Official tasting pictures thread

[OakedCanuck]

So the wife is out of town this weekend.

Decided to have a little tasting while watching and celebrating the Kings Stanley Cup victory.....by myself.

Surprisingly operating at 100% this morning, no idea how that happened. And yes black_cascade I'm still alive.

 

[black_cascade]

So the wife is out of town this weekend.

Decided to have a little tasting while watching and celebrating the Kings Stanley Cup victory.....by myself.

Surprisingly operating at 100% this morning, no idea how that happened. And yes black_cascade I'm still alive.

#canadianpower

 

[ASUBeer]

So the wife is out of town this weekend.

Decided to have a little tasting while watching and celebrating the Kings Stanley Cup victory.....by myself.

Surprisingly operating at 100% this morning, no idea how that happened. And yes black_cascade I'm still alive.

Cuir is drinking really nicely, isn't it? I had a BA cuir a couple weeks ago and thought it was incredible.

Nice looking evening. Congrats on the cup.

 

[xnicknj]

We finished a keg of Carton Boat Beer so clearly we had to open these:

 

[Skittle34]

we put Cuvee Rene in that watermelon, it was delicious. I'm also the dork in the Sword shirt

 

[justXbeer]

 

[Jaminjohnson]

5 person tasting on Saturday
****** pictures are ******

Growlers were
Edward, Gandhi bot, and homebrew piña coladale that was surprisingly great

 

[disapowzment]

Bday tasting

 

[OakedCanuck]

Alright, so we had our 4 person Peach Tasting yesterday. Here are the final peach beers opened and rankings.

1. Peche N Brett 2014
2. Rum BA La Tache w/white peaches
3. Fantasia Batch 1
4. Chez Monus
5. V013
6. Fuzzy
7. Halia
8. Persica Blend 2
9. Persica Blend 1
10. Pechish wood
NR. Upland Peach (unanimous drainpour. I've had the kiwi and a few others and they were all absolutely ******* terrible. No idea why people like these. One of the worst beers ever). Doesn't even deserve a ranking.

It may look like I am being a homer with the top 3 rankings, however, these rankings were the consensus between the 4 of us (i.e. these were my last bottles so I'm not trying to up the "value"). The PnB was a ridiculous Peach bomb, bursting with peach, unreal how good it is.

We also opened sidecars (some kind of heavy beer to offset the tart peach beers) to have alongside the peach beers, as well as a few others that were laying around the fridge.

Rankings of sidecars.

1. BA Abraxas
2. BA First Nail (aka Rusty Nail)
3. Double Barrel Hunahpu

The others were 09 De Cam OG, 2010 cork Classic, Golden Blend. All three of which were amazing, especially that De Cam.

It was a fun tasting and thanks to anyone I traded with to land some of the Peach beers for this. I also made bourbon peach pulled pork sliders, peach turnovers, etc...was a good time.

Thanks for reading!

 

[Previously]

1. Peche N Brett

Which batch/year? I, too, really love that beer.

Looks like a great time! So glad SocalKicks was able to get you a Chez Monus to add to the lineup. Cheers!

 

[OakedCanuck]

Which batch/year? I, too, really love that beer.

Looks like a great time! So glad SocalKicks was able to get you a Chez Monus to add to the lineup. Cheers!

It was this years batch Eric, thanks for noticing, edited. And yes, many thanks to SocalKicks and the SoCal crew. I got 'em back though

 

[BeersMorgan]

Tree House Eureka
Dark Horse Smells Like a Safety Meeting
Broad Brook 7th Heaven
Tree House Julius
Ithaca Luminous
Night Shift Grove
Tree House Haze
Side Project Pulling Nails
Night Shift KBS#11
Bruery Sour in the Rye
New Glarus Serendipity
Night Shift Ever Weisse
Armand'4 Zomer
Trillium Fort Point
Scantic River American Ale
08 RR Temptation
Stone Ruinten
SARA Saison Bernice
Brewmaster Jack Mandarina Bavaria
Stone Enjoy By 7.4.14
Perennial Sump
Lawson's Maple Tripple
Maine Lunch
Boulevard Love Child #4
Hangar 24 Barrel Roll 3 Pugachev's Cobra
Goose Island King Henry
Goose Island Prop
Goose Island Vanilla
Goose Island Bramble
Taps Remy's Pappy
09 World Wide Stout
Deschutes Black Butte XXI
Deschutes Black Butte XXIII
Night Shift / NoDa Stop Collaborate and Glisten
Trillium Congress Street
Central Waters 16
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Hill Farmstead BA Everett

Saturday was a good day.

 

[justXbeer]

It was a delightful afternoon:

 

[BusinessSloth]

NR. Upland Peach (unanimous drainpour. I've had the kiwi and a few others and they were all absolutely ******* terrible. No idea why people like these. One of the worst beers ever). Doesn't even deserve a ranking.

Gonna have to agree with you. I had SR4 and it tasted like sour orange soda. I'm scared to try any others. I hear they're all acid bombs.

 

[GMRfx]

Gonna have to agree with you. I had SR4 and it tasted like sour orange soda. I'm scared to try any others. I hear they're all acid bombs.

Usually the nicest thing I can come up with when trying Upland fruited sours is - "I bet this would be really nice on a salad".

 

[justXbeer]

Usually the nicest thing I can come up with when trying Upland fruited sours is - "I bet this would be really nice on a salad".

These were Batch 1 2007 Uplands...I was really surprised on how well the mellowed out and drank well.

 

[BeersMorgan]

It was a delightful afternoon:

 

[user 306926]

It was a delightful afternoon:

 

[Michigan1]

It was a delightful afternoon:

Ok... Who brought the Bolt Cutter?

 

[LukeAleTime]

Bottle share amongst friends. Mostly Aus beers but some US/NZ and Euro stuff in the mix.

Edit: on counting - there are more US beers than Aus beers there.

La Wambrechies - Distillerie de Genievre Claeyssens
Ovilia Saison (Mandarin/peppercorn)
Coopers Vintage (07 and 10)
Lips of Faith Pluot and Paardebloem
Stray Dog - Birra Toccalmato
Six - Upright
Brotherly Love - Commons
Darma Brun-a - Loverbier
Vlad the Imp Aler - Cascade
Rodenbach 09
Chocolat - Fantome
Planet Rouge - Deschutes
Spontendoubleberry - Mikkeler
B2 Bomber - Bridge Road
Brux
Flemish Stout - Townshends
Beelzebubs Jewels - Holgate
Ninkasi Angel - Women of beer
Sunturner - Nogne O
His Majesty '12 - Yeastie Boys

 

[oldp0rt]

monday funday.

blueberry flora is tits. The Sarassin is pretty damn good too.

CBS has been worse. This bottle was good though especially for the age on it and what it was originally.

B001 consecration, way past it's prime.

hanssens kriek was an 04'. Very weird.

Night shift grove, not very great. Like most stuff from them, below average.

 

[BeersMorgan]

monday funday.

blueberry flora is tits. The Sarassin is pretty damn good too.

CBS has been worse. This bottle was good though especially for the age on it and what it was originally.

B001 consecration, way past it's prime.

hanssens kriek was an 04'. Very weird.

Night shift grove, not very great. Like most stuff from them, below average.

Was that batch 1 or 2 of Grove? Batch 1 was nice but 2 was much different and not very good

 

[spicecowboy]

Alright, so we had our 4 person Peach Tasting yesterday. Here are the final peach beers opened and rankings.

1. Peche N Brett 2014
2. Rum BA La Tache w/white peaches
3. Fantasia Batch 1

Assuming from this that Fantasia Batch 1 is far from a sour bomb at this point?

Got a bottle I was suspecting might be past it, given I don't remember a substantial peach presence when it was fresh.

 

[EnemyBrewer]

Assuming from this that Fantasia Batch 1 is far from a sour bomb at this point?

Got a bottle I was suspecting might be past it, given I don't remember a substantial peach presence when it was fresh.

Not at all a sour bomb. Very complex with a nice must and tart combo. Still plenty of peach to be had as well.

 

[BusinessSloth]

LOL GottaTickEmAll arrest photo on cake.

Srs?

 

[user 304971]

Srs?

Totes, looks liek his profile is also gone nao

 

[jmgrub]

I busted out our biggest waels first, nawmean?

 

[BusinessSloth]

Totes, looks liek his profile is also gone nao

what was he arrested for? I'm not knowledgeable about that drama.

 

[mjshearer1]

With GRDave and a couple other friends. Probably the best overall tasting I've been a part of.

 

[phishbfm]

#diabeetus

For me, it went b2<b3<b1<menage(all 3 together)