Bruery White Chocolate

Well... the description says USED bourbon barrels. Which means Black Tuesday or Chocolate Rain.

This is a question for the RS forums.

 

Used Bourbon Barrels means they were previously used to store bourbon most likely. I doubt that means they were used to age BT or CR.

 

I would agree with this, but that is just speculation on my end as well.

Although, after the success of King Henry, I'd like to see more barrel aged barelywines (or wheatwines) aged in second use bourbon barrels that previously held a huge Russian Imperial Stout. I've always maintained that what made King Henry special was the fact that it was aged in barrels that held bourbon county stout (and that they left a decent amount of Rare in the barrels when refilling with the base barleywine for King Henry), not that they were Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year barrels.

Cheers!

 

Why are

Why are brewery beers so goddamn expensive? Their cost for ingredients and production can't be that much more than other similar qualities beers/breweries.

 

Because most breweries price stupidly, the Bruery actually takes demand into account. Even then they don't really go whole-hog.

 

The bruery isn't that out of wack. Their regular lineup is actually affordable for 750ml bottles. The price goes up dramatically for anything that's been in a barrel, which to me is understandable as it takes substantially longer to finish and takes up space in the brewery.

 

Beyond which, vanilla beans and cacao nibs aren't cheap either, nor are the malts needed to get to 14% ABV. I'll just point out that no one complains about the price of BA DL variants, all of which are $20 more than this...

 

Actually, there's an offsite facility the Bruery uses for their barrel-aging. A significant amount of the cost for the BA beers goes towards the overhead of that location, I'd assume. It's not as though they're making use of space they're already paying for.

 

I was the first to arrive Saturday morning at The Bruery tasting room, hoping to get an under-the-table growler of Blueberry berliner. Unfortunately, it wasn't even on tap any longer for me to try. No dice, stakem.

 

Alcoholic.

 

To beat the rush! (That's what I told myself anyways.)

 

You can order Black Tuesday from the reserve society now. don't know how long it will be up.

 

First: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/black-tuesday-allocations.32648/ Second, we know exactly how long it'll be up, since the e-mail said it. It'll be up until August 31st.