement.

 

[jonmohno]

Awating the taste test:::

 

[amandabab]

did the gold cap say "williams homebrew supply" on the underside?

 

[ChshreCat]

It's tasty. The one clue I had was looking at the selection, the only plain gold caps were on Elysian Brewing beers. Tastes like a good IPA. Can't see them selling a homebrew, so I think it's probably this'n:
http://elysianbrewing.com/beer/immortal.html

 

[Mongrel]

I've seen lots of the smaller breweries here in the NW using the gold caps. Elysian still uses them? Hell of a price for one of their beers. I really need to pick up some more Dragonstooth Stout.

 

[Bamsdealer]

I god a case of their jasmine ipa bombers on clearance and remember a huge head on it as well. Very well could be.

 

[SouthBay]

I second the elysian jasmine ipa.

Fwiw, try their mens room red if you can find it!

 

[Proboscidea]

"M" eh? Any chance that could be the name / brewery? http://www.servingbeers.com/alcohol/m.html <---- that list should narrow it down to approximately 8,492,375 "m" beers ...

How do you know it's not a "W"?

 

[jonmohno]

Except for the m in immortal, i dont see the m or w in Elasian brewing? At least significantly. A brewery would not mark it with a m or w in sharpie,a homebrewer would or a retail employee, i mean is that even legal really with no label?

 

[Bamsdealer]

A brewery would not mark it with a m or w in sharpie,a homebrewer would.

This. I doubt they were selling home-brews, but that's not to say one found it's way on their shelf. Elysian is my second guess.

 

[ChshreCat]

Except for the m in immortal, i dont see the m or w in Elasian brewing?

Unless you turn it sideways, and it becomes an "E".

And it definitely wasn't legal to sell it to me with no label, but I had to take the challange.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Elysian's Jasmine IPA has an unmistakable jasmine flavor. Unless CC noticed it, I highly doubt this was Jasmine IPA.

If you haven't had Jasmine IPA, seek it out. It's outstanding. If you've never tasted jasmine, buy some jasmine rice in the Asian section the next time you're grocery shopping. Try the rice before sampling the beer.

 

[ChshreCat]

Oh, and no sediment in the bottle. This has been filtered like most micros and macros are.

 

[ChshreCat]

Elysian's Jasmine IPA has an unmistakable jasmine flavor. Unless CC noticed it, I highly doubt this was Jasmine IPA.

If you haven't had Jasmine IPA, seek it out. It's outstanding. If you've never tasted jasmine, buy some jasmine rice in the Asian section the next time you're grocery shopping. Try the rice before sampling the beer.

Had it and it's good, but this isn't that. This tastes like their Immortal IPA.

 

[pdxal]

Jasmine rice doesn't have jasmine in it. How does it taste like the flower of jasmine plants?
I didn't get the jasmine rice flavor in the IPA, are my taste buds worthless or something?

 

[pjj2ba]

Jasmine rice doesn't have jasmine in it. How does it taste like the flower of jasmine plants?

The same way Amarillo tastes/smells like grapefruit - it has the some of the same essential oils in it

 

[Bamsdealer]

Not to derail the thread... but think Jasmine tea, not Jasmine rice when talking about Esylian's Jasmine IPA.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Mystery's pretty much solved - everything's OT now. Regardless of the academia about jasmine rice vs jasmine flowers, Elysian's Jasmine IPA reminded me A LOT of jasmine rice, hence my suggestion.