Infected Barrel Aged Yeti

You can unwatch it

I deliberately quoted text from months ago. Bonus points it you find this sentence.

 

You still get Alerts for unwatched threads.

Also, do I get bonus points?

 

Lol, I'm not "watching" it, but I still get an alert every time I get quoted.

 

Wish you woulda recorked that one and sent it my way. Loved that chew spit. Finished a whole bottle to myself.

 

I'm hoping baybassboy will jump in here with a bottle number, he shared his bottle with me and ehammond1. I didn't pick up any taste of infection.

 

1.732i points to stupac2, Mark.

Also, didn't know that.

 

Haha, damn! You got me! Well played, sir, well played...

 

Coincidentally, I had my first infected beer 2 weeks ago. It wasn't BA Yeti, but rather Great Divides Titan IPA. It was a single 12oz bottle in a mixed sixer so I didn't complain. But it tasted like salty lemon juice with apple hints. No pine, no bitterness, not an IPA taste at all. Coincidence? Maybe, but I'm not going to say it is the Breweries fault for my isolated incedent.

 

Bought half of the one case to come to my town -- opened one immediately and it was phenomenal, opened one two weeks ago and was at least as good. I guess I just got lucky.

 

My philosophy on this is simple: if my beer is infected I will review it as such.

If my bottle is an isolated incident, then my review will be an isolated review that barely budges the score and will eventually get lost in a sea of non-infected beer reviews. If it's widespread there will be widespread reviews of infected beers.

And if for some reason the brewery replaces my beer, I will review the replacement. Seems simple enough to me.

 

Respectfully, why not? Did any action you took make the beer infected? Did any action taken by anyone other than the brewery make the beer infected?

If you identified the beer as infected, all fault lies with the brewery. They may be a world class brewery and this may be an isolated incident, but it is still their fault.

 

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Because, I feel like even though it is their fault for this one particular bottle of Titan IPA, you cant expect them to catch every infected batch before it goes out. Even if you check every batch of every brew something is bound to go wrong somewhere on accident. Nobody is perfect. However, this doesn't seem to be the case with the BA Yeti, that was a complete fuck up across the board.

 

Usually infections are wider than one bottle. And one review won't make a difference.

 

Cracked bottle #0566 last night to celebrate a lease signing... And unfortunately it wasn't one to celebrate with Definantly infected, sour acidic cherry with a small underlying roastyness...

 

if infection were magical, this would be true. while no one is perfect, QC departments can check batches before they go in bottles, and sanitizing bottles is so easy that no serious brewery should ever have a single infected beer due to dirty bottles (even if they're so small that they don't have a "QC department").

incidentally, i think your IPA was just old and you didn't like the flavors, but if it was infected, it's due to brewery negligence--and not "everyone makes mistakes," but severe negligence (like a restaurant bussing a table, and then plating someone's meal on top of the last guy's bones, steak juice, and spent napkins).

 

baybassboy's bottle was not infected, though he mentioned that bottles with #s very, very close to his (like 2 away, if I remember correctly) did have serious infection.

 

Twice the price, huh? I only quoted you because I just saw a bottle of the BA Yeti on a shelf for $60. What a gamble for those who don't know better.

 

I had bottle 178. Was fine.

Cheers!

 

- $60 is already more than twice the price.

non-infected BA Yeti is pretty divine. perhaps not worth twice the price (although depends on who you ask), but definitely worth more than a lot of BA beers that seem to fetch that $25 price tag quite easily. there are plenty of mediocre at best beers selling for $25+ and are gone from shelves almost immediately...and few hold a candle to the tastiness of BA Yeti.