Official tasting pictures thread

[trickytunadicky]

Pre-turkey day tasting with Lognar and fear025. Homebrews on the right are from nanobrew.

 

[regularjohn]

little bday/holiday share for my buddy dave and some other amazing people. some notes: cd14 is incredible, seriously this is better than cd11 by a long shot. gin clara was interesting and that's it...nothing special and regular clara is better FWIW. trillium was on point, 2012 coffee is still pretty good but definitely falling off...drink it if you have one. 2015 bcbs was surprisingly good and comparable to older vintages of bcbs. both the trilliums were good. leaves of grass was tasty but a total gusher.

 

[PHILIPPE1]

Small tasting with a buddy last night. We did Sip Tesseract and Citra Blind. My order was Tesseract, Citra then Sip as tesseract was just so much fruitier than all the other ones. My buddy picked Citra, Tesseract, then Sip given how complex the nose was on Citra. It was a little too graham cracker sweet and bitter for my taste. LoG really funky with only a little bit of sour apple candy sweetness in the back, very balanced.


Nelson Hose was great and Gin Clara really blew me away. It just managed to pick all the amazing qualities of a good gin (tropical fruit, spice, floral) without any alcohol burn. Really bummed it is such a limited brew because it turned out amazing, really hopes he does more stuff with those Gin makers again.

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[cultclassic89]

Kind of potato-ish, from last Friday with Jvrdz24 wallham and another buddy and their significant others.

From left to right: SARA/HF Works of Love '13, Rare '15, To The Choir, Nectarine Bu, Synthesis Analogous, Hunter Coconut, Cherry Raz Gose, Framboos '14, Peach Fruit Stand, Nonna's 9, RdG '15, Black Label '15, Cherry Blu Bu, Peach Family Preserves, Palimpsest and Snowed In.

Standouts of the night for me were Works of Love, Rare, To The Choir, Synthesis Analogous, Nectarine Bu, Framboos and Snowed In, but everything was great.

Works of Love: Beautiful blend of HF and SARA. The funk stands out. Maybe the best saison I've ever had.
Rare: Barrel character is huge. Tons of bourbon, coconut, caramel and oak. Dark chocolate underneath. I've seen some mixed reviews, but I loved it.
To The Choir: Another incredible saison. The wine barrel character was amazing, one of the best and my favorite SARA saison to date.
Nectarine Bu: Funky nectarine juice. Reminiscent of Nectarine Premiere but with more funk.
Synthesis Analogous: Big sherry barrel character that melds so well with the fruit. Really dry and oaky.
Hunter Coconut: Really nutty coconut presence, more like hazelnut to me. Pretty good stuff.
Cherry Raz Gose: Raspberries in this bottle were huge. So bright and jammy.
Framboos: Basically still, which was its only deterrent. The nose on this beer is just amazing to me. Really bright raspberry jam.
Peach Fruit Stand: A bit buttery at first, but it opened up nicely. Not as jammy as the preserves.
Nonna's 9: Another fantastic SARA saison, up there with the other two saisons.
RdG: 9/28/15 bottling. Pretty nice balance of fruit and funk, this is a great batch.
Black Label: x2016 cork, really reminded me of a cross between Cantillon and 3F. Great stuff.
Cherry Blu Bu: Cherries are so bright and fleshy here. Bit of that cinnamon pie quality.
Peach Family Preserves: de Garde esq fruit quality. Just straight peach juice almost, bit of malt character on the finish.
Palimpsest: Best Flanders red style ale I've had. Clean and incredibly balanced.
Snowed In: Coconut was insane here, most coconut forward beer I've had. Barrel character and malt came out very nicely as it opened up.

Thanks guys! Was definitely a share to remember.

 

[drewba1]

And we are missing things that folks wanted to take home like a Gratitude vertical, Cable Car Criek, a couple bottles of 2015 Rare, the White Series, a bunch of homebrew and unlabeled bottles.

Great times as always and already planning on how to improve for 2016.

Cheeers!

Hey pal, great pictures. You did forget one beer though...

This picture is probably weeks late

 

[RyanG1]

 

[RayP]

I love salmon... but salmon jerky? I only give that stuff to my dog.

 

[NAPO]

All BA/Stout night with 2 pallet cleanser IPA's. Good times...

 

[drbenzo1]

Shared some beers with my buddy and the wifey yesterday.

Thanks for the LP thunderbirdesq

 

[thunderbirdesq]

Shared some beers with my buddy and the wifey yesterday.

Thanks for the LP thunderbirdesq

Paperhouse is my ******* jam.

 

[Cruize4Gueuze]

Small tasting with my local group. halo4one

 

[Calcifer]

Had a 3-person share on Black Friday.

A few of the highlights:

Fresh Lambiek Special De Cam

2014 Fou Foune

2009 3F OG vs. 2015 3F OG

2014 Mamouche

Pretty great time.

 

[jupiter6xx]

Had some friends over for a small Xmas party & drank some random beers. The BA Old Ale was stupid good. Those 18th Street beers (they just started distribution here randomly) were pretty much garbage.

 

[nophunk]

Awesome share, lots of highlights. Fou was a 2012, drinking well but I prefer 13 right now. Works of Love wins overall for me. Prop is beetus. 04 LPF was very sour, but also deeply complex with basement funk and tons of jam.

 

[sherm10161]

Nice tasting in Milwaukee on Saturday evening with kalvarez, elkhunter36, Bucky9z, bigred, and some others.

 

[sunnrider]

Was planned as a stout tasting and then a few interesting lambics showed up.
Top stout of the night was Pallet #1 by popular consensus, personally I preferred the Bourbon BA Speedway.

 

[brian4beer]

Finally getting around to posting some picks from a tasting in Jersey

A couple others were consumed but didnt get pics. Some cool old ticks but seeing some old friends and meeting new people was the best part for me.

 

[jdd419]

Xmas tasting with the family. Had a good time. Brett's rose and Sucuba were my favorites. Never had the anniversary beers before, both were good but not great. DBA was a surprise, I thought I would hate that beer.

 

[Bill2]

Finally getting around to posting some picks from a tasting in Jersey

A couple others were consumed but didnt get pics. Some cool old ticks but seeing some old friends and meeting new people was the best part for me.

Love the ridiculous amount of head still on the Iris. That's my favorite beer.

 

[jmgrub]

Had a fun weekend hanging with winthrop, his better half, and their long-haired dachshund, Gus.

Not pictured: Ale Apoth BeerMongers, HF Dorothy, and de Garde Bu Rice.

 

[jdd419]

Family tasting #2
Sours
Peche 'n Brett was amazing
West Ashely was as advertised
Fou '13 was awesome
Both tilquin mure and quetsche were better than I expected

Stouts
Morning Delight is the real deal
Rare was very good
Prop was amazing
No Rules was the surprise


Great time, love having brother in laws that are beer nerds.

 

[GetchaPull]

A small two-man tasting

2,3,1,4 but NGSR was naturally very good with strawberry rhubarb pie. Doesjel is '06, GB is '14.

 

[brian4beer]

Love the ridiculous amount of head still on the Iris. That's my favorite beer.

Absoluetly. That beer stole the show for me and was so cool of Raf to bring that as an "extra". I enjoy aged Iris in general- #Neanderthalpalate but this was exceptional. Had a 98 recently but was not as good as this B1.

 

[gameover170]

A two day bang with ButlerinSD over Christmas break. Consensus was Assassin was very disappointing, while FO and Morning Wood were the clear winners

 

[drbenzo1]

Nice little get together with a few good folks last night, including rmaste6282 and zbeetleman.

And thanks for the Eleventh Labor runner440 ! That beer was a huge surprise! Tons of Apricot and just crushable! Loved it!

 

[Der Fuchs]

annual holiday tasting with local folks smart enough not to waste all day on a beer website. Low turnout this year...











juliet is 2010, og black metal, b1, b5 atrial, V12 and V15

mead and filler beers not included.

 

[ASak10]

Got together with a couple friends before Christmas. Fou was outstanding, the Hardywood stouts were great, and Brew 1000 was out of this world good. All the other beers were good too, can't complain about anything we drank.

 

[BravoDawg]

Kill shot for Weds afternoon mini-share with MattyATC and RayP . Happy freaking New Year !!

 

[bvdubn1]

I am in a training class on New Years Eve so I am just going to bombard this thread during my breaks. Some of these pics are old but....

Keeping it censored since I am working.

Random shares including some beers I shared with locals and tourist alike while I was in Belgium.

 

[bvdubn1]

Sorry, I have no idea why it flipped the pictures on their side. That is not how they look on my phone.