Pittsburgh

[Matthouse3]

Why must we always do this?!?!?

Who cares if someone thinks it is awesome and someone else thinks it is very good? We also do not need to list our style pedigree for every beer drank.

What did Teddy think of III?

 

[greg4579]

What did Teddy think of III?

I am pretty sure he tried to steal jeevo 's glass.

 

[beerman6686]

It's pretty obviously a matter of personal preference. But I've had plenty of highly rated BA barleywines. Do I need to rattle off a list to satiate your curiosity?

It's also currently carrying a 4.53 rating on Untappd, so it's not as though jeevo and I are the only ones.

Was more of a rhetorical question than anything. Usually for me to be "blown away" or say its amazing, it's significantly unique or better than most of the better versions of the style which I just didnt get with III. Definitely a great version of an English Barleywine though. Also probably didnt help that I drank OG BA Flying Mouflan and Aaron last night too. Untappd rating doesn't mean much to me considering its all Pittsburgh people so far and any half decent beer has a 4.5 average on there. Hell, it's only going to go up after I put in my fake homer rating .

 

[preluderl]

Was more of a rhetorical question than anything. Usually for me to be "blown away" or say its amazing, it's significantly unique or better than most of the better versions of the style which I just didnt get with III. Definitely a great version of an English Barleywine though. Also probably didnt help that I drank OG BA Flying Mouflan and Aaron last night too. Untappd rating doesn't mean much to me considering its all Pittsburgh people so far and any half decent beer has a 4.5 average on there. Hell, it's only going to go up after I put in my fake homer rating .

It's all subjective. I have a bottle of Aaron that I haven't cracked yet, but I didn't like BA Flying Mouflan at all.

But I'd put III right up against BCBBW (before they ****** it up), ADWTD, K13 and plenty of other highly rated BA barleywines that I've had in the past. That's why this thing (should) so great. There's no right or wrong, and liking or not liking something is never ridiculous.

 

[MooseLang]

liking or not liking something is never ridiculous.

That's up for debate:

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rivertowne-hala-kahiki-pineapple-beer/191316/

 

[kbuzz1]

That's up for debate:

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rivertowne-hala-kahiki-pineapple-beer/191316/

 

[preluderl]

That's up for debate:

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rivertowne-hala-kahiki-pineapple-beer/191316/

kbuzz is ISO rum BA Hala Kahiki.

 

[beerman6686]

It's all subjective. I have a bottle of Aaron that I haven't cracked yet, but I didn't like BA Flying Mouflan at all.

But I'd put III right up against BCBBW (before they ****** it up), ADWTD, K13 and plenty of other highly rated BA barleywines that I've had in the past. That's why this thing (should) so great. There's no right or wrong, and liking or not liking something is never ridiculous.

Did you have the 1st run of Mouflan or the 2nd? The 2nd one is the one most people I know have had. It's only partially barrel aged, and not even close to the same beer. The first completely BA one was a lot more expensiveve too, $320 a case vs. $120 a case.

 

[OneDropSoup]

That's up for debate:

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rivertowne-hala-kahiki-pineapple-beer/191316/

I agree that not liking this beer is ridiculous. No room for debate here.

 

[kbuzz1]

I agree that not liking this beer is ridiculous. No room for debate here.

 

[preluderl]

Did you have the 1st run of Mouflan or the 2nd? The 2nd one is the one most people I know have had. It's only partially barrel aged, and not even close to the same beer. The first completely BA one was a lot more expensiveve too, $320 a case vs. $120 a case.

I don't know which one it was, but it was pretty ******* expensive as I recall. I shared them with kbuzz but his memory is just as bad as mine.

 

[kbuzz1]

beerman6686 - by "run", do you just mean year? Or were there multiple "runs" within one of those years?

If you are just asking which year he had, it was the most recent release. I had bottles from the first and second year and thought both were pretty ******* excellent. I think that might be one of my stranded on an island beers (yes beers, plural. The other would be HH). But if there was further distinction within a year by batch, then I can't speak to which one he got.

 

[preluderl]

beerman6686 - by "run", do you just mean year? Or were there multiple "runs" within one of those years?

If you are just asking which year he had, it was the most recent release. I had bottles from the first and second year and thought both were pretty ******* excellent. I think that might be one of my stranded on an island beers (yes beers, plural. The other would be HH). But if there was further distinction within a year by batch, then I can't speak to which one he got.

They were expensive as hell. Like $20 a piece.

 

[kbuzz1]

That I don't remember...

 

[dadavat]

Did you have the 1st run of Mouflan or the 2nd? The 2nd one is the one most people I know have had. It's only partially barrel aged, and not even close to the same beer. The first completely BA one was a lot more expensiveve too, $320 a case vs. $120 a case.

the first batch has a yellow/orange label, the second batch has a white label. the first batch was 2 year bourbon barrel aged mouflan if i remember correctly. the new batch is 1 year aged in fresh oak and bourbon barrels and is not even close to as good as the first batch.

 

[preluderl]

I'm pretty sure we had the yellow label version.

 

[beerman6686]

the first batch has a yellow/orange label, the second batch has a white label. the first batch was 2 year bourbon barrel aged mouflan if i remember correctly. the new batch is 1 year aged in fresh oak and bourbon barrels and is not even close to as good as the first batch.

This.

 

[Kinney]

I agree that not liking this beer is ridiculous. No room for debate here.

Hala kahiki is poops.


Love pineapple beers but im going for Pineapple scuplin. One of my summer favorites.

 

[preluderl]

This.

The version we had I ticked in late August 2015.

 

[kbuzz1]

**** I'm confused now. I've had both of those bottles. I thought they were just different years.

I loved them both so what do I know. I do seem to remember a price decrease from year 1 to year 2...so that would explain it.

 

[dadavat]

well i'm cheap as hell and i thought that the orange label one was worth every penny of the $14ish i think i cost. on the flip side, i did not think that the white label one was worth $9.

 

[kbuzz1]

Hala kahiki is poops.

 

[preluderl]

**** I'm confused now. I've had both of those bottles. I thought they were just different years.

I loved them both so what do I know. I do seem to remember a price decrease from year 1 to year 2...so that would explain it.

Yeah the ones I got for you and I were of the yellow label, expensive AF variety. I hard passed on the second version.

 

[moarhops1]

Hala kahiki is poops.

You just didn't have the right version, the old version that they haven't made in 4 years is the only good version.

 

[preluderl]

You just didn't have the right version, the old version that they haven't made in 4 years is the only good version.

All versions of both of the recently discussed beers are bad versions of both beers, Brent.

 

[Kinney]

You just didn't have the right version, the old version that they haven't made in 4 years is the only good version.

Ive only had it twice. First time was definitely more than 4 years ago. Still bad IMO

 

[moarhops1]

All versions of both of the recently discussed beers are bad versions of both beers, Brent.

All beer is awful and anyone who enjoys it is an awful person.

 

[beerman6686]

You just didn't have the right version, the old version that they haven't made in 4 years is the only good version.

This is actually true, much better from the teet at the Monroeville location years ago than it is out of the can

 

[Kinney]

I do like babbling blonde for what its worth. But thats probably the only one of their beers that are worthwhile.

 

[Matthouse3]

All beer is awful and anyone who enjoys it is an awful person.