Official tasting pictures thread

[brian4beer]

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....

Good stuff!! Agree with the BRL comment. I could drink a boss pour of that daily. Such an amazing beer. And damn it I just traded my Ann to jcvanderbilt

 

[stakem1]

Tonight I discovered that 1v1willwreku is actually a real person and not just the beer He-man figment of my imagination. We were lost in each others loins for the better part of 5 hours but somehow managed to stop kissing long enough to keep hydrated with a couple shelf turds.

The dreamtime we shared together was cut far too short. But it was an encounter I will not soon forget. As we parted ways, I found myself starting to miss the sweet, warm embrace...but I dare not let this Austrian Oak see the tear swell up in my eye.

 

[tectactoe1]

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

 

[joro]

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....

Gotta admit, both of these evaluations are about as spot on as they can be. SHBRL stole the show for me personally. I think Flora 5 was the best HF bottle. West Ashley was the biggest surprise for me. CDs 1-3 were tremendously disappointing, and Framboos may have been the biggest letdown of the weekend.

All-in-all, probably the best week of beer drinking in my life.

Do it again next week, fellas?

 

[regularjohn]

 

[gregkoko]

Excellent night with NYCBUCKEYE watching the Rangers advance to the Stanley Cup Finals

RR Blind Pig
Cigar City Illuminating the Path
HF Biere de Norma
Deschutes Abyss 2010

 

[gregkoko]

So I do a big bottle share weekend once a year with some friends. This was the Friday night pregame.

Highlights were Oude Tart w/Cherries and Union Double Duckpin.

Terrapin WC Moo Hoo
Trillium Farmhouse
OT Cherries
BCBW
Bomb
Jailbreak Dusk Til Dawn
Tired Hands Go Ride A Bike
Holy Cow
Westbrook Gose
Evolution Noveau Rouge
Union Double Duckpin
Pipeworks Hey Careful Man There's A Beverage Here
Grassroots Convivial Suarez

 

[Iliketurtles]

So I do a big bottle share weekend once a year with some friends. This was the Friday night pregame.

Highlights were Oude Tart w/Cherries and Union Double Duckpin.

Terrapin WC Moo Hoo
Trillium Farmhouse
OT Cherries
BCBW
Bomb
Jailbreak Dusk Til Dawn
Tired Hands Go Ride A Bike
Holy Cow
Westbrook Gose
Evolution Noveau Rouge
Union Double Duckpin
Pipeworks Hey Careful Man There's A Beverage Here
Grassroots Convivial Suarez

Double Duckpin is MD's best beer. Glad you liked it. Sorry you drank Noveau Rouge.

 

[Hanzo1]

Opened a few bottles with some friends yesterday.

 

[yamar68]

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

 

[Trady]

Had a great tasting with some great people on Saturday at my new place, big thanks to the whole crew who came out.

Full Lineup:
Two Roads Urban Funk
Two Roads Krazy Pucker
Lawsons’s Triple Sunshine
Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter
2014 Dark Lord
Upland Raspberry Lambic
Jester King Das Wunderkind
Jester King Das Uberkind
Night Shift Viva Habanera
Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze ‘13 (x2)
De Came Oude Geuze ’09 (flat, but delicious)
Cantillon Fou Foune
Cantillon Oude Gueuze Bio ‘12
Girardin Fond Gueuze Bierpallieters ‘09
Goose Island King Henry
Goose Island Bourbon County Backyard Rye
De Garde Saison Desay (Oak Chardonnay)
De Garde Lee Noir
Saint Arnold Boiler Room Berliner Weisse
OWA Sakura Lambic
Cigar City “The Tasting” Berliner Weisse
Freetail Salado Kriek
The Colony Meadery Favorite Child
Tired Hands Back Into the Emptiness
Tired Hands The Emptiness is Eternal
Tired Hands So It Goes
Piperworks Citra Ninja
Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo
Hardywood Bourbon Cru
Allagash Coolship Resurgam B1 & 2
Hill Farmstead Anna
Firestone Walker Parabola B1
Cigar City Hunahpu
Jester King Atrial Rubicite B1
Saison de Pipaix ‘03
Rodenbach 2008 Vintage
Alesmith Speedway Stout (can’t recall the coffee variety)
Hair of the Dog Adam from the Wood
Alchemist Beelzebub
Alchemist Focal Banger
Void Ov Mango

Not pictured were a good 6-7 bombers of homebrew from stakem and Pneill316, who both brought their homebrew Geuze for us to compare (both were absolutely great), not to mention stakem's Jeroboam of his Bramberliner, which was amazing. Thanks to everybody for coming out.

 

[DanzBorin]

How was Triple Sunshine?

 

[Trady]

How was Triple Sunshine?

It was very good.

 

[Calcifer]

It was very good.

As good as Double? Better?

 

[Trady]

As good as Double? Better?

Honestly, haven't had double in a couple years, so would be unfair for me to compare It was pretty damn good though.

 

[islandboi8204]

Solid share tonight with some good friends. The 07 Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage St Valentijn Cuvee was a nice surprise but DBH was the winner IMO. So smooth

 

[Trady]

Solid share tonight with some good friends. The 07 Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage St Valentijn Cuvee was a nice surprise but DBH was the winner IMO. So smooth

What? Beer?

 

[Kwad4Me]

Solid share tonight with some good friends. The 07 Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage St Valentijn Cuvee was a nice surprise but DBH was the winner IMO. So smooth

Did you guys share her too? I wouldn't....

 

[matedog]

Solid share tonight with some good friends. The 07 Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage St Valentijn Cuvee was a nice surprise but DBH was the winner IMO. So smooth

 

[bahnfire]

As good as Double? Better?

I enjoyed TS as much as I do DS, but I think this would likely come down to personal preference. I would say they are equally good, but given a choice would likely choose DS for the lower ABV.

 

[Iliketurtles]

Honestly, haven't had double in a couple years, so would be unfair for me to compare It was pretty damn good though.

FALSE!

 

[Trady]

FALSE!

Oh right, still that was almost a year ago doe.

My main point is to discern which is better, I'd prefer to try side-by-side.

 

[Adam Jackson]

Sunday tasting w/ friends. We had Madness 3 & Flora Blend #5 but I only got a photo of Flora

Then last night, DmouthCaliBrewz and others came by for some wild ales:

'01 LP Framboise

'05 Schaerbeekse Kriek

03 Oude Gueuze Vintage

Anchorage Between the Staves

HS Wineification

05 Doesjel 75CL carbonated

Madness & Civilization 4

E. 2014

Brett stole my camera and started taking photos. I think we found a new Photo for his Tinder Profile pic.

Personal Highlights:

• Doesjel '06 stole the show. Nicely carbonated, bright juicy and oaky
• '03 OGV and Armand & Tomme tied for 2nd. OGV was basement must and funk maybe edged out A&T
• Winefication was interesting but maybe too sweet for me. would love to see more wine+beer blends
• Fantome is back. I've had a lot of it lately and all of the '14 bottles are delicious. hoping more arrive stateside soon
• The tall boy of Coors Light was bad...just bad.
• '01 LP Framboise, jammy as all hell and balsamic, acidic but still super interesting and fun to try.

Thanks guys for coming over. it was an awesome tasting.

 

[DmouthCaliBrewz]

Sunday tasting w/ friends. We had Madness 3 & Flora Blend #5 but I only got a photo of Flora

Then last night, DmouthCaliBrewz and others came by for some wild ales:

'01 LP Framboise

'05 Schaerbeekse Kriek

03 Oude Gueuze Vintage

Anchorage Between the Staves

HS Wineification

05 Doesjel 75CL carbonated

Madness & Civilization 4

E. 2014

Brett stole my camera and started taking photos. I think we found a new Photo for his Tinder Profile pic.

Personal Highlights:

• Doesjel '06 stole the show. Nicely carbonated, bright juicy and oaky
• '03 OGV and Armand & Tomme tied for 2nd. OGV was basement must and funk maybe edged out A&T
• Winefication was interesting but maybe too sweet for me. would love to see more wine+beer blends
• Fantome is back. I've had a lot of it lately and all of the '14 bottles are delicious. hoping more arrive stateside soon
• The tall boy of Coors Light was bad...just bad.
• '01 LP Framboise, jammy as all hell and balsamic, acidic but still super interesting and fun to try.

Thanks guys for coming over. it was an awesome tasting.

Old ass lambic, feat. Johnny Depp.....errrr, I mean, DougOLis who

 

[Osyrus]

Introducing a few friends to Hill Farmstead today who have never had any before. Missing from photo... Elaborative #2.

 

[PeelBacks]

Sunday tasting w/ friends. We had Madness 3 & Flora Blend #5 but I only got a photo of Flora

Then last night, DmouthCaliBrewz and others came by for some wild ales:

'01 LP Framboise

'05 Schaerbeekse Kriek

03 Oude Gueuze Vintage

Anchorage Between the Staves

HS Wineification

05 Doesjel 75CL carbonated

Madness & Civilization 4

E. 2014

Brett stole my camera and started taking photos. I think we found a new Photo for his Tinder Profile pic.

Personal Highlights:

• Doesjel '06 stole the show. Nicely carbonated, bright juicy and oaky
• '03 OGV and Armand & Tomme tied for 2nd. OGV was basement must and funk maybe edged out A&T
• Winefication was interesting but maybe too sweet for me. would love to see more wine+beer blends
• Fantome is back. I've had a lot of it lately and all of the '14 bottles are delicious. hoping more arrive stateside soon
• The tall boy of Coors Light was bad...just bad.
• '01 LP Framboise, jammy as all hell and balsamic, acidic but still super interesting and fun to try.

Thanks guys for coming over. it was an awesome tasting.

Thoughts on Between the Staves?

Looks like a fun share!

 

[gregkoko]

Stupid Rangers

Abacus 2011
Cantillon CG
De Cam Oude Kriek
Upright Sole Composition: Undercurrent

Oude Kriek is a damn good beer. CG was a little young, but still...Cantillon

 

[Number45]

Introducing a few friends to Hill Farmstead today who have never had any before. Missing from photo... Elaborative #2.

Very cool thing. Any consensus favorites among the newbs?

 

[Osyrus]

Very cool thing. Any consensus favorites among the newbs?

Unanimous favorite was Prolegomena, followed by MC4, bourbon and port Damons, and Norma.

Batch 1 Clara (pre-blue label Arthur) was a personal special treat. Satsuma is (somewhat surprisingly) holding up well. Still lots of citrus.

 

[phishbfm]

Impromptu share with a couple pals: