Side Project Brewing (2024)

I can agree with that but when the bottle was 4pp @ $40 per, there's no reason I shouldn't have been able to close that trade prior to the public sale announcement

 

Now ask for a plus. Lololol

 

No idea why you couldn’t trade it, but I wouldn’t call STL people shit lords. If anything every release is a race to tank whatever value it may have.

 

Not speaking about StL people in general man so don't take offense. I trade pretty regular with some wonderful and generous people that are locals but let's not kid ourselves here, there is a special brand of shitlord that comes from there as well. Just check the boards on MBC and you will find a few

 

No offense taken. I think I just interpret shitlords in beer as people who do everything to hype and protect the value of a beer, and STL does the opposite anymore by tanking the value of it within 24 hours of a e-mail being sent out, which is why I said I wouldn’t call them shitlords. But could be off with my definition lol.

 

No the hype guys are a whole different type of scum, I'm referring to the max profits guys.

 

When I think shitlords (specifically for beer), I think back to the early days of people buying cases of BC for the sole purpose of flipping/selling, or going to DL day and trying to con someone out of their handjee while drunk to sell off. A shitlord is just shitting on the whole process. Personally, I think anyone that specifically buys the beer for the sole purpose of selling or trading it (with no inclination to actually consume it), just for maxprofits - that person is a shit lord. They are hyping the beer in more than one way, taking beer away from someone else that would actually consume it, and you know that they lie to everyone in line (when that was a thing) about what they will do with it. Fuck every single one of those people.

Yea, everyone trades a beer now and again. But what I described above is a very specific type of person. That same person is still a shitlord by driving the market into the floor. Their only option is to do that, because if they don’t someone else still will. So, they have to sell sell sell as fast as possible. They still profits and if they choose not to they are worse off, since they aren’t working with all the other shitlords to set a market price.

 

Beer secondary is dead. Hard to be shitlord when there’s no max profitz to be made.

 

For the most part, this is true when speaking about selling beer but there are still plenty of people out there trading like shitlords and trying to get everything they can out of someone for a bottle

 

This is the point I was trying to make.

 

DB Reverberant was a really nice beer. Not as viscous as most Side Project, which I credit to Brad from Private Press. Lots of interesting flavors from the barrel treatments. I wasn't a huge fan of the Bourbon Reverberant and thought the Rye was ok, but the DB is a huge step up from both.

 

How prominent is the honey? I know Brad likes to experiment with honey a fair amount but it's usually too sweet for me

 

You definitely get the honey notes as it warms, but not prominent. I think it blends with the barrels nicely. On the Barleywine spectrum of leather ---- dates it leans more towards the sweeter side, but it's still an adult beverage and not too sweet.

 

I think I’m going to start referring to all barrel aged barleywine on a leather to dates continuum from now on

 

This is quite helpful, but a follow-up. From the BWs I have had from SP, I pretty much always get high dates/prune, I don't normally get much leather. Sweetness aside, is this more of the prune/date bomb with little leather influence?

(A sentence only a beer-nerd could write.)

 

Not a prune/date bomb, there is balance.

In contrast, I think Anabasis is more on the leather end of the barleywine spectrum.

Flim flam was in the middle with added chocolate notes.

10-year Barleywine with equal balance of everything.

 

Well this is great news to hear! Now who can I get to give me my first BBT experience for some local WI shelf turds?

 

Much appreciated. I'm curious to see how this would be. I don't get much leather from Anabasis, so I may want to sit this one out, or only get 1 bottle (assuming there would be an option to get more than 1).

I liked brad's BWs at JO, and although there was sweetness, it never gave me the cloyingness that I sometimes get from a pastry stout. Of course, the fact his beers aren't thiccccc probably helps with that. So, the sweetness isn't my concern so much as if it is too much date/prune.

 

Speaking of barleywines, I opened DB Anabasis 10 yr this weekend. Could only get through half of the bottle on the first day and ended up not drinking the rest the next day. My bottle was very hot. Like drinking a glass of bourbon. Anyone else have this experience? Maybe I'm just not enjoying barleywines like I used to?

 

I thought it was phenomenal and definitely on the less sweeter side compared to their other barleywines (Flim Flam, 10 Year, DB Maple in the Wood, etc) which I personally prefer.