Official tasting pictures thread

[backfat]

I think your camera has vaseline on it...

 

[yamar68]

Annual xmas beer tasting.

Cleaning up this morning I counted 75 unique beers; 140 bottles.

Merry Christmas!

 

[rainer1]

That's not counting the multiple bud light platinum cases for beer pong, lone star light Uno, and other shenanigans. Rainer actually made it for every bottle throughout all four days with me *high five*

Jesus dude. Your poor liver.

Haha yall opened the persica. Was it buttery?

I checked into 149 beers Friday through Monday, and I did not check into the "punishment" beers.

Thanks for sharing the Persica but that was not a good bottle. It wasn't terribly buttery. It had a little bit of peach aroma but to me tasted like watered down fruit loops.

 

[beerindex]

Annual xmas beer tasting.

Cleaning up this morning I counted 75 unique beers; 140 bottles.

Merry Christmas!

There is a serious shortage of beards among your tasting group.

 

[unwiserflunky]

*anxiously awaits a hopstar post*

 

[sobeleg]

Not a bad evening with good people:

2012 Black Tuesday
2008 Old Numbskull
Allagash FV-13
Allagash Merveilleux
Trillium Pot & Kettle

 

[hopstar1]

Here's most of the aftermath from our Xmas Eve cellar draining party. There's a handful of things not pictured (namely the 3L of 2006 Roots Epic) because people wanted to take some of the empties home as souvenirs, but this is most of the stuff that was still sitting around the next morning.

The appetizers/palate cleansers:

L-R: Epic Fungal Pale, NG Serendipity, De Garde Imp Raspberry Bu, 2011 Bon Chien Magnum, Four Play B1, 2010 LA Judgement Day, De La Senne Wadesda #1

L-R: 2009 Van de Kaeizer Red, Pappy's Dark 2010, La Folie 2011, Pannepot Reserva 2005, Hellshire 2, Abacus B1, Xyauyu Fume

Firestone Anniversay 12-17

John Barleycorn 10-12, Cuvee de Champions 2008, St Gill 2011, NG Wild Sour, Captain Lawrence IIPA, Expedition Stout

Six Point Global Warmer, John Barleycorn 2009, Elaborative 1, Hanssen's Oude Kriek 2008, Boon Kriek 2007, Middlemess Benediction 2011, Dragon's Milk, Bigfoot 2013

Also not pictured are the several bottles of liquor we crushed including Old Weller Antique 107 proof, Jameson's Black Label, McMenamin's Monkey Puzzle, 2 bottles of Sobieski Vodka, and a bottle of Amaretto.

A couple tags so people who were there can see this: unwiserflunky BarrelAgedSour mihan117

Cheers!

 

[GMRfx]

Last night. A mostly sour tasting. A good amount of the dregs went into a 55 gallon barrel that hold a Flanders Red we brewed.

Sorry for the bad pic - I think this is the final list:
Cuvée Des Jacobins Rouge
Allagash Resurgum
BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2011
Hanssens Scarenbecca Kriek
Haandbryggeriet Sweet & Sour
Bruery - Oude Tart With Sour Cherries
Nøgne Ø/Jolly Pumpkin/Stone Brewing - Collababiere
Bruery - Saison Rue
2006 Panil Barriquée
Fantome - Saison
2009 Cascade Apricot
Jolly Pumpkin - La Roja
Russian River - T25
Bruery - Beauregarde
Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale - De Proefbrouwerij
New Glarus - Wild Sour Ale
Ommegeddon - Brewery Ommegang
Oak Aged Yeti - Great Divide (palate cleanser?)
Le Terroir - New Belgium Brewing
Barrel Select Cherry - Captain Lawrence
Allagash - Coolship Red
Allagash - FV13
Oude Quetsche Tilquin à L'Ancienne - Gueuzerie Tilquin
Militiagan - Dark Horse
La Folie - New Belgium
Lactobacillus Guava Grove - Cigar City Brewing
Zuur - Brewery Ommegang
2009 Geuze Mariage Parfait - Brouwerij Boon
Prairie Gold - Prairie Artisan Ales
Funk Metal - Jester King
2012 Madame Rose - Goose Island
not shown: A Growler of Fuzzy Baby Ducks - New England Brewing Co.

 

[Alex2]

Going down in an hour. Big thanks to all my traders who has made this tasting possible: Beerlistman , the multiple people who have traded me BCBCS including DrLoveMD (and many more), Compton25 , BusinessSloth , pmoney , and a couple of other traders who I don't think are on this site. A full lineup will be posted later tonight.

 

[buzzword]

blah blah blah

super fun. one of the best tastings I've been a part of in recent history - highlight for me was Atrial Gueuzicite. Tilquin Gueuze + anything is awesome.

thanks to Touch_My_BrettSacch for hosting and obiwan_k3n00bi and shelf_turd_ferguson for contributing.

 

[MrVonzipper]

Little share with my lil bro today

 

[Dogfishjoey]

Fight night/ small bottle share

 

[shelf_turd_ferguson]

blah blah blah

super fun. one of the best tastings I've been a part of in recent history - highlight for me was Atrial Gueuzicite. Tilquin Gueuze + anything is awesome.

thanks to Touch_My_BrettSacch for hosting and obiwan_k3n00bi and shelf_turd_ferguson for contributing.

Great, quite intimate share. Like any good share made up of internet strangers, we were sure to briefly touch on mandatory topics such as politics and religion.

The share was completely organized through talkbeer and was made up of people who had not met before (save people's +1's); a victory for growing talkbeer's community!

My two pics:

 

[barleywinefiend]

 

[OakedCanuck]

3 BRO's afternoon tasting while watching football. Side project = rar. Wat?

 

[tehzachatak]

Thanks for the correction. It looked like it was either 3 or 8 on the label, but we had no idea. Guess I need to do some investigating.

Had to be 6 or 7, 5 had the release number printed on the front label quite distinctly.

 

[Der Fuchs]

gulden drak bbl aged- meh
7th sun collab session ipa- nice delicate floral/citrus hop character
tilquin queche- love this beer
de cam oude lambiek 2/12- something was amiss, oxidation overtook the delicate flavors
wwbr- still holding strong
wwbo- (drink these now, the bottle was a crazy gusher)
wwby- crazy lemon bomb, bright and tart
wwbb- a shadow of its former self- birch is almost non existent
wwbi- the clear standout, blueberries are fading, but still awesome
wwbv- first time i had this, only 2 of 8 of us liked it (myself included)
cherry origins- sour cherry pie to the face!
adelberts 2012 bbl aged naked nun- i like this, more of a funky saison than a wit
atrial rubicite- always a pleasure one of my favorite JK offerings
velvet merkin- pretty meh, wanted more from it
anubis coffee porter- decent coffee, a little too much roast
hammer of the holy- smokey stout goodness
cycle/pegs nooner b4- crazy barrel heavy, too much so if you ask me

and some other misc debris not pictured

 

[blue_bleeder]

gulden drak bbl aged- meh

Sad feels. I have one of those in the beer fridge waiting for the right time. And it wasn't cheap...

 

[Der Fuchs]

Sad feels. I have one of those in the beer fridge waiting for the right time. And it wasn't cheap...

don't be too down. in all honesty i'm not a fan of the base beer either.

 

[thewimperoo]

Tasting from Saturday night included a Kriek-Off

Blind tasting with 8 Lambics and 1 American Wild and 1 sewer water

LambickX scored well along with all 3 of the 3F beers.

 

[BusinessSloth]

Going down in an hour. Big thanks to all my traders who has made this tasting possible: Beerlistman , the multiple people who have traded me BCBCS including DrLoveMD (and many more), Compton25 , BusinessSloth , pmoney , and a couple of other traders who I don't think are on this site. A full lineup will be posted later tonight.

how was the vanilla

 

[HenrikO]

Tasting from Saturday night included a Kriek-Off

Blind tasting with 8 Lambics and 1 American Wild and 1 sewer water

LambickX scored well along with all 3 of the 3F beers.

Sounds interesting - I'm planning a kriek-off too! Line-up will probably be Cantillon regular Kriek + Lou Pepe, 3F Oude, Schaarbekse and Intense Red, De Cam and Hanssen's. I'd be interested in more detailed tasting notes...

 

[Alex2]

how was the vanilla

Stupid good. Like someone opened the bottle and dropped some vanilla extract into it. Srs. It was incredibly prominent. WTF. I think I'm going to seek one more out because I couldn't believe how good it was. Rare, however, is still overrated or has fallen way off.

 

[thewimperoo]

Sounds interesting - I'm planning a kriek-off too! Line-up will probably be Cantillon regular Kriek + Lou Pepe, 3F Oude, Schaarbekse and Intense Red, De Cam and Hanssen's. I'd be interested in more detailed tasting notes...

We tried to do all similarly aged beer. So all of the bottles were from 2012-2013 releases. I'd say try to limit it to 4-6 beers if you want to be able to guess which is which. 9 was way too many and they all started to blend together as I was tasting. The Cantillons seemed a little off compared to other times I've had them. The '13 100% Kriek was very musty, and the Lou Pepe Kriek ('11 Sticker, '13 bottling) was super woody.

 

[MordorMongo]

Some of us TBers drank last night. No one gave a **** enough to snap relevant photos. We drank some sour beer and some stouts, some new IPA and some mead.

Good beer, good food, an Intihar sighting south of the Border, AND some **** done got broke.

LYMI to all. Rempo, clintonpuckett, muskabeatz, aasher, MarkIntihar

 

[MrVonzipper]

Little New Years share with DeaconFrost07 Alucard4 and Chris Johnson. Always a good time.

 

[muskabeatz]

Some of us TBers drank last night. No one gave a **** enough to snap relevant photos. We drank some sour beer and some stouts, some new IPA and some mead.

Oh I snapped pics, but I just post them to Instagram so the whole world can fap to them along with my topless mirror pics.

 

[xnicknj]

Stupid good. Like someone opened the bottle and dropped some vanilla extract into it. Srs. It was incredibly prominent. WTF. I think I'm going to seek one more out because I couldn't believe how good it was. Rare, however, is still overrated or has fallen way off.

I feel like all these mixed experiences have to be due to bottle variation or cellaring conditions. I've been able to try Vanilla and Rare 3 times each recently and every time it was different. The first 2 Rares I thought were a complete shell but then I had another one last month that was redonkulously good.

 

[MordorMongo]

Oh I snapped pics, but I just post them to Instagram so the whole world can fap to them along with my topless mirror pics.

Instawhat?

 

[Alex2]

Some palate cleansers in between and after the Boubon County variants.

Saison Bernice, Mmm.

Coffee Abraxas was great!