I almost bought one of those yesterday, I will take that as a recommendation (to split w/Laurie)
― sleeve, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
xpost It's one of the few beer festivals that is still worth the money most are charging these days. So many special beers and one offs that you would never be able to try otherwise. In talking with local brewers, it along with the Great American Beer Festival are the ones they get the most excited about to showcase their creativity.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
i tend to let my barrel aged beers sit, but it's not always a necessity. i haven't gotten any backwoods bastard yet this season. i'll probably get two; one to drink on a cold night when i want to get loopy and one to save until next year.i've got a few things in my fridge now, like last year's KBS, last year's bourbon county coffee stout, and the bourbon county barleywine. note that i am also a fan of letting big ABV stouts and such sit around, even if they are not barrel aged. i have one of those evil twin "I love you with my stout" bottles, but I need to split it with someobody; 12% is tooooo much for meeee xposts
― ian, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's useful to remember a lot of beer ppl aren't bourbon drinkers,
yea definitely, before i started drinking bourbon i often described a beer as "too boozy and hot" but now a bourbon presence never really overwhelms
― marcos, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
now that i think about it, the bourbon county coffee was fucking delicious fresh, but i'm curious what aging will do.
― ian, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Had a 2012 BCBCS a few weeks ago. Coffee had definitely faded, but still present. Was delicious.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
http://beergraphs.com/bg/584-palate-effects-my-problem-with-beer-tasting/
I can totally relate to this, I have the same issues and problems with trying to describe anything I'm tasting with beer. I'd be a horrible judge. I usually just stick to good/bad descriptors.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WvloVyQc8jUJ:www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/what-it-looks-like-when-an-alcoholic-finds-your-cellar.228462/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
all my shit is stored in my actual cellar which is open to the upstairs apartment, always makes me a little nervous.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
CAD, hire me to stand guard in your cellar. I'll make sure only worth people drink the best beers.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
I have yet to try it but I keep laughing at the name of this one when I pass it by in the stores:
http://www.allagash.com/beer/limited-edition/farm-to-face?ao_confirm
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
i'm drinking it right now, it's good
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
i got to visit allagash over the weekend, really nice brewery tour if you happen to be in portland me
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
What did you come home with?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
just two of those farm to faces (that was the limit) to go with one i got around here. they had everything you can normally get in stores well-stocked in the retail shop but that's nothing i need to hoard. you can also buy cases of their brewery-only house beer which they gave out on our tour (apparently that's not standard practice and we just lucked out).
the tasting section of the tour happens in their barrel aging space. all the barrels are clearly marked so it was fun to see what might be coming.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
my brother just came back from a trip back east and handed me a four-pack of heady topper. best brother!
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
went to a de garde release party last weekend, pretty amazing stuff. got in on some bottle pours of perennial abraxas, block 15 super nebula, a few side project saisons, some jester king bottles, and of course super limited de garde craziness such as:
Café SamsonA strong dark beer, with nods towards the imperial stout style, but run through our coolship. Aged in American oak barrels, then infused with Bali Blue Moon coffee beans from Sleepy Monk Coffee Roasters. 11.5%abv,
Maple SamsonThe same base as Café Samson (minus the coffee). Aged for an extended period in Rye Bourbon barrels, then transferred for secondary aging in Bourbon barrels that previously aged Maple Syrup. 12%abv
Earl DesayA blended wild farmhouse ale aged in barrel for over a year. We added a large amount of characterful Oregon buckwheat honey to the barrels to induce a secondary fermentation, then conditioned it with Earl Grey tea after blending. 6.2%abv
that maple samson might be the best beer i've tasted all year. very fruity and vinous for a super strong BA dark sour, subtle maple and a whole lot of other stuff going on in there. cafe samson is maybe the only coffee-sour i've tried, really acidic but bright and fruity in keeping with the whole de garde "thing". i am such a fanboy.
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
farm to face! lol
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
damn dude
we missed you at the FAP! next time I will bug you via PM
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i totally forgot about that! reminders would def help, hopefully there's another one soon
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
siren dot gif
http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2014/11/budweiser_abdicates_the_throne.html#incart_hbx#incart_best-of
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
2 of my local Whole Foods had BCBS out today for $20. Picked up a 4-pack.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:04 (nine years ago) link
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/wan/4777143779.html
Thinking about sending this person on a wild goose chase (heh heh) to a scary part of the south side
― dan m, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
(Not really but the joke had to be made)
― dan m, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
$20 is a great price, well below MSRP. I'd probably buy a case at that price.
Shops are complaining about their allotments around here. Goose is basically making the same amount they did last year. And their are a lot of fingers in the pot with every Walgreens, costco, etc getting some of everything, so everyone gets less. Next year should be better because of the giant new barrel warehouse.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Xpost that guy should just follow this thread http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/places-selling-bcbs-early.230046/
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
I had been planning to buy some at my local Whole Foods, whose beer guy told me they were expecting a bigger than usual shipment, but where distributing to customers on Saturday, to staunch the rush. But now there is a sign in the beer section saying no BCBS this week, and ETA unknown!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
so glad i live in a place where i can easily find abyss, midnight sun berkserker, BA old rasputin, and several other amazing imperial stouts for a reasonable price more or less year round. BCBS is incredible, yes, but so are many many other non ab-inbev brews
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I got my bottles of Parabola at Whole Foods by asking if they had any. The clerk went in the back and brought two of them out (2 was the limit). iow, maybe they're in stock but you have to ask the beer guy there.
Was in Cost Plus/World market last night and they have a "20% off when you buy 4" for beer now as well as wine (all beers, .5 liter and up). Got a big Gulden Draak for under $10 and three California beers for less than I'd pay anywhere else.
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Is there an ILX beer trader report card or is that too gauche?
Oh well, here's mine:
call all destroyer: A+dan m: A+psychgawsple: A+
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
had the sierra nevada north american wild hop ale tonight. it smelled like melon but tasted pretty peppery. very interesting beer.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 27 November 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm getting a bottle of Dark Lord in a trade
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 November 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Never had it, pretty stoked
the allagash farm to face was fantastic fwiw.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 27 November 2014 11:07 (nine years ago) link
it smelled so peachy, i was into it.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
All ILX beer trades I have done have been great! Being in grad school and having no extra cash is kind of cramping my style on that front for the near future.
― dan m, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
ILX beer trades rule.
What doesn't rule? The rumblings of huge crowds and small allotments for tomorrow's Goose Island events.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Wake up early!
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Lines were pretty bad everywhere. I picked up a regular 4-pack at my local Binny's, which is all that was left but fine with me; the other stuff ran out in the first 25 or so people (I got there at opening). But man, first thing in the morning beer nerds smell terrible. The fragrant old guy behind me was clearly aging something in his stomach. He kept threatening that if all the special brews were gone he was going to go home empty handed, because "I have three years of the stout in my basement." Then we got a little closer to checkout and they said they were out of Proprietors. He declares, "I don't want the regular, I've got four years of the stuff in my basement." Then even closer and they're out of the coffee and barleywine. "I don't want the regular, because I've got two years of the stuff in my basement." Yet mysteriously, he keeps waiting in line! Five minutes later, he gets to the check-out, where all they have left is the regular stuff, and poof, he waves his hand and huffs off.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
larger store around here threw a release party, coffee and donuts for first 200 people, etc. etc. didn't really communicate that they only had a single case of vanilla, lol.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Got really lucky today. I was going to get up and wait in the long line at binny's at ass o'clock in the morning, but decided to sleep instead. After running some errands I thought I would go out to Jewel and see if I could at least get some regular. They hadn't gotten anything, so I just went to the liquor store across the street on a whim. Nothing on the shelf, but I saw two bearded dudes in their 30s just standing around while the owner was rooting around in the back. I just looked at them and said, "bourbon county?" Yep, they had just pulled it off the truck and they were waiting for the owner to bring it out. Had no idea what he was going to bring out, but then he trotted out regular, barleywine, vanilla, and proprietors. Bought them all and went home happy. So glad I didn't need to wake up and stand outside in sub-freezing weather to get them.
Still need some more regular though, to last me through the year.
― Jeff, Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
wow good work
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
barely any vanilla around here, i was able to get two each coffee/bw and four 4-packs of regular with not too much effort. need more variants tho.
At the big Binny's here, that gets more Bourbon County than anywhere else in the universe, people started lining up at 4:30 PM yesterday. By the time they opened up at 9:00 AM, there were over 900 people in line. Sold their last bottle at 11:38 AM.
― Jeff, Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
Enforced same day release both more democratic and more encouraging of lining up 12 hours early. Got a lead on coffee tomorrow, but no harm if not. Did pick up a clown shoes extremely angry beast today that was set aside in the consolation pile.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOmTxLqSD0
― Jeff, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Modest line in the local Whole Foods at noon today, so I got a couple of bottles of coffee and barleywine. And they said as much regular as I wanted, so I got two 4-packs. Line smelled much better than local Binny's line.
Just saw a post that people were lining up this morning at the Lake Zurich Binny's as early as 4:30am.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
A friend in the Ann Arbor MI area told told a funny story about going to a store and having a shady looking guy with missing teeth offering to sell him bcbs out of his trunk on the parking lot.
― dan m, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
I still haven't found any but I'd like to think I wouldn't sink to those depths unless the price was really good.
― dan m, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
totally uninterested in chasing beers like this, but I enjoy reading tales of the hunt
drinking Hop Valley Alphadelic atm
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link