Official tasting pictures thread

[TillTheMedicineTakes]

(cont'd...) with farnold Roze nathanmiller pa1414 franch ceight caseyk dar482 Wolverines66 ....

and then there was this...holy ****, just amazing

was blown away by this too, all fudgy & chocolatey & marshmallow-ey and ****

but honestly, this one took the cake. a 2007 Dark Lord, that we found in my garage about 2 months back. you can see my original writing on the wax...DL Day was 4/29/2007, I acquired the beer in trade on 5/25/2007...then managed to forget it was in my garage . Anyway, IT WAS ******* GOOD. I'M TALKING REAL GOOD (seriously, look on Untappd from yesterday; no one gave it less than 4/5). Like a glass of toasted coconut/marshmallow/milk chocolate soup. No soy sauce at all. Thank god I have another

At this point I missed a LOT of the beers being poured. I had to pick & choose my battles...

...because I looked like this. Oh heeyyyyy. just a Soigne magnum, nbd

was shocked at how much I enjoyed this one. ISO!!!

and finally, the only way to end a share like this one...thanks Pat!!

the (partial) graveyard...

that's literally only about have the bottles...just couldn't get it together to add any more lol

Pretty sure we went through these, and I guarantee I've still missed some that were opened (I bolded my personal highlights)

Toppling Goliath King Sue
Columbus Bodhi
Evil Twin Sour Bikini
Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek (2011 sticker)
Cantillon 50N4E
Perennial BA Fantastic Voyage
Upright Special Herbs
Hill Farmstead Abner
Cascade Blueberry Ale
Westbrook Mexican Cake (growler)
Hill Farmstead BA Everett
Perennial BA Sump
Alesmith Speedway Jamaica Blue Mountain
Voodoo The K13
Freetail Woodicus
Cascade Sang Royal
The Alchemist Heretic
Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise (2011)
Upland Blueberry Lambic
Boneyard Hop Venom
Bullfrog Le Roar Grrrz Druiven
Central Waters Sixteen
Three Floyds Dark Lord 2007
Southampton Imperial Russian Stout (2014)
Hill Farmstead Vera Mae
Jester King Provenance Lemon-Lime
Hill Farmstead Brother Soigne (magnum)
Sante Adairius Saison Bernice
Sante Adairius Nonna's Blend #6
The Bruery Melange #9
The Bruery Grey Monday
Bacchus Lilith
Cantillon Fou' Foune 2012

Beers that I know were there, but I didn't drink:
Heady Topper
Hill Farmstead Harlan
Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze (2009)
The Bruery Black Tuesday
Cycle RareR DOS
Cigar City Big Sound
Cigar City BA Big Sound
Carton SS2014 Yirgacheffe
The Brew Kettle White Rajah
The Rare Barrel On The Shoulders Of Giants
Sante Adairius Brackish
De Garde Cornelio Nunez
Jester King Biere de Miel
New England Brewing Attempted Redrum
New England Brewing BA Imperial Stout Trooper
Lawson's Sip of Sunshine
Lawson's Knockout Blonde
Lawson's Super Session
Avery Rufus Corvus
Jester King Boxer's Revenge
Tired Hands Handfarm

and probably more. ok, going to go die now

So, I just typed "baller" into google and this came up as the first result!
haha

 

[islandboi8204]

Little SARA tasting today. Appreciation, Lucy Black, Cask Strawberry and Cellarman were standouts for me.

 

[franch]

someone decided it would be a good idea to start busting out the big stouts

o, sorry, that was me.

 

[markgugs]

o, sorry, that was me.

lol I literally drank one of those (GM)

 

[SourBrewer]

Labor Day BBQ

'06 vigneronne

'06 iris

Barrel aged aventinus

'07 wild dog gonzo

2013 abyss

'94 triple bock

'09 Brabant and Pizza Port

Lost Coast dry hopped Great White (unreleased)

 

[RyanG1]

Kill shot from a hump day share with good friends

 

[MEW1]

Last night's beers with TillTheMedicineTakes and friends!

Backcountry's IPA

Had to take a pic of this delish Italian Flag pizza! Yum!

Batch #3!

And the finale:

 

[ThreeFishes]

Team Florida's packing party, at least as much of it as I was awake for.

There were a few more bottles after this, and some I forgot to snap pics of, but this will give you a good idea of how the night went.

A big thank you to all my teammates who were great to hang with, and who brought awesome beers. Cheers LambicKing, Coldsnack, liquiddegenerate, suprchunk, Lasering, mixed_master7, DaBeerHoarder, kirbmeist, & Badboy7113.

 

[Adam Jackson]

I wanted to introduce some friends to Wild ales so the 5 of us opened a few beers

 

[brian4beer]

Awesome tasting in Sweden w mlefevre Lefty Hyzer Freddy, Magnus, and Lulu

Fart season by malmo brygghus
Loerik
bourgogne
Pinot d'aunis
Zwanze 08
Eszett
Brandy vdl
Pvw dl
Kbbs 14
Hommage
Rodenbach caractere rouge

Now to off to Akkurat

Cheers

 

[Number45]

Awesome tasting in Sweden w mlefevre Lefty Hyzer Freddy, Magnus, and Lulu

Fart season by malmo brygghus
Loerik
bourgogne
Pinot d'aunis
Zwanze 08
Eszett
Brandy vdl
Pvw dl
Kbbs 14
Hommage
Rodenbach caractere rouge

Now to off to Akkurat

Cheers

Report back on Akkurat. Will this be one case where the tasting preceeding an Akkurat trip is better than what one has at Akkurat?

 

[JonathanAmes]

A little 5 man tasting from last weekend. Highlights were BA Abraxas, bvdl, black raz bu, Tempranillo, chez, assassin & my jalapeño chicken wings.

 

[duketheredeemer]

Fart season by malmo brygghus
Cheers

uh,

 

[mlefevre]

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brekeriet-malmo-brygghus-mankerbeer-lt3-fartseason/271288/

uh,

FYI

 

[LukeAleTime]

I wanted to introduce some friends to Wild ales so the 5 of us opened a few beers

Any highlights for the wild rookies?

 

[Adam Jackson]

Any highlights for the wild rookies?

It was pretty interesting. We discussed process of wild ales, various yeast strains. 2 of the 5 people do industrial yeast management (not beer related) so the conversation became incredibly scientific!

One guy knew about Cantillon and was so excited about Iris that he didn't even try Golden Blend or Tilquin which sucks because I like both of those more than Iris.

Everyone enjoyed the HFS saisons a lot and one person remarked that "I've hated every saison I've had until tonight" and another person complained that none of these beers were heavy on acetone which she liked rodenbach a lot so that's why I brought out the CS Cherry Origins and she loved it.

Overall good time but i should have picekd more accessible sours. Then again, HFS is accessible for us but most of the other stuff isn't.

 

[LukeAleTime]

It was pretty interesting. We discussed process of wild ales, various yeast strains. 2 of the 5 people do industrial yeast management (not beer related) so the conversation became incredibly scientific!

One guy knew about Cantillon and was so excited about Iris that he didn't even try Golden Blend or Tilquin which sucks because I like both of those more than Iris.

Everyone enjoyed the HFS saisons a lot and one person remarked that "I've hated every saison I've had until tonight" and another person complained that none of these beers were heavy on acetone which she liked rodenbach a lot so that's why I brought out the CS Cherry Origins and she loved it.

Overall good time but i should have picekd more accessible sours. Then again, HFS is accessible for us but most of the other stuff isn't.

It's pretty hard to know what people are going to like with sours. I had a mate who I'd go drinking with sometimes and he'd tried all the standard "gateway" beers but he never seemed too enthusiastic about any. Then one night I spied a bottle of Iris that a bar had for $22 (think it was a mistake...) so I asked if he wanted to split it.

It literally changed his life. He went from not really being a beer fan to "omg I need all the beers".

 

[duketheredeemer]

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brekeriet-malmo-brygghus-mankerbeer-lt3-fartseason/271288/


FYI

Learn something new every day. I still maintain farting knows no season, though.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

Pretty underwhelmed with ToD con Cherries & dat vanilla. Boont BaRLLL was what you'd expect, whole lot of mehhhhhhhhI'dratherbedrinkinggoodbeerrrrrrrr

Dat Apple Pie tho....

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

A little 5 man tasting from last weekend. Highlights were BA Abraxas, bvdl, black raz bu, Tempranillo, chez, assassin & my jalapeño chicken wings.

How is that possible between 5 ppl? Are you not finishing beers or something?

 

[JonathanAmes]

How is that possible between 5 ppl? Are you not finishing beers or something?

The last 3 bottles we popped were the Sumps & we didn't finish all of them but other than that we drank everything. We started @ 3 & went way late. It was impressive. SocalKicks can verify.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

The last 3 bottles we popped were the Sumps & we didn't finish all of them but other than that we drank everything. We started @ 3 & went way late. It was impressive. SocalKicks can verify.

 

[Lukepistol88]

 

[SocalKicks]

A little 5 man tasting from last weekend. Highlights were BA Abraxas, bvdl, black raz bu, Tempranillo, chez, assassin & my jalapeño chicken wings.

The last 3 bottles we popped were the Sumps & we didn't finish all of them but other than that we drank everything. We started @ 3 & went way late. It was impressive. SocalKicks can verify.

I crushed my sumps... and completely passed out right after that... but yeah over the course of 10 or 11 hours we did some damage. Individual highlights for me:

Abraxas and BA Abraxas

BVDL and Brandy DL

Pappy Assassin and PVW 20

Wild Peach and Chez (Chez kills it still)

Sump, BA Sump, Kyoto BA Sump

Paraguesia 1, definitely a stand out from this tasting for me. ISO!

Awesome tasting and felt relatively good the next day!

 

[JoeBacillus]

Orlando whale slaying over the weekend

Best.stout.ever

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/WHA6B (there's a cat!)

I hate tasting shots with no opinions, so have some quick notes: (top 5)

• Wizard Burial Ground | The barrel did incredible things to this
• Consigliere | Excellent for a dark sour
• Persimmon | Lots of fruit, not the normal acid bomb I was expecting
• Between The Staves | Was hoping for more
• Befuddlement | Was hoping for more
• Murda’d Out | World class, especially considering Baller was a let down
• BA Abraxas | This is the best stout I've ever had
• DB Hunahpu - | World class, but BAA takes the crown
• El Cid | Best of the Campeador series, chocolate oranges
• Dark Lord Moscatel | We opened this last, to ensure our pallates were already wrecked, beer was 100% barrel, but not as horrid as expected
• Deal with the Devil | We let it warm up, can't believe how smooth it was for the 17% abv
• BA Hi-Fi Rye | Even warm it was like ba cocoa cola, though I don't enjoy the style...

 

[Jaminjohnson]

Tasting on Sunday, couple people are on here I think JasonR Shep levon15 Brewgulper

Yes I am not a photographer

Highlights were the bullfrogs, winefication, cask strawberry, de garde/sp desay Chardonnay, always happy to drink more coolship red too

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

 

[OakedCanuck]

Two bro bang tonight. With EnemyBrewer

Not pictured: About a gallon of Homebrew saisons (blackberry hibiscus using Fantome dregs, Meyer lemon and dandelions with Ale Apothecary/Upright dregs) that make HF look like Sam Adams. Serious.

Very Sour Peach
2011 Kate the Great
2012 Fou
Unblended #40

Brap yup.

 

[GetchaPull]

Two buddies (noobs just getting started) rolled through yesterday for some grillin' and chillin'. Busted out a little variety to expand their horizons/pop their cherries.



Sours and BCBS were a bit too much for them. But, if we're gonna get wet, might as well go swimming.

White Chocolate = infected. Even one of my buddies smelled it first and said "green apples"....****. I guess it was that vintage. Thanks Bruery.

 

[Adam Jackson]

Pre-Zwanze share @ My house. 10 people, 48 hours (there are some bottles and a few growlers not pictured. Also everyone got pours of kegged BCS I think)

I linked to the full res images so you can click on them and view full-size...lots of bottles. Michigan always asks for highlights! I think we checked in to 67 unique beers (including Zwanze Day) from Thursday to Saturday. I only got 22 new unique beer ratings during that time which is still a good number.

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Huge fan of R&D beers from New Glarus. The CCB Cafe Americano rocked! Crianza was good but not great, Le Bleu was awesome. Two year old Clara and Everett were a nice treat. The Uli Oude Gueuze "Bitter" was really nice! Super funky and cheesy. great weekend! way too much alcohol.

Here are a few Zwanze Day picks: