The Bruery Announcements/Allocations

now the jokes above make sense. I didnt stop to think that people would pronounce it "boys." damn education.

 

Beer nerd: "Hey, tonight I'm doing a vertical tasting of queer, fruit, and boys!"
Non-beer nerd friend: "Dude..."

 

I drink 1 bomber a night during the workweek, but they aren't all super high alcohol beers every night.

I also run 4-6 miles every work day, and row on the weekends, you tell me which side of the health spectrum I come out on.

 

I won't get too deep into this as we're getting crazy OT (I have a tendency to do that) but exercise doesn't help the liver as much as people may think. After exercise, your liver is stressed and creates specific enzymes that are often found elevated in people with liver disease such as hepatitis, fibrosis, cancer, etc. Combine that with binge drinking on the weekends and you may be developing a problem. Only blood tests like cholesterol and chemistry panels will tell you what's going on.

If you want more info, feel free to shoot me a message. And a disclaimer - I drink a lot too, so there's no judgement here. Just more of a PSA to those who think that exercise can totally offset heavy drinking.

 

The 'no limit' on Smoking Wood is pretty hilarious. I suspect they'll be similarly generous with BA 5 Golden Rings.

 

I am excited about the Bois variants...but I think I am going to pass on them. I really want to try them before committing $30 a pop. Not saying they are "over priced", just expensive, and it is getting harder and harder to justify spending that much on a single bottle. It would be cool it the Bruery left these beers on tap during the entire time allocation are available. Though if I got to try them all there, I would be able to tick them and not buy bottles, so I understand why that wouldn't work too.

I was a little bummed CR was not on tap this past weekend. I was hoping it would be up since this is the first weekend allocations were available. Does anyone know how long it lasted at in the tap room? No matter what I found plenty to drink.

Got to try Oats McGoats in the tasting room, does anyone know if this is the blueberry sour they are talking about releasing?

 

It's not a society exclusive on tap, and I found it underwhelming when I tried it a few weeks ago. Interesting as a novelty of being a 100% oat beer, and not a bad tasting room experiment, but I would definitely pass on any allocations if they offered it for sale.

I actually would like to see more experiments in that direction - fruited beers fermented with Hottenroth cultures - but I don't think they quite hit the mark with Oats McGoats.

 

1) We are going to be serving a flight of the 4 2013 versions and a special old keg pretty soon. We are only using those 1/6 bbl kegs for flights, so they should last pretty long. that's scheduled for May 9, but that's not set in stone.
1.5) Generally, I'm trying to make every beer available to taste before the sale window closes.

2) The upcoming blueberry sour is our traditional sour blonde w/ blueberries sitting in the barrels right now, Not Oats McGoats.

3) I think we poured through 7 kegs of CR while it was on for member... I'd have liked to kept it on longer, but we only have so much...

Cheers!

 

Thanks for the info. Damn you guys went through a lot of CR!

 

That's going to be one oaky bitch.

 

yea i was just thinking this morning that i thought there was supposed to be a french oak bois too. i wonder why it is coming out so much later then the others

 

Maybe it takes longer for the oak to impart flavors. Maybe they want it to be an oaky bitch. We'll see!

 

im sure french oak does take longer to impart flavor but i dont know about an additional six months

 

It takes longer because it's so much weaker. Because it's French.

Making an oaky bitch out of bitchy oak just takes time.


....'murica.

 

i wonder if the majority of members are going to max out allocations on all 3 variations of the bois

 

Seeing as it's only 2/4, I would think most are. I'm really excited about the variants since I loved Fruet and these are all great barrels. I'd be way less excited if one were tequila or red wine or something.

 

Besides, West Coast whalez, brah. people love variants.

Knowing that they'll have a tasting option for all of them, I'm not maxing my allocations out on it. I still have plenty of past anniversary beers. And while they are tasting, the price tag limits the other great beer I can be drinking.

 

Obligatory silly question: which variant of Bois do we receive two bottles of that was included in our membership price?

I assumed it was Bois (Bourbon) since its the "regular" anniversary now that they're bourbon-ing the anniversaries going forward but is it the Bois (French Oak), which I thought was only a special release at end of year?