T-25 to be released this Saturday!!

Fortunately it won't be long before we can order up a nice fresh liver made from our own reverse-engineered skin cells.

 

Found this
http://spontaneousfunk.blogspot.com/2012/02/rusian-river-torando-25th-anniversary_07.html

the 6 beers:

Finally, Toronado will also be selling an as-of-yet unknown number of bottles to go at the anniversary party on Saturday. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, here are the blend components of the blend from Vinnie, who gave them out at a pre-release party at Toronado:

4% Sonambic (barrel aged for 15 months)
16% Blonde Ale (barrel aged for 8 months)
36% Strong Pale Ale (barrel aged 12 months)
28% Ale Aged with Currants (barrel aged for 8 months)
12% Strong Dark Ale (barrel aged for 12 months)
4% Baltic Porter (barrel aged for 10 months)

 

Sonambic, for those who don't know, is the unblinded base of Beatification. It might be the best unblended lambic I've ever tasted. The other five are all one-offs made just for this beer. The currants sour is like baby Consecration, much lower ABV and very fruit forward. I did tell Vinnie he needs to bottle the Baltic Porter, though. It's absolutely spectacular.

 

Its like collage, but with RR instead of HotD! WOW! You have my interest!

 

I like Collage a lot. T25 is a much better beer, at least at release.

 

It's nothing like Collage. I drainpoured collage, T-25 was a good beer.

 

Note to self. Refer to Stupac2 on whether or not something is a good beer

 

Yes I obviously meant it was objectively good, rather than just IMO.

 

Damn im in denver this week, cant make it. Well (pulls pockets inside out),maybe someone wants to trade me a bottle Bringin back lots of denver goodies. Ba ruffian, ba marble reserve, ba boris etc.

Of course the stuff i have at home in the cellar is always up for trade too.

So has there ever been a blend of all the usual wild -tions? Ike beat, supp, conse, sanct, temp, etc

 

There really hasn't. I asked Vinnie about this, and he said the only blends he's done other than Beatification (3 vintages of Sonambic) have been Desperation (Temptation + Lost Abbey Judgment Day/Mother of All Beers), Toronado 20 and Toronado 25. He should think about a cuvee, though. The blends create a lot of complexity, especially when conditioned together after blending.

 

Deviation is a blend of PH1 Beatification, Sonambic, Sanctification, and Orphan Ale (I'm not really sure what this is).

 

My buddy was talking about that one, we suspect that it's the Blonde Ale in this mixture, which was described as being there to tone things down, the same purpose that Orphan Ale is supposed to have. I now wish I had asked Vinnie about that, because I was definitely curious.

 

Given that Deviation is reddish, it seems to me that the orphan can't be the blonde. I don't know how you get that color if every component is yellow.

 

Got my 2 bottles today, plus 1 on draft. Also, Hop Father and Row 2 Hill 56 on draft! Went to the Tap Room at Whole Food's Coddingtown's Whole Food's Tap Room for Parabola draft, unfiltered DBA cask, and a bottle of Double Double Barrel Ale with some Fish and Chips!

 

Parabola '12 and Cask Conditioned FW DBA unfiltered at Whole Foods Tap Room


Toronado 25th Anniversary @ Russian River in Santa Rosa

 

how busy was russian river? trying to get a cousin of mine to go...but who knows how 'early' he'll get there. more importantly, how fast did it sell out for the days allotment?