Funk Metal... be warned.

This is our experience with Funk Metal if properly chilled.

Jeff Stuffings
Jester King

 

We've found each of our barrel aged, wild beers to be somewhat of it's own animal in terms of dialing in the CO2 during bottle conditioning. We recently bottled our third batch of Boxer's Revenge for example. Although it's only three weeks old in the bottle, we're cautiously optimistic it's conditioning near perfectly. The first two releases were of course a little soft in terms of CO2. On the other hand, we've found our first bottling of Funk Metal to do more in terms of CO2 development with less priming sugar. Finally, our upcoming first release of RU-55 Barrel-Aged Sour Red Ale is a little soft in terms of CO2 (tested at 2.1 volumes). We're reasonably confident our next bottling will finish closer to 3.0 volumes.

Jeff Stuffings
Jester King

 

We opened WBDPP and Funk Metal with zero drama last night.

 

I had a couple pints off of a cask of the RU-55 at the Petrol anniversary party here in Houston, an obviously low-carbed choice, the flavors worked with the flatness though IMO. If nothing else, it was a way to truly taste the flavors of the beer. I am intrigued to see how this livens up with a higher carbonation level.

 

How bad ass is it of the JK guys to chime into these threads whether their getting shit or praise with a detailed brewers description. Pretty cool!

 

I agree, though I'm sure they value both sides...

 

Oh yes. I think the threads are 99% made up of fair praise or criticism. Mainly we keep up with them to be a source of facts about our beer, ingredients, process, etc.

Jeff Stuffings
Jester King

 

I'll open my bottle of FM at New Year's and report back. Really looking forward to it.

Cheer!

 

Here's some valuable info. I love the shit out of boxers revenge and can't wait for it to be year round.

 

It is also helpful to have y'all nearby to correct us when we are off, or just speculating/assuming. It's nice knowing the why behind the what.

 

Pretty fun king awesome!

 

I believe it was their Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout you're referring to, not Chocolate Ale.

http://www.boulevard.com/beers/smok.../imperial-stout/imperial-stout-annoucement-2/

 

I opened one of those at the La Muerta release. It wasn't right, but it was drinkable. Best part was that I sent Boulevard a picture of the bottle with the bottle number and they mailed me a check for $13.99.

 

The Chocolate had a recall as well. I remember the guy at Specs out by my work pulling them to send back.

 

I remember them having a recall on the Chocolate Ale too. My local store was told to send back their case

 

Interesting, I had forgotten about that one.

http://siouxcityjournal.com/blogs/b...cle_f792abb6-33a1-59b3-ad41-ebc34e261574.html

 

That one too, thankfully not all of that years release was infected, and lucky for OK, we only got the good stuff!

 

it amazes me how all these releases are so infected.

 

lol

 

Tried this at the brewery this past Saturday and loved it. Much more sour than I was expecting it to be, and I felt the level of carbonation lent itself well to this particular beer. Grabbed some bottles to bring home from Stanley's that I'm excited to pop open.