Bourbon County Barleywine

Pick a beer store next to a Target.
Slip each soccer mom in the horde outside a coupon for 50 cents off some crap.
Tell them to throw elbows and knees at any man not wearing a yellow sweater.
Wear a yellow sweater to go buy BCBBW.
Don't step on anyone's nuts on the way into the store because that ain't cool, bro.

 

Absolutely hilarious post. Just gave me a good chuckle. And I love chuckles.

 

I was told a couple weeks ago it still needs about 7 months in the barrel.

 

It comes out in November.

 

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bourbon-county-barleywine.61899/page-10#post-1282503

Sounds like a solid source....

 

Hope some makes its way to Indiana

 

I can't completely disagree with your logic, however I would be remiss if I didn't point out that fbs is a great beer. One of my, and I'm sure many others favorite easy to get stouts.

That being said, who knows that it would barrel age well, maybe founders tried at some point and it just didn't make the cut. I'd be willing to agree thigh that there probably is a good reason some highly regarded ba beers don't have a base beer release/availability simply because they're not that good without the barrel treatment and excellent with it.

 

Brett Porter told me on Saturday that it's going to be fucking fantastic. His words, not mine. He said specifically to make sure not to miss it. He brought it up himself in discussion. I took note of it. I just talked to him at the Binny's Lincoln Park event, it's not like we're buddys or anything so take it for what it's worth.

 

I think we need to give Brett an alias . . . how about GI Super Star?!?! For the lazy, *this guy* I skimmed this post and got all excited making up my own story . . . Goose Island will be releasing Bourbon County Brand Barleywine Brett, which is a barleywine aged in spent BCBS barrels with the addition of brett. The mind is a powerful thing at making up stories that it wants to hear hahahaha

 

LMAO I was at the same event, Brett was drunk off his ass.

 

I thought so, but I wasn't sure. HAHA He was a riot. Greg Hall was fun too. Great time at that event. Brett just decided to buy a $19 mini-bottle of a Plum Sour from Italy, crack it open, and give it out for sampling.

 

Oh, yeah, I agree that FBS is a great beer (honestly I think it's better than KBS), but I do find it interesting that it's not KBS's base. I have no idea how well it would barrel-age, maybe it'd work great, but maybe it won't! As far as I'm concerned this is all voodoo. Maybe if I can spot Bryndolson at FWI I'll try to chat with him about this topic, he probably knows it all.

 

Brett Porter told me that it would be available at the Black Friday party and would get distributed sometime after that

This was at GI's block party last weekend

 

So...verdict?

 

He seemed kind of drunk

 

I totally misread your prior post, thinking that the "This" you were referring to was BCBBW. Dammit...

 

let me clarify

Brett Porter said at the GI block party last weekend that the Bourbon County Barleywine would be released at their annual Black Friday Party in November, and that it would see distribution sometime after that

 

As of the 25th Anniversary Block Party last Sunday, it looked like it was still being aged.

At least, in their barrel warehouse, there were a tower of barrels, presumably aging, and labeled "Barley Wine". So based on that, I should say that it's not quite ready to bottle.

 

Mmmm LoverBeer

 

Is there any demand for LoverBeer outside of NYC and/or Italy? B/c I have access to a ton of it that's too expensive for me to justify the expenditure but if people want it, BM me.