Backpocket Brewing: Barrel-Aged Old Bufflehead Barleywine

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  1. BottleCaps80

    BottleCaps80 Initiate (0) Jan 12, 2013 Iowa

    Backpocket will be releasing Old Bufflehead, a barrel-aged English style Barleywine, for their 2nd Anniversary party tomorrow, 8/27. It's sitting in barrels for the past six months. It will also be bottled in bombers, but there isn't a timetable for that release yet.

    Also at their 2nd Anniversary party will be a new Citra Wheat, as well as the return of their First Anniversary Stout.
     
    #1 BottleCaps80, Aug 26, 2014
  2. KendallKid

    KendallKid Initiate (0) Jun 9, 2014 New York

    Whoa that bomber sounds amazing ISO whenever it hits !!
     
    #2 KendallKid, Aug 26, 2014
  3. JediMatt

    JediMatt Zealot (549) Jun 18, 2010 Iowa

    That all sounds great! I still haven't seen Hawktoberfest around DSM, but I'd like to try that too.
     
    #3 JediMatt, Aug 26, 2014
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  4. CLaBarre

    CLaBarre Initiate (0) Feb 22, 2013 Iowa

    Here's to hoping you can actually taste a little barrel in this one. Was disappointed in their first ba attempt
     
    #4 CLaBarre, Aug 26, 2014
  5. dragonaut

    dragonaut Initiate (0) May 29, 2005 Iowa

    to be fair, it was a blended beer. Not everyone's first barrel-aging attempt is going to be world-class. It's hard to get a barrel program up to the standards of Goose Island or Firestone Walker. It's all about blending.

    Eric from Rock Bottom makes great barrel aged beer in Iowa, so has Toppling Goliath, but I'm struggling to think of others who have really rocked out in this category from our home state just yet.
     
    #5 dragonaut, Aug 26, 2014
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  6. B-Nut-GoBlue

    B-Nut-GoBlue Pundit (912) Apr 22, 2014 Iowa
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    Good on Backpocket. Looking forward to trying this guy. Maybe before/after Fry-fest this Friday?!
     
    #6 B-Nut-GoBlue, Aug 27, 2014
  7. Roudy1

    Roudy1 Initiate (0) Sep 29, 2012 Iowa

    The First Anniversary was so much better on tap than it was when it finally hot bottles. Personally, I thought it was done pretty well.
     
    #7 Roudy1, Aug 27, 2014
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