Bruery 2015 RS/HS Allocations

Drinking a Hottenroth w/ Peaches (refuse to type Hot Pea, dammit!) Tastes great.

 

Me, too, but it does taste like buttered peas.

Today I had regular Hottenroth, Hottenroth w/peaches, and now I'm on Lazy Susan, which is still as great as it's always been.

edit: I'll throw my two remaining bottles out in the front yard for a couple of weeks. I'm really glad I didn't buy the last bottle that my partner didn't buy.

 

Yo dawg....

 

Diacetyl Reserve.

 

drank a peach hottenroth today and it was great. guess i lucked out, no butter to be found

 

I think I got it this time.... Taco Tuesday! Cilantro, Lime, Al Pastor (or insert your choice of meat). I mean come on... who doesn't like tacos.

 

Think we will be seeing allocations today? Or later in the month?

 

Should be the first Monday of the month (July 6th), same as always.

 

Typically 1st Monday of the month, so the 6th.

 

Oh ha - I didn't actually make the connection to the first Monday. Thanks vets!

 

Cuivre and Loakal Red just popped up on the store! I've been wanting a discount on those two.

 

Sour in the Rye as well is up.

 

Hottenroth w/ Peaches email went out.


Dear Society Member,


Earlier this month, we released a newly bottled version of one of our favorites beers, Hottenroth with Peaches. The beer was tasted, rejoiced over, approved for release and offered to our Society members for their own enjoyment and celebration.

We have subsequently received reports that customers were tasting an unpleasant buttery flavor in the beer. We have investigated those reports. Pediococcus, a souring agent in Hottenroth, is continuing to metabolize the residual sugars in the bottled beer, producing detectable levels of diacetyl in varying degrees. Diacetyl is a normal byproduct of the brewing process, naturally occurring during fermentation in all beers, and typically is metabolized by brewer's yeast before the beer is packaged. Hottenroth also contains Brettanomyces yeast, which typically does a great, although slower, job of metabolizing and "cleaning up" diacetyl. We have found that the Hottenroth with Peaches stored in a room temperature environment does not have diacetyl present, as it has already been metabolized by the Brettanomyces. However, when stored in a cool environment, the Brettanomyces is relatively dormant and may not have had the opportunity to eliminate the diacetyl.

We are confident that any potential diacetyl character will be consumed by the Brettanomyces in a matter of weeks. At this time, we've moved our remaining bottles of Hottenroth with Peaches to ambient room-temperature storage to allow the bottles to continue conditioning and stabilize. At the same time, we are placing a temporary hold on pickups and shipments of this beer.

We don't want for anyone to have a sour taste in their mouth from this bottle of beer. At least not the wrong kind of sour, that is! So, if you did experience an unenjoyable buttery slickness while drinking this beer, we will offer a store credit equal to the total amount paid for your bottles. If you haven't yet opened your bottles, we recommend letting them sit on a room temp shelf for a few weeks before enjoying, but keep them out of sunlight as that can bring on a whole different set of foul flavors! And, if you haven't even picked up your order yet, just sit back, relax and dream of being a happy strain of Brett, chomping away at tasty diacetyl compounds.

 

Seems like a fucking headache to get any sort of refund, as I generally don't keep around bottles of drain pour beer handy.

I ordered 6, opened 4 and 3 were drain god awful.

 

Based on how they handled the Mash & Grind issue recently (and specifically noted that if you didn't still have the bottles you should still contact them and they'll take care of you), I think if you just e-mail the society and let them know that, they'll sort it out.

 

Sending an email with a bottle number (if you know it) is a headache?

That seems like the easiest possible solution, short of just giving everyone a refund which doesn't make sense if they expect the bottles to recover.

 

Just got the email. They are dumping that cola crap on preservation.

 

I'm pretty sure that was always the intention since it's a "Preservation Series" beer.

 

I just figured it might be something else since you can find this bottle on every shelf in LA/OC. And it's not really moving.

 

I think it was actually the first bottle announced for PS