Bruery 2016 RS/HS Allocations

Had some friends over last night for a mini "6 Days of Christmas" tasting. Some thoughts heading into the 12 Days sale...

3 French Hens - I never had this beer fresh but recently acquired a couple in a sale. It is damn good, and if available I plan to buy more. I do not like sours, and this has a bit of funk (possibly more from natural barrel aging than yeast) nonetheless I still loved it. Super mellow and very flavorful.

4 Calling Birds - I had this on tap when fresh and later acquired this bottle. Alcohol-wise it's mellowed a lot according to my notes. However, it still has a ridiculous amount of spicing - not unpleasant, but very forward and probably not for everyone.

5 Golden Rings - I loved this beer when it was fresh and it's still delicious today. Really mellow and tons of juicy fruit. Spicing is more forward than I recall, but not too bad (just a fraction of 4 Calling Birds).

No 6 Geese this time.

7 Swans-a-Swimming - I had a bottle last year that turned out to have some light infection. I hated it, but my wife who likes sours loved it. This bottle was not infected and was very decent. It's just a basic quad, so while tasty I don't know that it brings much to the table that you can't get from other quads, and I'm not sure that it's changed much with age, but it's a good beer.

8 Maids-a-Milking - Didn't seem to have changed much since last year.

9 Ladies Dancing - I don't care for coffee in beer, so this one is disappointing for me - the coffee is the most forward flavor in my opinion. I'll say though, this was my second bottle this year, and I was surprised when a couple of my friends asked if it had peppers in it! I hadn't thought about it before, but once they said it I did kind of get a bit of pepper heat on the finish. Obviously there aren't actually peppers in it, so I wonder if it was a light alcohol heat, or acidity from the coffee, or a spicing they don't mention on the bottle... Anyway, just something to consider.


Real question: after 12 Drummers, if they did an eight beer series for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a menorah to display the bottles on (and candles to place in the empty bottle necks), would that we awesome or insensitive?

 

Hi,
Opened a bottle last night that was infected. I have two bottles picked up at the same time, so their etched info may be very similar. I'll be emailing the above email today.
Thanks.

 

Chronology & oude tart?

*nevermind, not oude tart, the post says it's a Christmas beer

 

I'm going to say 4 Calling Birds.

 

If you zoom into the Twitter picture it looks like 2 Turtle Doves and Chronology 18.

 

i see 3 labels, is that oude tart as well?

 

If they sell 2 Turtle Doves, I'll be EXTREMELY surprised.

 

In allocations I see wee heavy chron 18 and melange 3 (I'm preservation until the end of the year)

 

JEEEZUS that's expensive.

 

At the low low price of $47.49

 

and it's gone. unless they pulled it back.

EDIT: no, i'm just dumb.

 

39 for HS, I still got one, like a sucker.

 

Trois Poules Francais cheaper than 3FH? Ok then....

 

No, I just realized that it says none available to me because i grabbed one. Duh.

 

Exciting to see these come up, but I have some of each so I'll hold out for cooler shit.

 

Yikes..... pass at that price.