Official tasting pictures thread

[mrk_d]

Got together with 4 other people last night for a share. While I regret getting into Chocolate Rain at 1am last night, the share was a success overall - almost everything was really enjoyable.

Highlights/notes:

- A&T was fantastic. We had a 2014 OG next to it for comparison, and the A&T had way more funk and complexity. It tasted like cedar, wet hay, feet, and a little bit of lemon.

- 2007 label Iris (2010 cork) was sublime. Perhaps my favorite of the night, and I think the best Cantillon bottle I've had.

- 2011 St. Lam was drinking well, nicely tart with some grape hanging around still. I haven't had St. Lam in a while, and to be honest I thought it was very, very good, but not as good as Iris or LPG (and I have always maintained that St. Lam is my favorite Cantillon). I am curious to try a fresh-ish bottle and an old bottle in the future just to see where I prefer this at, or to determine if my tastes have shifted towards other beers.

- 2010 LPG was surprisingly awesome given how fresh it is. Really loved this.

- 2009 Vigneronne was a mess. Really acidic, not particularly enjoyable - a few ounces was definitely enough.

- degardebrewing Imperial Blackberry Bu was delicious, straight berries with that delicious funky De Garde base. One of my favorite fruited De Garde beers for sure, though I admittedly haven't tried that many.

- Hottenroth w/ Peaches was terrible, tons of diacetyl (and I have a pretty high threshold).

 

[Doc1]

My super fancy tasting shot.

 

[tennispl]

My super fancy tasting shot.

Sick water bro, what batch?

 

[Doc1]

Sick water bro, what batch?

Batch 2,183,384,239,199. You know. The good one.

 

[ASak10]

After hitting up Casey earlier we had a nice little share last night with Kramerbarthomer and lembeeker (and two others that I don't think are on here). Sorry for the ****** pics. These guys were all way too ******* generous with the beers that were being opened...was a great night.

Some notes:

BVDL '13...infected We actually ended up mixing it with Legend of the Liquid Brain (first bottling, so I think from 2013, still drinking awesome), XVIII, and BA Ten Fidy, and it may have been the best beer of the night! It was a legitimately good blend.

SR-71 was incredible. Rich, velvety texture that was just a pleasure to drink.

I thought Hommage ('13) was awesome but some people picked up some band-aid in there. I've never had it fresh so can't compare.

BA Ten Fidy crowler was over 6 months old and held up great.

Allagash beers were all incredible, I need more of these in my life.

Biere de Norma also incredible, and the Imperial Bus were both amazing.

 

[Kramerbarthomer]

We actually ended up mixing it with Legend of the Liquid Brain (first bottling, so I think from 2013, still drinking awesome), XVIII, and BA Ten Fidy, and it may have been the best beer of the night! It was a legitimately good blend.

....don't you mean ....

BAGAVDL10.5LotLBXVIIIIIIIIIIII-ish ???

 

[beer me now]

Sorry, it's from my Instagram.

 

[kindaphunky]

Hows the snozz doing? I haven't had one since release day.

Sorry, it's from my Instagram.

 

[beer me now]

Hows the snozz doing? I haven't had one since release day.

Delicious!

 

[Lovepea1]

Decided to thin the fridge a little. Hubby and I had another 2 couples over. We were thirtsty.

 

[kzeon]

Amazing tasting day with oldp0rt, bloguedebieres and itsajones!

This was the 1st part of a whole Cascade tasting (no way we were doing all of them in a single day. Fullset here)

 

[lopejuice1]

Drank a couple beers last night, as you can tell from the top notch photography... Personal highlights were Lebleu, CD 11, DBH, Imp Stone Bu, Para 4, and Starkeller Peach also not pictured 14 Vera Mae which is drinking great right now. Jimmy was as bad as I'm sure you can imagine.

 

[islandboi8204]

Started withSARA bottles last night. FP1,2 were tops

Then moved to the others. BVDL 15 was best of the night. Oh, and preban 4LOKO to close, of course

 

[tennispl]

Saison tasting last night with TheAbyss and Bud Light Lime Express, standouts were cellarman (thanks DubNation0511) and the Forest and Main, with Upright Anniversary also delicious. And thank you to shelf_turd_ferguson for the Mad Meg, also tasty!

 

[Mindtrip2012]

Two man sour Sunday. Fav was Golden Angel

 

[cultclassic89]

Had a small share yesterday with Jvrdz24 and a couple other guys not yet on here.

Highlights for me were The Statement, Oddwood Saison, Vicinity, CBS and doming the last of that BLiS for one of the guys to pick up my tab. CBS was the only one of those I hadn't had before. It was really good, but it didn't blow my mind. Did a cuvee of the Saison and Statement, that was incredible. Growler was Gandhi-Bot.

Cheers!

 

[Ispeakforthetrees]

Getting buckwild on a Sunday night in colorado.

with selbyg

 

[waltersrj]

30th birthday tasting from this weekend. Not the best picture quality but the beers were most definitely amazing and some I will never have again. I personally opened the 99' Drie F. OG, 99' Belle Vue Selection, Frambozen, and the Veritas 004. The blabaer was a 2010. Top 3 for me in order: Veritas 004, 99' OG, 10' Blabaer.

 

[Cruize4Gueuze]

Had these last night with halo4one and a couple others.
We set up the share to do a blind tasting so we put the bottles in brown paper bags and one person labeled the beers 1-5. Number 4 (which happened to be Blauw) exploded when we opened it and foam went everywhere. All the Drie bottles had a lot of pressure in them and could have easily taken someone's eye out.

After pouring all the bottles we tried to guess which beer was what number and no one got a single guess right. We guessed the top three were Blauw, Roze, Crianza, (left to right) and then the bottom two 50th and JCN. But the correct order was JCN, Crianza, Roze, Blauw, 50th. And it was almost unanimous the order we ranked them in. JCN was ranked the highest by everyone, followed by blauw, then crianza, then roze, then 50th. There was one person there who was visibly upset that he picked cantillon geuze over drie geuze, haha. All the beers were great and I'm lucky to have been able to try all of them. Hoping to do several more like this in the future.

I've got geuze burps still. And it's great.

 

[GuzzleMcBrew]

Banged a bunch of peaches with blckout20 and a couple other friends while we had a little yard shindig last weekend at my place. We filled in every nook and cranny between peach sours with Tree House cans and watched the fireworks feeling great. Imperial Stone Bu is some pretty amazing stuff. Regular Peach Bu is really interesting and tasty- so much funky fruit flesh going on my girlfriend noticed it had a little almost pumpkin flesh like character.

Missing some obvious players - NG Wild Peach, Fuzzy. Trading for Fuzzy once was enough, but it would have been right up there with my favorites.

 

[GuzzleMcBrew]

addendum to last post:

 

[GetchaPull]

suprchunk, his better half, and I took these down last night. A couple of these I will probably never try again and they were great. Huge thanks to the two of them and Head-high for these awesome beers!

Faucet bottle is Oak Theory and not pictured are 2x Tropicalia and an Athena.

 

[DCLA]

Took down a few bottles with bird22 Billf and a few other cool people. Highlights:
Isabelle Proximus
2011 Fou Foune
Cask Cherry
The Cut: Sour Balaton Cherry
Stenciled Pages
2008 Lou Pepe Framboise
Orviamo
Derivation Blend 1&2 - overrated

And this guy that was for dessert:

 

[ficklenicholas]

Attended an insane blind tasting yesterday with fellow TBers amk SocalKicks jmgrub

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64 total bottles

Some of the highlights:

Midnight Sun M
Lost Abbey Veritas 001/002, Isabelle Proximus, Brouwer's Imagination, DDG '13, Cable Car '10
RR Beat Batch3, Deviation, Consecration Batch 1
3 Fonteinen Zomer, '04 Kriek, Malvasia Rosso '03
Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek '03, Iris '05, Bläbaer '11, Zwanze '10, Jean Chris Nomad, 50N4E '12
SR 71, Bramble Rye, '09 Black Tuesday

 

[mjshearer1]

Burned through some El Cat beers with GRDave last night. Also popped my de Garde cherry, and it was amazing.

 

[BusinessSloth]

cyde. mwbbq. deadmolecules. mdeluna. Sorry if I forgot anyone, don't know your tag, or you're just not on TB.

 

[BusinessSloth]

cyde. mwbbq. deadmolecules. mdeluna. Sorry if I forgot anyone, don't know your tag, or you're just not on TB.

Compton25. MChand2

 

[ficklenicholas]

cyde. mwbbq. deadmolecules. mdeluna. Sorry if I forgot anyone, don't know your tag, or you're just not on TB.

What was the consensus with the Fundamental Observation vs. Vanilla Rye side by side?

 

[cyde]

What was the consensus with the Fundamental Observation vs. Vanilla Rye side by side?

Fundamental is in a better place right now. Vanilla bean forward without coming off as cloying vanilla extract. Pretty much perfect right out the gate. VR seems like it needs more time to mellow out but still fantastic.

 

[BusinessSloth]

Oh yeah Lutter