Dogfish Head Chicory Stout 2000 Vintage

Depends on price. I'd give it a shot for under $15.

 

if you don't already have a good idea of what oxidation smells and tastes like, this will probably teach you.

if it's not super expensive (which i can't imagine it is, unless the owners have a real misunderstanding about "cellaring beer"...), i think you should buy it since you're obviously curious. who knows what you'll think of it?

 

I say go for it and trade one this way.

 

I'd imagine if you work there and tell the owner you found some 12 year old beer that likely didn't age well, they'll give you a hell of a deal on it. Go for it.

 

No friggin' way...

I doubt DFH CS could survive 1 year, let alone 12.

 

See if the owner will just let you open it for the experience itself. I am the wine order writer at my store and am able to open up pretty much anything I'd like so at least I will know what I'm talking about to customers. I'm sure it depends on your boss though for sure.

 

definitely more likely to be good than chicory stout, but my comment about oxidation still stands (going to taste like sherry/cardboard).

personally, i don't like raison d'etre fresh or aged, but it's the kind of beer that people put away. give it a try, but maybe try to find some fresh to compare.

 

Oh, that changes everything...

 

My vote was yes with Chicory Stout...now that it is Raison d'Etre my vote is hell yes.

 

Try it.
Note the positive flavors.
Sell the other five bottles at a markup.
Become employee of the month.

 

Just curious because I saw this recently, the six packs of Raison D'etre have an oval with "2000" on the front of the package, but it's referring to the year of an award or something. I was just in New York and saw these six packs everywhere with 2000 on the front. Is this what you are seeing at your shop?

 

That's a damn good point, six packs here have the same thing. I just assumed he was looking at actual bottling dates.

 

Preparing for let down in 3...2...

 

Sounds like it is just the award label. If it were a chicory stout I'd imagine it'd be pretty bad. I had a year old bottle that was pretty bland and the chicory was taking on some veggie qualities to it.

Raison from 2000 sounds pretty awesome though...mmmmm

 

You're not the first to make that mistake.. A friend of mine did the same thing a while back.

 

i bet people do it with firestone walker beers. i think sucaba or one of those has 2010 really prominently printed somewhere (on the bottle cap maybe?). i'm not a detail memory person.

 

Bottlecap is correct. Most of their beers have the 2010 World Beer Cup (IIRC) caps on 'em. Can be deceptive, particularly if you don't know where to look for their bottling dates.

Bottling dates are located in black ink on the neck of the bottle FWIW.