Ivan the Terrible 2013 vintage

ive got a bottle of 2012 terrible in the cellar. reeaaaalllly wanna drink it soon

 

I've only seen this at the Seattle International Beer Festival. Man is it delicious...

 

It's always been released in single 750mL bottles.

I've had several two year old bottles, and while they were good, they weren't much of an improvement over fresh (since it was a pretty smooth RIS to begin with). That said, the last one I drank was a 2010, so maybe the increase in abv. has changed things.

 

Big Sky doesn't seem to be too worried in general about drinking beer in Montana

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/big-sky-brewing-bill-advocation.78571/#post-1155637

 

That shit makes no sense at all, what the fuck

 

Wow, never heard of Big Sky's involvement in that bill...that is a shame. There are a lot of great breweries in Montana, it would have killed off all of the small ones. Even my small little town has a good brewery, it would have surely been put under by that bill. Apparently Big Sky cares more about having all the business instead of promoting their craft. That's okay, there's plenty of other great breweries in the same town to choose from.

 

I thought Ivan was good. I had one fresh and another bottle with about 6 months on it. It's a notch below Parabola, BCBS, BBPt5th, etc. though.

 

I should have taken notes, but I think aged was better. Looking at my review of the fresh bottle, I noted that carbonation was a tad bit sharp.

 

Thanks