Official SA Bishop's Barrel thread

I sat with a woman from the brewery at the St Arnold beer dinner, she said it's totally rum. "rumkinator" she called it.

 

Man, this is awesome. Thanks for the information.

 

Rumpelstiltskin was a good man...

 

forgot to mention, she said it's slated for a 2014 release. If you go to the brewery the white barrels are the rum ones.

 

Had a BB3 last night and thought it was really good. I liked it slightly more than the 1st.

 

ISO: BB3.

Flaked out on MattChow due to scheduling conflicts.

 

Anybody crack open any BB2 as of late?

D&T Has a case of BB2 up for grabs but all the bottles seem to be pretty flippin' overcarbed and the beer is crazy sour now - is this how BB2 is aging or, was it just a bad batch?

When I had it at Stag's Head it was just Christmas Ale with some white wine in it, None of this other crazy stuff.

 

I'm not sure about the carbonation (when I had some a few weeks ago it was fine) but it definitely has taken on more of a tart and funky taste. I actually prefer it more now then I did fresh but I can see it how it would turn some people off depending on what you like. Especially if you liked it fresh, it's quite a different beer now. Whether you like it now or not, kinda cool what a difference different types of yeast can make.

 

Yeah, its definitely changed, but for me, its changed for the better. Developing a real nice sourness right now, although I havent noticed any carb issues.

 

As a matter of fact, I drank one last night. It did have a bit of a tartness to it, but it wasn't overpowering at all. It was actually a nice compliment to it. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would given the description. The spices were also much more noticeable on the nose than in the taste.

And it was definitely not overcarbed, it was undercarbed. I poured it super aggressively and got a very minimal head that didn't last long at all.

 

Poured one yesterday. Got some great head from it.

 

But how was the beer?

 

Was interesting. The nose was reminiscent of gueuze actually. Minus a few pieces like cheesy funk. I didn't care for the taste as much, but in all fairness, I did not allow it to warm up which may have changed it significantly.

 

Wowzers just trying BB2 now. Anyone know of more available in Austin?

 

Try hopfields?

 

Thanks, I know they were out of BB3. Anyone see BB2 out at Stanley's?

 

Nope, just BB3, and dont know if they have any of that left either

 

I was wrong, they have BB3 and are out of BB2.

 

Huh. They must have got another shipment in, because last I was there, they had BB2 and had just run out of BB3. Guess that's the end of the BB2 train... which is a shame, because apparently it just keeps getting better.

 

ISO: BB2 and BB3
If anyone has extras too spare, BM me. Sure we could work something out. Thanks.