Official tasting pictures thread

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

WANT.

 

[Gene1]

$10/ea plus shipping, while they last. My role around here has grown to include merchandising.

*increases GrumpyOldTroll's inbox limits*

 

[BusinessSloth]

$10/ea plus shipping, while they last. My role around here has grown to include merchandising.

Can I get a discount for performing sexual favors with my claws?

 

[wscaffe]

Can I get a discount for performing sexual favors with my claws?

A CJ?

 

[GrumpyOldTroll]

*increases GrumpyOldTroll's inbox limits*

Good thing I have tomorrow off work.



Time to go look for some bubble wrap.

 

[cosmicevan]

DAVE TASTING - JANUARY 18, 2014 - PART 1/2

HotD Dave

Unblended St. Lam

Sam Adams Millenium

Reubens from Katz's Deli

Cantillon La Dernière Cuvée Du 89

Midnight Sun M

3 Fonteinen / De Cam Millenium Geuze

Lost Abbey Cable Car Kriek

Lost Abbey Cable Car 2009

Cantillon Crianza Helena

Palate Cleanser: Goose Island Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout

3F Hommage (2007)
3F Hommage (2013)
3F Framboos (2011)

Adding to the TalkBeer.com Cuvee...

B. Nektar Ken Schramm Heart of Darkness, AKA the best mead ever, by a large margin.

Armand'4 Lente, Zomer, Herfst, Winter (Ultimately we all agreed the best option was to blend all four.)

Cellar Maker Simcoe/Galaxy IPA

FiftyFity Eclipse - Pappy Van Winkle 20yr

3F Oude Geuze Armand & Tommy
3F Oude Geuze Vintage 2007

Kane Sea Change

Cantillon 50°N-4°E (2007)
Cantillon 50°N-4°E (2013)

beautiful pictures Gene! dem perfect pours on the first few beers...looks so good. looks like the handywork of jbuddle Speedwayjim (aka @speedwhalejim) - was a LOT of fun to watch along. any wild stories about navigating home? those NJ streets can be confusing after a big tasting...i learned that there is a penn station in NJ as well as in NY after one of those tastings.

Cheers! thanks for sharing!!!

 

[GrumpyOldTroll]

Can I get a discount for performing sexual favors with my claws?

That's MordorMongo's department.

 

[oldp0rt]

That's MordorMongo's department.

You would know first hand?

 

[BusinessSloth]

Pre-game for Dave LIF tasting. **** photos, irrelevant. Blauw, Solstice d'ete, vanilla eclipse, abner, double galaxy, lemonade pre-ban four loko FTW, appreciation, V012, think forgetting something. Zero ***** given. Thanks GrumpyOldTroll, Totoropanda, stupac2. Good time.

What was your favorite?

 

[baybassboy]

What does a $10 TB#002 Glass from out that way cost over here in SoCal?

similar inflation rules apply?

 

[MordorMongo]

What was your favorite?

That night? Blauw. The answer is always Blauw.

 

[cosmicevan]

That night? Blauw. The answer is always Blauw.

over MMM? really?

 

[xnicknj]

About half of the bottles that were actually opened. Highlights were def Blauw, Twisted Spoke, Peconic, CC12, OG Whiskey Hunah and Izzy.

 

[frothyhead]

Canon T2i body with Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II lens

Great lens, I've got the same one on my T1i. I don't shoot nearly enough anymore tho.

 

[duketheredeemer]

Love that Sea Change was amongst these whalez!!

That and Cellarmaker.

 

[PeelBacks]

Central Waters Exodus - kinda musty sourdough notes. tasty.

Oak Aged Yeti - did not like, weird smooth creamy component to it. slight nail polish?

Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter - smooth and creamy in a good way

Bourbonic Plague- very well done, big bold cuvee de tomme kind of notes but not sure it's my thing

Juliet - loved this. gonna put away for aging. reminded me a bit of blackberry young cable car

Halia - nice farmhouse with soft peaches. also might be a good candidate for the cellar

Stone Liberty Station - Lost City of Liquid Gold (El Dorado Single Hop IPA)- nice to understand the hop but
not something I'd use by itself. still tasty.

Abraxas - ****. dat abraxas doe. the best chocolate I've found in a beer with those awesome adjuncts in there just peeling it back like a 'mugg. love this beer, 2nd time having it.

The Wanderer (recent batch) - very vinous, not crazy acidic

Melange 1 - not too sure on this one, blending BT & oude tart seems like something to do when you have leftovers of a 750 of BT & a 750 of oude tart and are drunk and blend them yourself instead of something they bottle, I dunno - just my opinion, which really doesn't apply because if theres a 750 of BT around, there won't be any leftovers cuz of Markintiharing

Odell Friek - Nice bit of framboise & kriek. Kriek side sort of shone through more. Fruity sour, little to no funk right now.

Westbrook Grumpy Old Time - another one that kind of reminded me of CdT. first apple brandy BA beer I've had. glad to have shared this one, as I could not drink in large quanitities.

Citra Showers - I had my doubts but I think the hype on this is pretty real. very tasty IPA. not sure if better than Kern River Citra. personally **** both of those, it's all about the Kern River Citra casks with another hop added. i.e. Citra w/ mosaic. hhnnnnngggg.

09 BCBS - so smooth and nice, nothing takes center stage. just all around toned down and melded together like a bcbs lint ball aging for years in that crevasse in your pocket.


Backyard Rye - for me it was better than bramble but maybe just slightly below cherry rye. (I'm not one of the people that get cough medicine from this like others, I love it - like pumpkin latte/dr pepper bcbs
to me). Started out as fruit roll up bcbs but then turned in to somethig much tastier and awesome once it warmed up properly and I swirled it around a **** ton in my glass.


Proprietors - damn gurl, this one wins it for bcbs. really really really good. I want one to markintihar so badly. don't age yours, trade it to me. but really, delish. it wasn't overly coconutty like coconut speedway (which was still awesome) , just a nice deep coconut plot twist in the world that is bcbs

As always, fun times with good people. happy bday to Jeff, congrats B-rad on the news of Houston Bourbon County, and congrats to Alan for becoming internet famous not only here but apparently on the Perennial ceo's twitter. Looking forward to this weeks Izzy share.
Some close ups:

 

[hopswap1]

Needed to make some room in the cellar so I had a few buds come over to help out and watch some football. Don't remember how the ace pear ended up in there..

Highlights for me were the huna and quetsche. Cherry was nice but lost a lot of the fruit.

 

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

About half of the bottles that were actually opened. Highlights were def Blauw, Twisted Spoke, Peconic, CC12, OG Whiskey Hunah and Izzy.

I would buy a ticket to this tasting.

 

[Alex2]

So how was Dave?

 

[Minnesotaryan]

So how was Dave?

 

[sobeleg]

Had a nice little tasting with NYCBUCKEYE MikeG Sean and matt_6 tonight.



Backacre Golden Sour Ale
SARA Saison Bernice
SARA Maiden Fields
Upland Rasberry Lambic
Grassroots Convivial Suarez B1
Grassroost Convivial Suarez B2
HF Flora B4
HF Norma B2
HF Juicy
HF Elaborative 2
HF Vera May
HF E

Highlights for me were the Flora, Juicy, Bernice, and the Backacre.

 

[Sean2]

Had a nice little tasting with NYCBUCKEYE MikeG Sean and matt_6 tonight.



Backacre Golden Sour Ale
SARA Saison Bernice
SARA Maiden Fields
Upland Rasberry Lambic
Grassroots Convivial Suarez B1
Grassroost Convivial Suarez B2
HF Flora B4
HF Norma B2
HF Juicy
HF Elaborative 2
HF Vera May
HF E

Highlights for me were the Flora, Juicy, Bernice, and the Backacre.

Flora was unreal. So good.

 

[gregkoko]

Had a nice little tasting with NYCBUCKEYE MikeG Sean and matt_6 tonight.



Backacre Golden Sour Ale
SARA Saison Bernice
SARA Maiden Fields
Upland Rasberry Lambic
Grassroots Convivial Suarez B1
Grassroost Convivial Suarez B2
HF Flora B4
HF Norma B2
HF Juicy
HF Elaborative 2
HF Vera May
HF E

Highlights for me were the Flora, Juicy, Bernice, and the Backacre.

Nice. Let me know the next time you guys do a bottle share. Would love to come out

 

[MordorMongo]

over MMM? really?

Different nights. Blauw was night before.

 

[sobeleg]

Nice. Let me know the next time you guys do a bottle share. Would love to come out

Will do, should have something in the works soon, I'll let you know.

 

[BigDaddyPolite]

From the archives... we did a blind BA Barleywine tasting a couple years back with 8 participants. Here are the pics as well as the results:

#1: GI King Henry - 29 Points
#2: Dry Dock Bligh's Barleywine -17 Points
#3: Alpine Great 2009 - 12 Points
#4: Hoppin' Frog BA Naked Evil - 7 Points
The Rest
Schlafly's Reserve BW
Sebago Single Batch Barleywine
Town Hall Brewery Twisted Jim 2009 Growler
Mother of All Storms 2011 - 0 Points
FW Abacus - 0 Points
Khunhenn BBBW 2010 - 0 Points

 

[BusinessSloth]

From the archives... we did a blind BA Barleywine tasting a couple years back with 8 participants. Here are the pics as well as the results:

#1: GI King Henry - 29 Points
#2: Dry Dock Bligh's Barleywine -17 Points
#3: Alpine Great 2009 - 12 Points
#4: Hoppin' Frog BA Naked Evil - 7 Points
The Rest
Schlafly's Reserve BW
Sebago Single Batch Barleywine
Town Hall Brewery Twisted Jim 2009 Growler
Mother of All Storms 2011 - 0 Points
FW Abacus - 0 Points
Khunhenn BBBW 2010 - 0 Points

Dry Dock makes a beer that doesn't suck ass?

 

[beerindex]

Not pictured but consumed thereafter: Glenmorangie 10, Glenlivet 12, Glenlivet 15, Glenlivet Nadurra
Planned for consumption but not gotten to: Glenlivet 18, Rowan Creek bourbon, Black Maple Hill bourbon

 

[minh]

Missing several bottles i can remember off the top of my head, so I'm sure there are ones i can't recall.

 

[PeelBacks]

The Izzy Tasting...


that turned into the Reuben Pizza tasting, that turned into the Reuben Wellington tasting, that turned into the Consecration batch 1 tasting, that turned into the CD6&7 tasting, that almost turned into the Beatification vertical tasting. here it is:

dat ambiance, dat curieux kegerator, dat horse head, dat Brazilian bottle opener, dat fearless leader aka my new landlord. fearless leader TBD against King Kang amk or our founder Chef Brad, we're in a game of thrones type thing right now. I kind of resonate with Aria if she liked cable car, blue dream, and was a peelback, I guess, but I could be a Khaleesi someday - maybe.

The pron:


shout out wscaffe you da best. this was shared with strangers met on the internet who are now friends. it was delicious. paying it forward coming soon.


stop: Reuben break.