Random Beer Thoughts

[jdd419]

Bourbon County variant labels:

http://tenemu.com/news/goose-island...ounty-brand-barleywine-details-emerge/06/2017

-Barleywine Reserve: aged in 35 year old Heaven Hill barrels (presumably the ones that held Rare '15)
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Black Cat Expresso beans
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Guatemalan Itzamna beans
-Proprietor's: bananas, almonds, and cassia Bark
-Northwoods Stout: blueberry juice and almond extract
-BCBS Reserve: aged in 11 year old Knob Creek barrels

Bananas? Almond extract? Blueberry juice? ******* lol.

RateBeer has Banana Prop listed as the #1 beer with the rest of the lineup in the top 20.

 

[boogercrack]

I wonder how many of these they can manage to not infect.

 

[stupac2]

Bourbon County variant labels:

http://tenemu.com/news/goose-island...ounty-brand-barleywine-details-emerge/06/2017

-Barleywine Reserve: aged in 35 year old Heaven Hill barrels (presumably the ones that held Rare '15)
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Black Cat Expresso beans
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Guatemalan Itzamna beans
-Proprietor's: bananas, almonds, and cassia Bark
-Northwoods Stout: blueberry juice and almond extract
-BCBS Reserve: aged in 11 year old Knob Creek barrels

Bananas? Almond extract? Blueberry juice? ******* lol.

What the actual ****? Well I guess it's nice to not have to worry about trying to trade for any of the hard-to-get ones.

 

[mbh]

Chicago tickers are still going to hype up the "banana bomb" and stand outside for 10+ hours

 

[boogercrack]

What the actual ****? Well I guess it's nice to not have to worry about trying to trade for any of the hard-to-get ones.

I guess they listened to people bitching about peppers.


And they went to a place much much worse.

 

[JCastle1]

I kinda wanna try the banana Prop, I think it could work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I had a roasted plantain stout that was incredible.

 

[beerindex]

Suddenly I don't care that they're shrinking Migration Week back down and skipping over cities like Grand Rapids, because even with more normal offerings, I've never felt they were worth the wait and hassle. With (some of) these offerings, I now have gone from low interest in the BCBS range to no interest.

 

[furley]

I kinda wanna try the banana Prop, I think it could work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I had a roasted plantain stout that was incredible.

no, no, the narrative here is that anything BCS is now absolutely bottom of the barrel ******. we don't even need to try it to know that. keep up.

 

[NAPO]

Barleywines are such an abomination, but Sierra Nevada Bigfoot keeps making me drink them.

 

[tikk]

Barleywines are such an abomination, but Sierra Nevada Bigfoot keeps making me drink them.

Some will say Barleywine is life, I will say that barleywine is amazing.

 

[girlscantell]

I guess they listened to people bitching about peppers.


And they went to a place much much worse.

Can't disagree. Also: "Reserve"? Guessing they also listened to people bitching about how '15 Rare wasn't "rare."

 

[regularjohn]

Bourbon County variant labels:

http://tenemu.com/news/goose-island...ounty-brand-barleywine-details-emerge/06/2017

-Barleywine Reserve: aged in 35 year old Heaven Hill barrels (presumably the ones that held Rare '15)
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Black Cat Expresso beans
-Coffee with Intelligentsia Guatemalan Itzamna beans
-Proprietor's: bananas, almonds, and cassia Bark
-Northwoods Stout: blueberry juice and almond extract
-BCBS Reserve: aged in 11 year old Knob Creek barrels

Bananas? Almond extract? Blueberry juice? ******* lol.

it's crazy how ****** these variants are now, good lord

 

[JCastle1]

it's crazy how ****** these variants are now, good lord

The fruited variant has always been gross but it sounds extra gross this year.

 

[JCastle1]

Also I'm really hoping they finally release this beauty:

They got label approval last year but never released it, wasn't quite ready to go.

 

[boogercrack]

The fruited variant has always been gross but it sounds extra gross this year.

Naw man. Backyard and Bramble were tits.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

Naw man. Backyard and Bramble were tits.

 

[JCastle1]

Naw man. Backyard and Bramble were tits.

Agree to disagree. Although those were ok compared to the abomination that was Cherry Rye.

 

[Kentucky1]

Agree to disagree. Although those were ok compared to the abomination that was Cherry Rye.

I ******* loved Cherry Rye. It's amazing how diverse our face holes are.

 

[RedCoffee]

Naw man. Backyard and Bramble were tits.

That's what makes all of their dumb ******** all the more silly. It doesn't have to be this hard, Goose!

- Make a version where you mash up some berries and toss em in the barrels.
- Make a version with coffee. Not two! One is fine. If you don't trust that you can make one that's good so you have to try two at once, just skip it for a year or something.
- One loaded with vanilla/maple syrup/candy
- One with chili peppers if you can make it not just taste like liquid Chipotle barbacoa. If you cannot do this yet, make zero of these.
- One crazy brainstorm-diarrhea beer that you release only in Chicago

Looks like they rolled past a Dunkin Donuts, took a pic of the flavor pumps available, and called it good.

 

[JCastle1]

At least they sound better than the majority of Dark Lord variants. Goose Island know they could put fish sticks in there and everyone would still buy them up anyway, I don't mind seeing some weird experiments.

 

[RedCoffee]

At least they sound better than the majority of Dark Lord variants. Goose Island know they could put fish sticks in there and everyone would still buy them up anyway, I don't mind seeing some weird experiments.

Not to belabor the point, but

 

[trickytunadicky]

So which will be the first to make a garlic aoli stout?

 

[boogercrack]

So which will be the first to make a garlic aoli stout?

Settle down there, Satan

 

[furley]

That's what makes all of their dumb ******** all the more silly. It doesn't have to be this hard, Goose!

i can't decide which would make beer nerds more irate: Goose releases the same 3-4 "variants" year over year in perpetuity or Goose releases 3-4 new "variants" year over year.

which is worse stagnation or creativity?

 

[boogercrack]

i can't decide which would make beer nerds more irate: Goose releases the same 3-4 "variants" year over year in perpetuity or Goose releases 3-4 new "variants" year over year.

which is worse stagnation or creativity?

Dude that's exactly what they're doing already. Releasing a coffee/bw variant every year in perpetuity, and new variants year over year with the alternating rye/fruited and proprietiers.

 

[furley]

Dude that's exactly what they're doing already. Releasing a coffee/bw variant every year in perpetuity, and new variants year over year with the alternating rye/fruited and proprietiers.

#worldscolliding

 

[RedCoffee]

i can't decide which would make beer nerds more irate: Goose releases the same 3-4 "variants" year over year in perpetuity or Goose releases 3-4 new "variants" year over year.

which is worse stagnation or creativity?

I'm #sorrynotsorry! This makes about 3 years in a row now where my collective reaction to their BCBS lineup has been some variation on:

If this is how they do "creativity," I'd happily take the "stagnation" option. Give me something like this lineup every year and I'm not crying about "stagnation" any time soon:
- Coffee
- Vanilla Rye
- Coconut/Prop '13
- Bramble/Backyard

For that matter, part of this isn't even about the creativity. It's the shift in the way they do the additives. If I'm paying premium price and potentially having to wait in long lines for it, I don't want a stout brewed with "extract." GTFO with that obvious shortcut ********. Same with the shift from adding mashed up fresh fruit to the use of cherry juice for Regal and blueberry juice for Northwoods - it's basically a cocktail.

Beer nerds are a persnickety and whiny group but I don't think Goose has been getting LOLed at for their variant lineup just because beer hipsters hate everything.

 

[furley]

but a lot of it is because beer people hate everything

also, maybe don't buy it?

i dunno. i like BCS and i'll get some if it comes around but not going to lose sleep over a blueberry variant that i have no interest tasting

:shruggif:

 

[stupac2]

but a lot of it is because beer people hate everything

also, maybe don't buy it?

i dunno. i like BCS and i'll get some if it comes around but not going to lose sleep over a blueberry variant that i have no interest tasting

:shruggif:

Well sure, people who are complaining just won't buy it (well, I hope), but it's a loss because the lineup RedCoffee posted would mean more good beer in our lives, compared to this lineup of crap. It's sad compared to what could be.

 

[RedCoffee]

also, maybe don't buy it?

Won't be hard to do!