Official tasting pictures thread

[Calcifer]

Had a few shares this past weekend while in Vermont (first) and Boston (second).

Standouts included:
Fuzzy
Jester King sours
Double Shot
Biere de Norma
E.
Hunahpu's
Maple Tripple
Iris
Rose de Gambrinus

Great couple of days!

 

[beerbaron666]

drank these last night with 2 friends. All were fantastic

 

[Dino1]

Last night. 5 people

 

[montrealbcr89]

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.

Agreed with the above consensus. The Grand Rapids beer was one of the better stouts I've had in a while and the Khuhnenn Oud Bruin was just unreal.

Not pictured: blended (literally) pizza beer.

 

[mtalley999]

A good friend and his parents (also good friends of my family) had a Hudson tasting at a restaurant last week. Started with som Dom and house cured charcuterie and cheese plate. Then moved on to these courses.

House cured bacon and Perrier Jouet Rose.

House made bratwurst (caribou and suckling pig) with Hudson Single Malt bourbon.

Wild Copper River Sockeye salmon w/gnocchi, iberico ham, roasted cippolini onions and bacon jus. Served with Hudson 4 Grain.

Roasted pear purée with pickled gooseberry and vanilla salt, served with Hudson Corn Whiskey.

Lamb chop with Hudson Rye.

"Chocolate cigar" with Hudson Baby Bourbon.

And we finished up with 4 snifters of Louis XIII split among the 12 of us. I got lucky and ended up basically splitting one with another dude.

This was by far one of the best experiences of my life. The food was flawless, as were the pairings. I was absolutely floored by the generosity of my friend's parents. My buddy's dad just said "Good things for good people." I'm fortunate to have them in my life. He said that he plans to do it again, so I can only hope to be invited again. (Sorry for some the quality of some of the pics.)

 

[markgugs]

acurtis, farnold, Roze, BenTenison, Jblaze36wv and a few others came over yesterday for a BBQ & share. full pics in the 6/29/14 DDT

I tried to remember the order we consumed these, Untappd helped lol

Starting w/ the top pic, from L to R, we drank. My highlights are bolded.
Alpine Nelson
Revolution Jukebox-Hero
Cascade 2012 Gose
Upland Kiwi Lambic
Grassroots Wheat Is The New Hops
Fort George 3-Way IPA w/ Boneyard & Block-15
Hill Farmstead Double Citra
La Cumbre Project Dank
Upright Blend Love
Cantillon Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio
Cantillon 2013 Cuvee Saint-Gilloise
SARA Ron Chavez Rum Barrel-Aged
Russian River Consecration batch 001
Founders Oak Aged Rye IPA 2014
Funky Buddha Don't Tell Reece

Cigar City Double Barrel Hunahpu's
Westbrook Apple Brandy BA Mexican Cake
Jester King Biere de Miel
SARA West Ashley
Bruery Floyd D'Rue
4 Hands Cuvee Ange
Kane A Night To End All Dawns - Vanilla
Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous
Cigar City Illuminating The Path
Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze
Rare Barrel Shadows Of Their Eyes
Grassroots Brother Soigne
Founders 2011 Blushing Monk
De Garde Brun Marron
Rare Barrel Proportional Response
Due South Mexican Standoff

Nogne O Dark Horizon 2nd Edition
Cantillon 2004 Iris 375ml
Porsmouth 2008 Kate the Great

 

[PHBoiler]

Well twice a year my buddies and I feel the need to embrace our inner FIB and go all #whalezbroz on a Saturday. This one really took a step up from any other tasting I've been to including DLD. Really went balls deep on the BA spiced stouts (they're all great but there's only one BA Abraxas). The stouts and BWs were absolutely fantastic, but the funk lineup stole the show for me. That gin BA anniversary saison from Upright was on point. Saison du Fermier is still my favorite beer. I hope batch 2 is as good as batch 1. The Night Shift Art series has to be the most underrated wild beer out there right now. T-25 was certainly a mind blower. Like the greatest consecration you'll ever taste. I also understand the De Garde love after finally getting to try one. Delicious. Good times with good folks.

 

[JoeBacillus]

Left before the line up happened, so only captured a part of the bottles.
The FB group Lambic Lovers had their annual share at Redlight Redlight

Rose de Gambrinus '04 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> '10 & '13 (La Vie En Rose B2 surprisingly held it's own against the '13 & '10)
Lou Pepe Framboise (2010) was incredible
First time having aged De Cam, not very impressed, decent amount of acetone
Coolship Red didn't deliver the "wow" I was expecting
Cantillon Grand Cru Bruocsella '07 was horrible

 

[LukeAleTime]

Left before the line up happened, so only captured a part of the bottles.
The FB group Lambic Lovers had their annual share at Redlight Redlight

Rose de Gambrinus '04 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> '10 & '13 (La Vie En Rose B2 surprisingly held it's own against the '13 & '10)
Lou Pepe Framboise (2010) was incredible
First time having aged De Cam, not very impressed, decent amount of acetone
Coolship Red didn't deliver the "wow" I was expecting
Cantillon Grand Cru Bruocsella '07 was horrible

Right now I'm a little nuts for Gambrinus. Haven't had one as old as 04; what was different about it?

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

C&P were as bad as I thought. First time every I've taken one sip of a beer and was done.

 

[JoeBacillus]

Right now I'm a little nuts for Gambrinus. Haven't had one as old as 04; what was different about it?

It was SUPER sour and funky compared to the newer bottles, still plenty of fruit left, and it made the newer ones seem one dimensional.

 

[Resuin]

Here are the bottles from our mini-tasting this week.

My favorites were Special Herbs (Upright), 2011 Lou Pepe Kriek, BA Everett and Pseudo Sue. Lots of good beers though!

 

[drbenzo1]

 

[mjshearer1]

Last night with GRDave and friends.

 

[markgugs]

had a nice little bottle share right in the Spring House tap room. loads of fun with ShanePB, Greenplastic615, acurtis, Jblaze36wv, darehulk112, and a few more folks.

My buddy refused to move for the graveyard pic lol.

I think this was everything, but not bad in a little over 2 hours!

Alewerks Jubilee
3F Oude Geuze Golden Blend
FFF Man-O-Awe
Lawson's Double Sunshine
Pipeworks Abduction
Flossmoor Big Poppa - this was amazing!!
North God Complex - this was also great, loads of chile heat
Trillium Pot & Kettle
Forest & Main Naked Knees (unpictured)
Kane Apiary with Brett
Kane A Night To End All Dawns Cacao
Bruery Black Tuesday '13
McKenzie Drizetta
FFF Space Station Middle Finger
Foothills BA Sexual Chocolate '12 - godly
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus 375ml

 

[Adam Jackson]

Cross-Post from another thread. I partook in a solo whiskey tasting on Saturday night at Jack Rose in DC. Awesome BAR!!!
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Evening recap from the bar. I had a great time but I'd say 50% of everything I was ordering was completely gone..in fact, I got the last half ounce of Van Winkle Rye 13year and they didn't charge me and it wasn't too good but they said the bottle had been opened for a while.

Eventually, I made friends with a bartender and I told him to just open whatever he wanted and I stopped ordering off the menu and it was glorious.

Ended up spending about $250. 4 of the whiskeys I tried are not pictured below (van winkle rye, SW Old Fitzgerald (decanter '66?, FR 2009 Marriage and one of the willet ryes)

I also snapped some photos of the menu. this place is worth checking out but they have FAR more scotch than bourbon.

I also had some decent company that evening but they were all upstairs raving to techno and drinking G&Ts..it was stupid college-night or some thing. I ditched my friends and drank downstairs and it was totally chill. Dudes next to me were doing an Ardbeg tasting and writing a ton of notes. Very nice whiskey geek vibe downstairs w/ much better music.

I totally recommend this place.

 

[BeersMorgan]

Reallll nice pics!

 

[Dicers]

MeWestbrook weisse weisse baby
Westbrook Bearded Farmer #1 Hughey (2012)
Westbrook Capt 'n Skoon
Westbrook Bourbon Barrel Capt' n Skoon
Evil Twin Wine Barrel Justin Blaeber
Almanac Dogpatch Strawberry (Wine Barrel)
Cigar City California Brandy Barrel Hunaphu
Jester King Atrial Rubicitie B2
3 Fonteinen Armand'4 Herfst
3 Fonteinen Armand'4 Zomer

MEt up with someone I met on the forums while driving to TX. This happened

 

[mrk_d]

MeWestbrook weisse weisse baby
Westbrook Bearded Farmer #1 Hughey (2012)
Westbrook Capt 'n Skoon
Westbrook Bourbon Barrel Capt' n Skoon
Evil Twin Wine Barrel Justin Blaeber
Almanac Dogpatch Strawberry (Wine Barrel)
Cigar City California Brandy Barrel Hunaphu
Jester King Atrial Rubicitie B2
3 Fonteinen Armand'4 Herfst
3 Fonteinen Armand'4 Zomer

MEt up with someone I met on the forums while driving to TX. This happened

Herfst or Zomer?

 

[Dicers]

Herfst or Zomer?

Zomer (more funk)

 

[Resuin]

Tonight's mini tasting.

Highlights were Beyond Good & Evil, E, Sump and Matt. All were great though. Cheers!

 

[bathroomlaughter]

16es: cask cherry, lucy blue, cellar pallet

not pictured: quality of life, growler of hop killah, tropical tripel

 

[RyanG1]

Semi-regular Thursday with grrrah and jtmartino. Thanks for hosting, Josh!

Far right is dontdrinkbeer condo lambics? from the HOA series.

*picture purposely stolen from Josh

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

Semi-regular Thursday with grrrah and jtmartino. Thanks for hosting, Josh!

Far right is dontdrinkbeer condo lambics? from the HOA series.

*picture purposely stolen from Josh

Lol how is that bizarre lil kombucha berry spritzer?

 

[bramsdell]

Lol how is that bizarre lil kombucha berry spritzer?

It's not really kombucha and they're pretty meh if kombucha's what you're looking for. The lemon ginger is definitely the best flavor, but they're not better than most store-bought kombucha and don't hold a candle to most homebrews.

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

It's not really kombucha and they're pretty meh if kombucha's what you're looking for. The lemon ginger is definitely the best flavor, but they're not better than most store-bought kombucha and don't hold a candle to most homebrews.

No I filled that bottle with a kombucha and lacto wild ale i made.

 

[bramsdell]

No I filled that bottle with a kombucha and lacto wild ale i made.

My mistake. That sounds delicious.

Did you use the wild ale as the source of sugars for the secondary fermentation of the kombucha? How was the lacto with the kombuca? My stuff is usually acetic enough that any other type of souring would probably make it go too far. Very interested though.

Maybe buy a few bottles of Sofie or something cheap and do some kombucha blending myself.

 

[PurityControl88]

Fun tasting last night to celebrate my birth. I am only feeling slightly hungover. Ended up opening a Sanctification after this and passing out on the couch.

 

[Adam Jackson]

Thanks FujOnTap for hosting an awesome tasting last night.

Line-Up:

Total of 100 photos uploaded (trimmed down from 400). Too many to post here so just gonna share links.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamjackson/ & http://adam-jackson.net/beer/beer-tastings-gueuzepalooza-upstate-ny-july-12th-2014/

Oh and Fuj sabered some gueuze...did it the first time!


Sorry Colin to post this again but we tried something similarly in January:


Plus our official DJ was playing some of the best (worst?) music ever which we all enjoyed singing along to


Great evening! Highlights were the Schaerbeek Cherry Lambic lineup! So delicious. I love those cherries.

Oh and don't forget about our home-made Friendship Blend!!!

 

[Adam Jackson]

Also, if there are other videos from you guys of the 2nd Gueuze sabering, please share them. I only got video of the Fuj sabering.