The Veil Brewing - Richmond

Even their collaborations are DIPAs.

 

I'm just curious if you had any of the other recent TIPAs like the last batches of WWDD or ImdonewithU? I feel like WB isn't quite on par with those but I'll give my last can some time before judging - it was definitely better with a week on it. I probably won't make a Veil trip for a while, but PRBLMS was the other standout TIPA for me last year.

For today, nice to get a count on bottles!
~Henry Ded Mon 11% Quintuple dry-hopped Triple IPA collab with Mikkel Borg Bjergsø from Mikkeller HQ. Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy, Amarillo, Vic Secret, Motueka, and Kohatu. $23+tax/4-pack. 2x 4-packs per person.

~PRBLMS 11% Triple IPA hopped with 50% Mosaic hops, 25% Citra, and 25% Enigma hops.. $17.50+tax/4-pack. 3x 4-packs per person.

~Circle of Wolves 12.8% bourbon barrel aged English Barleywine. $18+tax each. 2x bottles per person limit. (approx. 300 bottles)

 

I did not have those and have gotten my hands on only a couple of their TIPAs but had the WDM from a couple batches ago. It was definitely much better than their first batch last year but still nothing to open my eyes. I just know compared to their DIPAs I have had that this particular TIPA tasted more along the lines of what I get in DIPAs from Triple Crossing and they are consistently my favorite in the area.

 

Everything still available for today (Fri., Jan 5th)
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~Henry Ded Mon 11% Quintuple dry-hopped Triple IPA collab with Mikkel Borg Bjergsø from Mikkeller HQ. Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy, Amarillo, Vic Secret, Motueka, and Kohatu. $23+tax/4-pack.
2x 4-packs per person

~PRBLMS 11% Triple IPA hopped with 50% Mosaic hops, 25% Citra, and 25% Enigma hops.. $17.50+tax/4-pack.
3x 4-packs per person

~Circle of Wolves 12.8% bourbon barrel aged English Barleywine. $18+tax each.
1x bottle per person. (approx. 15 bottles)

 

Spoiler alert pending Tomcat's weekly detailed post, it looks we have a 3 bottle release set for this week including the return of magnums.

 

Do most people care more about a regular can releases or are people going to secretly come out of the woodwork for this? To be honest, although some of the funk sounds good, I wouldnt be overly drawn without pallbearer.

 

It’s a workday for most people, I suspect a decent line but bottles remaining available throughout the day (excluding the magnums).

The funky beers sound fantastic and I love a stout aged for extended time in barrels, I feel most breweries rush the process.

 

I think this will draw a pretty decent crowd, probably larger than most can releases.

 

1/9 Releases
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Make You Feel is a 5.9% farmhouse inspired ale brewed with barley, wheat, spelt, buckwheat, and European hops. We then pump the wort into the koelschip at 74F while pitching two expressive saison yeast strains and allow to open ferment for 48 hours. After 48 hours, we drained the koelschip into freshly dumped French oak Pinot Noir barrels from a high end Napa producer. We then inoculated with our house culture, and brought the barrels over to our Funkhaüst to finish fermentation and condition for many months. After 15 months in the barrels, we blended the barrels together, bottled the blend, and let bottle conditioned for 3 months. This is one of the most beautifully refined beers we’ve ever produced. Elegant aromatics of freshly poured Pinot, delicate musty oak/cellar, balanced acidity, subtle honey, hay, perfect carbonation level, Chardonnay mouthfeel, and overall extremely vinous. We are absolutely in love with this one!
- Approx 1,350x 750ml bottles of Make You Feel available. $20+tax each. 4x bottles per person
- We will have approx 10x 1.5L magnums of Make You Feel available. $60+tax each

Escape: Some of you may remember a pilot batch of Escape we made a few months after we opened back in the fall of 2016. That batch was experimental and was meant to be a shorter term, fresher beer. We scaled that concept up and allowed for an extended maturation period in the barrels and the results were phenomenal! Escape clocks in at 5.8%. We start Escape by brewing a batch of Master Shredder(our house IPA) the same way we would as if it was going to be canned fresh. Instead of transferring the wort into a stainless steel fermenter with our house ale yeast, we take the batch of wort and transferred it into freshly dumped red wine French oak barrels. We then pitched a mixture of a few Brett strains and ferment the wort with 100% mixed Brett strains in primary, then inoculate with our house culture and condition for 12 months. After 12 months, we pulled Escape from the barrels and dry-hopped it with the same varietals/quantities as Master Shredder and conditioned on the dry-hops for approximately a week. We then pulled Escape off of dry-hops and bottle conditioned it for an additional 2 months in bottles. Pithy, juicy grapefruit flesh, tangerine peel, Riesling-like body, beautifully balanced tartness, bright white wine grape skin, subtle oak, with a hint of sticky, dank hop aromatics. Escape is defo a production staff favorite!
- Approx 1,500x 750ml bottles of Escape available. $20+tax each. 4x bottles per person.
- We will have approx 15x 1.5L magnums of Escape available. $60+tax each.

No More Sleep is a brand new offering from our Funkhaüst. Clocking in at 5.9%, No More Sleep is a dark farmhouse inspired ale barrel fermented with mixed cultures in 80% spent bourbon barrels that previously held Sleeping Forever and 20% new oak. No More Sleep spent just over 6 months in these barrels fermenting and conditioning, then we blended all of the barrels together and bottle conditioned them for another 2 months. Powdery dark cocoa, oak tannins, bright tart cherry acidity, leathery, effervescent, and refreshingly dry. We hope to make this a once a year beer, so don’t expect to see this one for another 12-18 months.
- Approx 1,000x 750ml bottles of No More Sleep available. $20+tax each. 3x bottles per person
- We will have approx 23x 1.5L magnums of No More Sleep available. $60+tax each

**CUSTOMERS ARE LIMITED TO 1X MAGNUM PER PERSON. NOT PER BRAND. DUE TO THEIR LIMITED AVAILABILITY, YOU MAY NOT PURCHASE MULTIPLE MAGNUMS PER PERSON. ONE MAGNUM TOTAL PER PERSON, NOT PER BRAND.**

Pallbearer is a new, very special imperial stout. We specifically designed Pallbearer to be the thickest, richest, most complex imperial stout we could possibly create. We used the most malt we’ve ever brewed with for one beer, with the most complex blend of speciality/dark malts, and threw every trick in the book at it to produce the most viscous wort possible. We also designed this beer to spend an extended period of time in Kentucky Bourbon barrels. Pallbearer ended up spending 15 months in barrels. Clocking in at 13.5%, Pallbearer is pack with notes of brownie batter, Hershey Syrup, mocha latte, low proof bourbon, black strap molasses, brown sugar cubes, and maple candies.
Approx 1500-1600x 500ml bottles available. $17+tax each. 4x bottles per person

**OTHER THAN A LIMITED QUANTITY OF LEFTOVER PRBLMS CANS, WE WILL NOT BE RELEASING ANY OTHER CANS THIS WEEK.**

It will likely draw more interest than normal but I would hesitate to line up super early with being scared of FOMO. With limits, package size and pricepoint along with a total of 4 bottles being released I don't see the majority of people maxing out. Of course there will be a lot who do but save the wait, show up a few hours after open (or stroll up shortly after open), wait for the line to die down, grab draft pours to see if in fact the product is worth the cost and what you can see yourself leaving with. Even with the novel of a description accompanying each beer I have a hard time paying that much for multiples of sub 6% beer unless it just blows my mind and $17 for 500ml is equally out of my realm of want multiples.

 

Yeah I'm pretty excited about these releases because I think it will open up a lot of variety in the Veil's lineup, but I'm definitely planning on trying them on draft before buying. I think we should be seeing a lot more beers like this from them in the future, so I don't see any reason to scramble and buy as many bottles as possible. I am hopeful though, the two lighter beers sound pretty good to me.

 

$60 magnums? lol

 

The pricing for these is way out of whack, If Arthur/Anna is 10$ and 100 ft north/triangular nature is 13$ what makes these worth 20$?

 

Fair point but I think the difference is time in barrels. I'm guessing none of the beers you mentioned spend 12-15 months in barrels.

 

Pallbearer's price seems almost fair, considering it's in line with BA SF for instance. I'd think twice about any of the others even if I saw them on a shelf at my local shop. I get that it takes a lot of time and effort to make these funky brews, but $20/500ml bottle is steep. The descriptions make them sound very good but I'd either want to try them or hear from someone I trust it was worth the cost before buying them.

 

I think funky are in 750 mls. I would agree that $20 for 500 mls is a little steep

 

Anyone seen any additional info about the Jester King tap remix this weekend? I thought they said it was going to be the weekend of the 13th, but haven't seen anything in weeks.

 

You are right, I misread that - that definitely makes the prices better in my mind. Still pricey but more in line with what I'd expect.

I literally just got an email - it is on, looks like noon-10PM. 13 JK beers. They'll be pouring inside and outside.

 

The Veil updated details yesterday afternoon...
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Good evening y’all! We would like to announce the beers being poured for our Tasting Room Remix with Jester King Brewery. There will be a mix of bottle pours and draft pours from both The Veil and Jester King. Here’s what will be available:

JESTER KING:
~Black Metal-10.4%-Farmhouse Imperial Stout
~Le Petit Prince-2.8%-Table Beer
~SPON 17 3YB- 5.8%-Gueuze-inspired blend of spontaneously fermented beer
~Fen Tao-5.9%-Barrel-aged beer refermented with TX peaches
~Birra di Sangiovese-7.4%-Barrel-aged beer refermented with TX Sangiovese grapes
~Grim Harvest-5.8%-Farmhouse beer made with second-use blackberries
~Atrial Rubicite***-5.2%-Barrel-aged beer refermented with raspberries
~Örter i Mörker-7.9%-Inspired by Danish Smørrebrød; brewed with woodear mushrooms
~Song of Binding-6.9%-Foudre fermented farmhouse ale aged in Pinot Noir barrels
~Figlet- 6.2%-Farmhouse ale fermented with Texas figs smoked at Franklin's BBQ
~Biere de Miel-5.8%-Farmhouse ale brewed with TX wildflower honey
~El Cedro-8%-Hoppy Farmhouse beer aged on Spanish Cedar
~Nocturn Chrysalis***-5.9%-Ale refermented in oak barrels w/ blackberries

THE VEIL:
~Henry Ded Mon-11%-Mikkeller HQ collab/Quintuple Dry-hopped Triple IPA w/ Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy, Amarillo, Vic Secret, Motueka, and Kohatu
~Bourbon BA Circle of Wolves-12.8%-Barrel-aged English Barleywine
~PRBLMS-11%-Triple IPA w/ Mosaic, Citra, and Enigma
~Make You Feel***-5.9%-open fermented farmhouse inspired ale aged in Pinot noir barrels
~Escape-5.8%-100% Brett fermented Farmhouse India pale ale conditioned in wine barrels
~No More Sleep-5.9%-Dark farmhouse inspired ale aged in oak barrels
~Pallbearer-13.5%-Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels
~We Ded Mon-11%-Triple IPA with 100% Citra
~Master Master Shredder Shredder-5.5%-Double dry-hopped version of our house IPA Master Shredder
~Never Never Again Again-5.1%- Double raspberry Gose
~Coalesce-5.5%-Czech style Pilsner
~IdontEVEReverwanttoBU-9.3%-Double dry-hopped version of our 9.3% 0 IBU DIPA IdonteverwanttoBU. Hopped with Citra and Mosaic
~Sleeping Forever-12%-Anniversary Imperial Stout
~2016 vintage Bourbon BA Sleeping Forever-13.2%-Anniversary Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels for 12 months
~@_natureboi-8.5%- Double IPA w/ Citra and New Zealand Motueka
~Dreamless-4%-Unspiced Witbier

Almost all of these offerings will be available in 6oz and 12oz pours with the exception of any beer with *** after it. Those beers are limited to 3oz pours due to their limited availability. This is not a ticketed event, but we will be selling 3oz, 6oz, and 12oz drink tickets. All drink tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE, and only valid the day of the event(Saturday 1/13/18). There will be champagne available for purchase in 4oz pours also. Beers will be pouring inside and outside.

Tyler Trainum from Autumn Olive Farms and Adam Hall from Saison will be serving up the food from 12-6pm and Continental Divide RVA will be serving food from 6-9pm.

BillyCrystalFingers and Dj Chenchilla will be spinning from 12-6pm.

We will be open from 12-10pm, but the event will be from 12pm until sell out. We will have beer pouring from 12-10pm, but once the Jester King beers kick, they are gone. Please make sure to get there early if you want to have the best opportunity to try as many Jester King beers as possible. ALL of the Jester King beers are limited in availability while the beers marked *** are extremely limited.

 

Any idea what to expect in terms of crowds for the JK event? I've only been on regular release days.

 

with no bottles released (for this event) i doubt it’s insane