Bruery 2015 RS/HS Allocations

Nice to meet you in person. Keep up the chatter on the OC/SD front. Always appreciated.

 

Wow, I'll throw it out there. Bottle Logic stole the show hands down. There were dozens of great pours available however that Buffalo Trace BA stout was fantastic. Hope to see more strong offerings from them in the future. Well done.

 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Definitely best stout of the fest. Sours, fruit salad was my #1, I got 6 pours. Really positively surprised by the kolsch (grapefruit) from three weavers, sooo much better that grapefruit sculpin....even though different style. Pistachio bt was smoother than 2012 nitro, very nice.

 

Bummed I missed it. Any epic line cutting?
How was the grub?

 

Still can't believe TRB line was so long even before it tapped with so many good offerings poured.
Loved how many people acknowledgedy green ducks o'kessler shirt. The event was amazing. Literally had multiple pours of almost everything you wanted. Lines were super smooth

 

BT reserve?

 

BT reserve was on point...and Im not that big a fan of BT in General haha. Sat at 19.9 percent i believe. Fruit stand(God I hope they bottle this) and fundamental observation(vanilla bean BA stout in heaven hill/buffalo trace blended barrels) stole the show for underdogs.

Great food, great people and a ton of fun, and the cold pressed coffee was a damn life saver haha

 

Sounds like I screwed up. Totally missed this one, hopefully its something they'll bottle.

 

Lines moved so quick you really didn't need to cut in line. The bruery tap truck, with 40 people deep would clear out within 5 minutes. They were machines with the pours!

Rare Barrel's line moved a bit slow cause their tap kept malfunctioning, but once they poured everything into a pitcher and poured from the pitcher the line moved super quick. Went from barely moving for 15 minutes, to clearing out 50+ people in 10 minutes

 

I completely forgot about them, when I went back around at 2:30 or so they were completely tapped out. Oh well.

 

kevins fuzzy peaches was #1 but fruit salad was #2 fosho!

 

Anyone have an extra copper mug they want to part with?

 

Had a good time. Drank lots of great beers. Met lots of cool people. Would do again. A+++++

 

where was everyone getting fruit stand from? casey wasnt there that i saw, was someone walking around pouring bottles. Maybe you guys mean fruit salad but nonetheless color me confused lol

 

Yeah, it was Fruit Salad.. Only bottle I saw getting walled around was Flander's Giant

 

For me it was Kevin's Fuzzy Peaches, Fruit Salad and BT reserve that stole the show.

The Fundamental from BL was great but if you had it during anniversary week, it was a lot better before they blended the barrels. Its also my understand that, that was the last of those beers so they blended them to get rid of it.

It was also great to meet everyone in person and enjoy some great beer! This is always one of the best events of the year!

 

I liked the BT Reserve booth (although I was late to the show to get a pour of that), but the fact that they had 2 lines and yet, nobody used the 2nd line...like..ever. Sure there were only 2 offerings above that guy's head but he poured everything. Wait in that long ass almost 3 whole minute line, or walk to the other guy that kept asking us (since we lurked around there chatting) if we wanted a beer and was also curious why nobody was in his line.

Edit: And I guess I need to update my avatar since I grew out my hair longer. =P

 

Oh and not sure if anyone else nerded out a little but exchanged some pleasant conversation with Ian Hazzikostas for a bit. Yes I was/am a video game nerd as time permits and did use to play a bit of WoW a while ago (on and off for like 5yrs actually), so when I see the lead encounter designer just standing in line a couple ppl behind...yeah...I got nerd goosebumps.

 

Great event. The real win of the day for me was blending in some of that Mostra coconut cold brew into BT w/ coconut and vanilla. My gahd.

 

My girl did the BA graham cracker cold brew into the grey monday.