Best bourbon barrel aged coffee stout

Lol, I wasn't going to make a post correcting the OP (didn't even cross my mind) BUT I did cringe and think "It's my crew and I".

 

It changes by the release, I just picked up release 10 which states per the website a blend of bourbon and whisky barrels. I don't think they have done any strictly bourbon barrels but I could be wrong. They give descriptions of each release on their site.

 

aphrodite ! prairie bomb !!

 

BCBCS
Big Bad Baptist
KBS

Switch them around depends on the day.

 

So I take it you enjoyed the Coffee Break Abduction? ;-)

 

When I had Big Bad Baptist, I definitely got TONS of chocolate & coffee, but I couldn't really taste any bourbon barrel in it. Pretty tasty, but didn't say bourbon barrel coffee stout to me. Maybe it was the batch (#9).

 

Martyn Cornell might say the same about your historical information:

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I'm gonna say this slow.....C...B....S. Shut the front door.

 

Hahaha very much so! I just wish I would have bought more. Thanks for the recommendation... Now I just have to hope that Pipeworks distributes to MI at some point!

 

Well, First nothing you cited actually contradicts what I wrote and you seem to have misinterpreted my intent. My point is that obsession with "freshness" of overhopped beers is ironic for something referred to as an India Pale Ale. I made no claims regarding alcohol content, only that the beer was intended to survive long hauls and extreme temperatures. Interestingly, I did not even mention India as the destination, although you seem to think that I did. And as for Martyn Cornell, compare the OED:

If we change the second clause to "originally thought to help preserve the beer" then Cornell fails to disprove it. I'll let you try to convince the OED that they are wrong.

I have little doubt that Cornell is right about both dates. Yet, they don't change the origin of the name. Further, the assumption that the record is complete for advertising of that period is as preposterous as claims of "first use" from newspaper clippings. What those actually point to is that the term was already in circulation and recognizable. It may be of interest that the first citing is in Australia, but it's in no way dispositive regarding its origin. In fact, Cornell's two pieces are internally contradictory. Parts of what he sets out to dismiss as "myths" he presents as "facts" two years later. Perhaps if he remembered what he wrote from one post to the next, we might have a more complete record. All I see is a bunch of pieces that don't fit into a whole. Three of the "myths" in the first article I was not even aware of.

Interestingly, in 1867, an American advocate of the temperance movement refers to "India pale ale" as "one of the lightest ales". Whatever you may think of modern American IPAs, they cannot be called "the lightest ales" by any stretch of imagination.

 

This is the correct answer.

 

I want to say that bourbon casks and bourbon barrels are the same, just two different words for the container. But I could be wrong. Either way, pretty good coffee stout, though the bourbon was basically absent when I had it. Shit sits on shelves in AZ.

 

Though it hasn't been released yet I'm really looking forward to the Bruery's latest and upcoming Black Tuesday variation, Mocha Wednesday which has Portola Coffeelabs coffee and cocoa nibs added to it!

 

BA Morning Bell

 

Since it hasn't been mentioned here, I'll say it:
Vietnamese Speedway

Sure, it is not barrel-aged, but you wouldn't be able to tell the difference until someone told you. It has all the characteristics of a barrel-aged beer, the alcohol oiliness, the vanilla and all the goodness of the regular SS to boot. Waiting for it to go back on tap....

 

It was actually pretty good. nice and creamy no pun intended. lol

 

No--a pun would be if you started making comments about its head. No bull!
I didn't mean that the gimmick detracted from the beer. I'm just not sure how much it enhanced it. Note that even the brewer says it started out as a joke.

 

India as destination was part of the quotation, which ended with, "But this was not limited to India."

Agreed 100%.

Perhaps I posted a bit hastily. I wholly agree that the term was in wide use at the time. There seems to be considerable evidence that pale ales were shipped to India long before the name was coined, and that the various ales that became known as India pale ale assumed greater and greater hopping levels. I have seen a lot of assertion but little evidence that this was done purely for survival of the beer -- the details of which we understand much better today. Given that the beer was sampled and sold at its destination based on its desirability, one could easily conjecture that the decision to increase hop levels was purely financial: These highly-hopped beers fetch a better price. And given that these high levels of hops were not strictly needed to survive the quick transport all around England once rail travel was common, the popularity of the style suggests flavor was a big part of the equation.

Beer drinkers, by and large, like their hops.

 

I feel the same way about coffee beers. If the coffee flavor is the main reason you like it, drink it fast because it falls off quickest. I drank mine in February and the coffee was still kicking but had made a little room for the more subtle flavors.

 

My vote goes to Café Royale from Williamsburg AleWerks.