Official tasting pictures thread

[Number45]

New Year's tasting with three other beer lovers.

Notes:

• Utopias was brought by a fried who just got engaged, saw it in the store, and bought it for the night. We drank the whole thing between the four of us! Well, three of us drank like 90% of it while the other crashed and went to bed at like 11. What can you do, the newly engaged insisted we finish it. Sometime you take one for the team in situations like that. (Also, it was stupid good, my first time having Utopias.)

• This freshest batch of Anna is crazy delicious. Seriously great.

• Moat Water was the best non-Huna CCB stout I've had. Zhukov doesn't do it for me and most of the barrel aged ones are sickeningly sweet to em. This was awesome. Chocolate, roast, maple.

• BoT '13 is awesome.

• CBS still great. Not any real "maple" taste, but it was like a creamy, silky, sweet, thick KBS. Lots of barrel still. Loved it.

• Rodenbach Caractere Rogue was BY FAR the best Flanders Red I've had. Absolutely great, tons of fruit and sublime balance. I'd love more of this.

• My first time having Darkness, phenomenal stout. Hoppier than I thought, but very balanced. Can't wait to try it aged (a friend has a four-year vertical).

• Blue Lobster ... my first time with their stuff. The growlers were Brown Eyed Girl (brown ale) and Excess: Galaxy (DIPA, galaxy hops). Both were fantastic. Blindfolded, the DIPA could have passed for a HF IPA. Same silky mouthfeel, great aroma. BEG was also very good. BUT, Celtic New Year (port aged Scotch Ale) missed the mark. Didn't even taste barrel aged to us. As a Scotch Ale it wasn't bad, there was some good malt presence and a bit of smoke. It was far from remarkable though...and we had high hopes after the growlers. I'd definitely make the trip to Blue Lobster for growlers, they were great.

 

[lopejuice1]

Had a much needed 9 days off over the holidays. Been a stressful month so I made it a point to do a little extra celebrating all week. Nothing crazy, just a bunch of beers I've been wanting to try. The Parabola vert was the only one we actually planned!

Parabola 2-4. Personally I liked the 13, 11, 12 in that order. The fresh one was just so damn good and the 11 was super smooth, way less heat. Didn't love the 12.

and this one is from yesterday morning (afternoon?). I call it "The Hangover Part II"

 

[blue_bleeder]

Had a bunch of family over for some porters, stouts and barley wine. They are even more noobs than I in the tasting game. It was fun. Loved the reaction to the Guinness. Wasn't that long ago that it was considered to be a "stouty" beer by my dad and brothers. All of them commented on how tasteless it was.

 

[InebriatedJoker]

2008 old guardian

 

[ASUBeer]

and this one is from yesterday morning (afternoon?). I call it "The Hangover Part II"

Dat jar of hops and funny looking flower vase.

 

[beersis81]

A little playoff eve tasting before freezing our asses off at Lambeau tomorrow.

 

[ASUBeer]

A little playoff eve tasting before freezing our asses off at Lambeau tomorrow.

I can't even imagine being at that game. So damn cold.

 

[Adam Jackson]

At our most recent tasting, Colin decided to saber an Oude Lambiek....he was not successful

 

[Adam Jackson]

Tasting last night with a few people on Talk Beer. Thanks everyone. This was one of the best tasting i've been invited to attend.

 

[Adam Jackson]

MORE

 

[CruisaC]

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Tasting notes, favorites, surprises?

 

[beersis81]

I can't even imagine being at that game. So damn cold.

Yeah, it's going to be brutal. At least the high has been revised to something above zero instead of the -11 from earlier in the week!

 

[brian4beer]

Great tasting followed by snowball fight in the basement.

 

[Michigan1]

Great tasting followed by snowball fight in the basement.

Standouts? Both good and bad, please!

 

[brian4beer]

My recollection from the tasting:

SAM is one of the most amazing and complex beers I have ever had.
VSB is very good but SHBRL is better side by side by a lot I thought
K13 is worth the hype
Izzy was holding up very well (at least this bottle)
Festina Lente still had a very nice peach smell to it but was rather acidic. Fun to try and was enjoyable.
BBPT5- this rare first edition was unfortunately way past its prime and was an oxidized drain pour for me.
OGV 03 tasted great and was much cheesier and funkier than the 07

 

[Dogfishjoey]

good nothing amazing though.


fantastic, open now!


great, lives to the hype


abyss 12(i think?) great stout

 

[jmgrub]

Here's some grainy cell phone video of yesterday's holiday/new year/end of finals tasting.

 

[MikeG1]

Starting line-up for today's games:

 

[Lefty Hyzer]

Great tasting followed by snowball fight in the basement.

i made this awesome flipagram for last night. Great song. Lol

 

[beersis81]

Tailgating at Lambeau.

 

[drbenzo1]

I hosted a tasting at my house yesterday. A big thanks to all who came and shared their great beers and good times! Cheers!

We also created our own Friendship Blend. And it was delicious...

 

[Calcifer]

Solo 4 beer side by side (by side by side) blind tasting. Guessed Jai Alai and Head Hunter correctly while mixing up Heady Topper and Pliny the Elder. All were less than a month old. Pliny came out on top, followed by Heady, Head Hunter, and finally Jai Alai. Sorry Florida!

 

[DanzBorin]

Head Hunter is MUCH > Jai Alai

And obviously Heady and Pliny will win out over the "singles".

 

[montrealbcr89]

oldp0rt and I welcomed Jonathan back from India last night with a couple nice bottles:

Proprietor's and VSB stole the show. CD7 was a bit of a disappointment and had a yogurty/buttery smell and mouthfeel to it. Perhaps a weird phase. In any case, a very fun night, as usual!

 

[CarolinaKevin]

Voodoo tasting from last night....

 

[Adam Jackson]

I'm editing photos taken with my real camera, but here's a preview of what we had last night.

https://untappd.com/venue/531762/photos

BCS 2005-2013 and every variant and coffee plus a lot of great other stuff. Long night 5pm to 3am.

 

[oldp0rt]

I'm editing photos taken with my real camera, but here's a preview of what we had last night.

https://untappd.com/venue/531762/photos

BCS 2005-2013 and every variant and coffee plus a lot of great other stuff. Long night 5pm to 3am.

I did the same not too long ago with the vintages of bcbs and the variants. Always a good time.

 

[Adam Jackson]

I did the same not too long ago with the vintages of bcbs and the variants. Always a good time.

It was insanity. But we took our time and half of the people had never had BCS before which was awesome.

 

[Number45]

I'm editing photos taken with my real camera, but here's a preview of what we had last night.

https://untappd.com/venue/531762/photos

BCS 2005-2013 and every variant and coffee plus a lot of great other stuff. Long night 5pm to 3am.

Awesome! Can't wait to see the full details on this one. Since I couldn't make it to this (thanks again for the invite though), I'll be sure to keep you in mind when we do the 07-13 vertical I have. Would love to add some variants in there too obviously. Hope it was a blast!

Which single beer was the standout?

 

[Adam Jackson]

Awesome!Which single beer was the standout?

For BCS, rare was still the best but only marginally so. 13 coffee is so freaking good. Vanilla is pretty faded and 05-09 BCS didn't hold a candle to 10-12. Prop so just special everyone enjoyed that a lot