What are you drinking now?

[doug293cz]

Time to do a vertical tasting or wait till a fresh year comes out next year?

Unless the brewery announces an end-of-production for a particular beer, you could wait forever to have "next year's" edition to add to the tasting. Do the tasting before you die, and since you don't know when that will be...

Brew on

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

These do get better with age. I now have bottles from 5 years stashed away. Time to do a vertical tasting or wait till a fresh year comes out next year?

Was gifted a 2014 Bourbon County Brand Stout bomber I think 3 years ago now, and finally got around to sharing it with my son in law (2 years ago? Something like that)... Anyways, it was lousy. Tasted like carbonated, boozy, soy sauce. So don't let them sit forever!

 

[Pennine]

Unless the brewery announces an end-of-production for a particular beer, you could wait forever to have "next year's" edition to add to the tasting. Do the tasting before you die, and since you don't know when that will be...

Brew on

Agreed, I have also heard they get worse after 5 years of aging. I think I have 4 bottles from each year back to 2021 when I started collecting them.

I might add a set in the next beer swap.

 

[Pennine]

Was gifted a 2014 Bourbon County Brand Stout bomber I think 3 years ago now, and finally got around to sharing it with my son in law (2 years ago? Something like that)... Anyways, it was lousy. Tasted like carbonated, boozy, soy sauce. So don't let them sit forever!

I did this with some Westvleteren 12s, after 5 years they ended up getting chunky. They did still taste good though, no soy sauce. Carbonated soy sauce sounds pretty terrible actually.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

I did this with some Westvleteren 12s, after 5 years they ended up getting chunky. They did still taste good though, no soy sauce. Carbonated soy sauce sounds pretty terrible actually.

Yah, it was a dumper

 

[Pennine]

HB best bitter, I tried to make a version of Sussex Best. This cleared up nice and quick.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Yah, it was a dumper

I think 2014 was the last year they stopped unpasteurized stouts due to 2015 which was infected. They were also bought out at that time from what I remember. I still have at least one bottle of 2015. I still drink it because it is amazingly horrific. So many levels of bad.

As for Westy? I've been able to keep them for 12 years. I don't think I sampled them every year but thoroughly enjoyed every sampling. I see suctions where they're over twenty years old for a good price.

My favorite beer tonnage is Orval. That changes a lot to me over the years with it's prime around seven years. There's a dull period to me after that I was sad that I thought that was the limit for my taste buds. But then at around ten years it gets good and complex again..it's an experiment and always fun to find something old and lost.

 

[corkybstewart]

Bruges day 2

 

[mac_1103]

Love that town.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

Sam Adams Boston Lager is the brew that got it all started with me

Sam Adam's got it all started for me too, except it was the Oktoberfest and only being able to get a few months out of the year.

 

[MaxStout]

Sam Adam's got it all started for me too, except it was the Oktoberfest and only being able to get a few months out of the year.

SA got me started, too. Up to that time it was import beer for me (when I had the extra $$$).

My local watering hole had a big promotion one night. People from the distributor on hand, local radio station broadcasting live from there, place was packed. Buy a pint, keep the glass. Refills were like a buck or so (this was late-80s).

Then Summit started distributing in my area, and their pale ale and extra pale ale became my foray into hop-forward beers.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Drinking the coffee, not the egg.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Love that town.

Me too!!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Pit stop at River Roost.

Barleywine (L)
Soaked in Sin Batch #3
This batch, “Edwin’s batch,” was brewed with a large portion of marris otter, long boiled, and aged one year in bourbon barrels.

Porter (R)
Shattered Illusions of Love Batch #7
Baltic porter aged in a blend of bourbon barrels

 

[Section1]

Homebrew English Mild, my Black Cat clone. Love this beer.

 

[day_trippr]

I feel I'm missing something about this picture

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Rafters had all kinds of stuff, magnums of Russian River but I found the books interesting

OT: Zoom meeting in the mountains for code review

 

[Section1]

Homebrew hoppy Blonde Ale.

 

[MaxStout]

Having a HB pale ale, paired with a delicious and nutritious mid-afternoon snack.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Lunch at Humdinger Brewing.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Here's my house ordinary bitter that I kegged yesterday. It's a bit clearer than it looks. As you can see we're enjoying some T-storms at the moment and I just finished cleaning up after a brewday, so it's a sauna in here! There's zero hope of not having that glass instantly fog up.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Having a HB pale ale, paired with a delicious and nutritious mid-afternoon snack.
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Oh, I see you've enrolled in one of those beer and food pairing sommeliers courses. Gotta keep learning to keep the wheels turning, right?

 

[Section1]

Homebrew English Table Ale.

 

[MaxStout]

Oh, I see you've enrolled in one of those beer and food pairing sommeliers courses. Gotta keep learning to keep the wheels turning, right?

Now I'm looking for a beer to pair with Ramen noodles. Maybe Old Milwaukee. Bring back that nostalgia from my broke-ass college days.

 

[BongoYodeler]

HB pale ale

 

[Bramling Cross]

Now I'm looking for a beer to pair with Ramen noodles. Maybe Old Milwaukee. Bring back that nostalgia from my broke-ass college days.

The Beast is a great idea. It's a surprisingly versatile beer when it comes to food pairings. There's very little it doesn't go with.

I have elected to pair an ALDI brand frozen corn dog and ALDI brand yellow mustard with my hefe. The sprightly effervescence of the hefe's carbonation dances hand in glove with the corn dog's turgid greasy-ness while the sweet malt, banana, and spice notes of the hefe both contrasts and complements the corndog's sickening combination of sweetness amplified by excessive saltiness and the mustard's blandness.

 

[Lampy]

Wheat Stout. It is so cold and the weather so humid that there is a cold condensation "vapor" flowing off my glass! Unfortunately this does show up in the pic.

 

[Rish]

SA winter lager

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Freak Folk. Heavy hops here. Came for the hazies loved the lager

Aaaand friggin sun!!!!!

A Loving Tongue
Brewed with American barley and oats. Hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo and Citra.

Melted
Brewed with Nelson, Citra, & Galaxy hops

Impressed with their lager Pronghorn

Unfiltered Barvarian-Style Helles Lager. Spunded for natural carbonation and lagered for 6 weeks.

 

[Pennine]

HB dark mild next to the German Pils I just brewed. Surprisingly happy with those husky huskless malt from Briess.