Official tasting pictures thread

[smo]

Nice little share with wittyname smonice @haywire and a few others. Not pictured are S&S 5 / Ephraim growlers and pvw 20!

 

[oldp0rt]

Little Prairie tasting last night.

other casualties included,

 

[Calcifer]

Had a little Russian River sour tasting last night with a few friends:

My personal ranking order:

Framboise For A Cure (2013)

Beatification (Batch #6)

Supplication (12.17.12)

Sanctification (Batch 006)

Consecration (11.22.13)

Temptation (05.30.13)

Another shot of the lineup for good measure:

Great night!

 

[Jaminjohnson]

Tasting last night was pretty fun, probably went through 7 pitchers of grapefruit radlers

 

[gregkoko]

Excellent time hanging with Quackus watching the Rangers take a 2-0 series lead!

Peche n Brett
Pseudo Sue
Sucre (Rum)
Rue d' Floyd

 

[drgarage1]

Excellent time hanging with Quackus watching the Rangers take a 2-0 series lead!

Peche n Brett
Pseudo Sue
Sucre (Rum)
Rue d' Floyd

Rum Sucre is so good!

 

[drbenzo1]

Small tasting with rmaste6282 , zbeetleman and others tonight. Only missing HF growlers and good food...

 

[gregkoko]

Rum Sucre is so good!

Usually not big on the anniversary beers, but the Rum blendly insanely well with it. Really really enjoyed it

 

[rmaste6282]

Small tasting with rmaste6282 , zbeetleman and others tonight. Only missing HF growlers and good food...

My top 5 for the night would be Hommage, West Ashley, Cask 200, Appreciation and Westbook Gose.

 

[drbenzo1]

My top 5 for the night would be Hommage, West Ashley, Cask 200, Appreciation and Westbook Gose.

 

[Bill2]

Cantillon Rose De "Cambrinus" 1994

Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock 2004

Kuhnhenn Blueberry Eisbock

Killer mini-tasting at Kuhnhenn's B&B The Sitting Room.

Cheers!

Oh, I also opened this up recently, drinking like a champ:

 

[thrashD]

Cantillon Rose De "Cambrinus" 1994

Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock 2004

Kuhnhenn Blueberry Eisbock

Killer mini-tasting at Kuhnhenn's B&B The Sitting Room.

Cheers!

Oh, I also opened this up recently, drinking like a champ:

Great beers and all, but ISO that lighter!!!

 

[sobeleg]

Had a great tasting last night with Touch_My_BrettSacch NYCBUCKEYE gregkoko axeman9182 and Sean , although Im definitely paying the price this morning:



Focal Banger
Bible Belt
Bomb!
'09 Mirror Mirror (no infection)
Galactic Double Daisy Cutter
Lil' Gruesome
CW 16
BA Kentucky Dark Star
Ru-55 Blend 5
2011 Cuvee St. Gilloise
Cacao ANTEAD
Bottleworks XII
Mischmishmish
'14 Huna
512 Whiskey Barrel Double Pecan Porter
Bo & Luke
Peche & Brett
Nocturn Chrysalis #2
Montmorency vs. Balaton
Two Roads Crazy Pucker
Budweiser

Not pictured:
Growler of Pizza Boy HopTart 2.0 - Chardonnay
Growler of Peekskill Simple Sour
Growler of Other Half Citra IPA
More Budweiser

Great time last night and a big thanks to everyone for bringing some great bottles!

 

[gregkoko]

Yeah I'm definitely hurting this morning

 

[axeman91821]

I don't want to hear any complaining unless you also had to be up and on a bus at 7am.

 

[gregkoko]

I don't want to hear any complaining unless you also had to be up and on a bus at 7am.

I didn't get home until like 2:30, sleep at 3:30, up at 8:30, ran six miles, had my brunch date cancel, made breakfast, and about to go out and start boozing again

 

[Calcifer]

Had a little plum sour tasting last night with Pensfan and a few other friends.


Also opened up a few other things over the course of the night.


In my opinion, Out Of The Emptiness > Marius w/ Plums > L'brett D'plum. The Crooked Stave was the most tart of the three, but the Tired Hands had way more plum flavour. Other than that, A Night To End All Dawns (Coffee) and Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock stole the show.

 

[sarro1]

Nice little share with wittyname smonice @haywire and a few others. Not pictured are S&S 5 / Ephraim growlers and pvw 20!

Love the variety there!

 

[SeaWatchman]

rbald42 and I did some damage yesterday.

GI Madame Rose, 2012
GI Lolita, 2013
Crabtree Frambo
Almanac Blackberry Reserve
Thirsty Dog Wulver
JK Boxer's Revenge
Prairie Okie
DhVL 20th
Cantillon Mamouche 2013
Cantillon Bruocsella 2010/2013(btld)

 

[tehzachatak]

rbald42 and I did some damage yesterday.

GI Madame Rose, 2012
GI Lolita, 2013
Crabtree Frambo
Almanac Blackberry Reserve
Thirsty Dog Wulver
JK Boxer's Revenge
Prairie Okie
DhVL 20th
Cantillon Mamouche 2013
Cantillon Bruocsella 2010/2013(btld)

How were the two goose island fruited american lambics? drinking well?

 

[SeaWatchman]

How were the two goose island fruited american lambics? drinking well?

God-tier.

 

[Adam Jackson]

In an effort to avoid the Memorial Day Waterbury VT-pocalypse, I had some home brewers in the area drop in and we opened 2 Liters of Harlan & Amarillo from HFS and then opened these bottles. There were a lot we didn't get around to but it helped me reduce the cellar a bit and most of the people had never had Hill Farmstead before so it was fun sharing.

Of the virgin-HFS tongues who at the start didn't buy into the hype and thought it was just some hipster brewery for weirdos, their favorite bottles were:

1. Port Damon
2. Norma
3. Arthur
4. Birth of Tragedy
5. Everett
6. Suarez
7. BG&E
8. Daybreak
9. Damon
10. Sankt Hans

Amarillo single hop beat out harlan but just barely. Best question of the night, "Norma is really good! Can I get it at Beverage King? in west leb?"

 

[sarro1]

If you ever need cellar reducing just holler Adam

 

[fletch1]

A few beers were opened up in VT for Hill Farmstead's 4th anniversary. Greaat times with innuendobrewskiman63 , SteveC32 , Number45 , vonnegut21

 

[jcvanderbilt]

A few beers were opened up in VT for Hill Farmstead's 4th anniversary. Greaat times with innuendobrewskiman63 , SteveC32 , Number45 , vonnegut21

I recognize some of those bottles...

 

[fletch1]

I recognize some of those bottles...

You definatly do! Thank you good sir

 

[jcvanderbilt]

You definatly do! Thank you good sir

What were the Hill standouts?

 

[Number45]

What were the Hill standouts?

• For me, CD 1-3 were garbage. ****** gold caps perhaps to blame, way over the hill.
  
• CD5 and CD9 were amazing, by far the best CD bottles
• Mimosa bottle 1 was good. Mimosa bottle 2 was better (much more citrus). Having been lucky enough to have Mimosa a year ago, I can vouch that it's going downhill. Still nothing I'd ever turn down, but it's seen better days.
• This was my first time having Ann. It was amazing...perhaps the best HF bottle of the weekend, and that's me as a Flora lover talking. It was just incredible and if it was better than this fresh than I REALLY feel bad about dealing it away for Blabaer...still the worst trade I've ever made.
  
• Elab 2 was sneaky great, loved that beer.
• Norma B1 > Norma B3 > Norma B2. B2 was clearly the "worst" of the batch, although still great. 1 and 3 tasted very similar to me.

Other notes of mine:

• Vanilla Dark Lords were stupid good as always. The 2014 version is the biggest vanilla bomb I've ever had. Starting to think I GREATLY prefer these things fresh when they're hot as can be with as much in your face vanilla as possible.
• BB9K is amazing.
• 50n40e was very unique, I loved it.
• Our bottle of T20 was holding up great! T25 was also great. I was expecting to be letdown by T20, have heard some less than good things about how it's aging.
• De Garde. MOOOOAAAR.
• Framboos > Hommage. Not even close.
• West Ashley basically was designed for me as a citrus whore. I need to get one.
• SHBRL was FANTASTIC. So good, some ******* brought a second bottle so we could all have it again. Ah, life is hard sometimes.
• The Fou is 2010. My lesson: fresh Fou is best Fou. The 2010 wasn't as apricoty but was still great. I just think not much else compares to fresh Fou, I won't be aging it.
• LP Framboise was 2002 sticker...unlike Fou, I would have no problem aging LPF or LPK, this bottle was fantastic.
  
• Mamouche is ******* weird (my first time having it).
• Sneaky highlight: '11 Blushing Monk. Aging like a ******* champ.

 

[Michigan1]

A few beers were opened up in VT for Hill Farmstead's 4th anniversary. Greaat times with innuendobrewskiman63 , SteveC32 , Number45 , vonnegut21

Who brought a can of Heady Topper to a Vermont tasting?

 

[vonnegut21]

• For me, CD 1-3 were garbage. ****** gold caps perhaps to blame, way over the hill.
  
• CD5 and CD9 were amazing, by far the best CD bottles
• Mimosa bottle 1 was good. Mimosa bottle 2 was better (much more citrus). Having been lucky enough to have Mimosa a year ago, I can vouch that it's going downhill. Still nothing I'd ever turn down, but it's seen better days.
• This was my first time having Ann. It was amazing...perhaps the best HF bottle of the weekend, and that's me as a Flora lover talking. It was just incredible and if it was better than this fresh than I REALLY feel bad about dealing it away for Blabaer...still the worst trade I've ever made.
  
• Elab 2 was sneaky great, loved that beer.
• Norma B1 > Norma B3 > Norma B2. B2 was clearly the "worst" of the batch, although still great. 1 and 3 tasted very similar to me.

Other notes of mine:

• Vanilla Dark Lords were stupid good as always. The 2014 version is the biggest vanilla bomb I've ever had. Starting to think I GREATLY prefer these things fresh when they're hot as can be with as much in your face vanilla as possible.
• BB9K is amazing.
• 50n40e was very unique, I loved it.
• Our bottle of T20 was holding up great! T25 was also great. I was expecting to be letdown by T20, have heard some less than good things about how it's aging.
• De Garde. MOOOOAAAR.
• Framboos > Hommage. Not even close.
• West Ashley basically was designed for me as a citrus whore. I need to get one.
• SHBRL was FANTASTIC. So good, some ******* brought a second bottle so we could all have it again. Ah, life is hard sometimes.
• The Fou is 2010. My lesson: fresh Fou is best Fou. The 2010 wasn't as apricoty but was still great. I just think not much else compares to fresh Fou, I won't be aging it.
• LP Framboise was 2002 sticker...unlike Fou, I would have no problem aging LPF or LPK, this bottle was fantastic.
  
• Mamouche is ******* weird (my first time having it).
• Sneaky highlight: '11 Blushing Monk. Aging like a ******* champ.

Agree with everything Bill said. Except the thing about the 2010 Fou Foune. It was perfect. Jammy apricots with a more pronounced sourness than the fresh bottles we drank the next night at Parker Pie. I blame the cold
you had on the first night

Thoughts:

• It was interesting how different our two bottles of Mimosa were. The first one was what I was expecting for a 2+ year old citrus saison. The second one was shockingly good.
• "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. " - Ann. Seriously, it was great. Not as good as it was fresh, sure. But still phenomenal. Right next to CD5 and B5 Flora as the best HF bottles of the weekend.
• Despite only planning on opening one bottle of SHBRL this weekend, it turns out that even two bottles isn't enough. Absolutely fantastic and perhaps my favorite beer of the entire weekend.
• 2014 Bourbon Vanilla Dark Lord was stupid good.
• So was Apple Brandy Mexican Cake. I was expecting to be let down by the hype machine, but it's seriously an excellent beer.

Like fletch said, we had some great beers and a great time drinking them. Fletcher, Bill, Scott and JR are super generous folks to share all their excellent beer with us. Already looking forward to next year....