The Bruery (2025)

Excited by both the cuvee and the stave & spice. Keylime and lemon meringue treatments have generally been pretty successful. And I’m hoping Stave is close to the cuvee from 2018(?).

Had a coffee is life tonight and was very impressed. The barrel aging on the base provides a nice light bottom for the coffee to sit on top of. No bitterness.

 

I agree, the "Last Slice" from I believe 2018, was one of my favorite Bruery beers.

 

Opened a 2018 BT Reserve today. So good.

These BTs and BT Reserves are the only things that age as well as Bourbon County, and they probably age better when you get closer to 10+ years.

The ABV is so well hidden. Great nose and palate. Mouthfeel is just a bit thin, as typical of BT, but really not a negative.

I had a 2015 BT Reserve a few years ago that was just a touch better than this, but these are two of the best bottle I have opened in the past several years.

 

I was hoping to see Blis in the sale. I went ahead and placed an order since I had reached the free shipping limit. Looking forward to trying crumbfather and Tuesday morning. I also grabbed another Midnight Frost, I really enjoyed that one at the Tap room.

 

They had to add them after I placed my order. Do they typically add beers like this during the sale? I'm wondering if I should wait and see if they add anything for black friday/cyber Monday.

 

Not during the normal monthly archive sales (it it is what it is) but the holiday sales usually have at least 2 phases.. not sure if there will be a 3rd..

 

Thanks for info, it'll come in handy for next year.

 

I am looking to join the Reserve Society, included beers seem like a good lineup for the price and immediate access to society perks is a nice plus. I was curious if there is some kind of private online shop for society members to buy different bottles? Or is the online shop that I’m looking at right now as a non-member all the same bottles that members see? I do see some things marked as society exclusive, just curious if members see even more available items.

 

I joined reserve recently. The beer listed in online store didn't change, but before I joined there was a number of bottles that were marked "members only" and I could not purchase those options. Once I joined all of those bottles are now available for me to purchase.

 

Looks like they've added some new options to the sale.

 

Same here, that beer is one of the reasons I joined.

 

Man, same thing happened to me but I was able to intercept it before it left back to the Bruery.

I showed up to pick it up at the store and they couldn’t find it anywhere and they said maybe it’s at the hub which is closed to customers.

I went to the hub anyway and the dude was actually pretty nice and searched everywhere for the package. Finally he got on the radio and tracked it down on a truck on its way out. He actually had the guy turn around and when he got there we dug through the truck and found it.

It was hand written in sharpie ”Return to Sender” and circled aggressively like 5 times! He had no idea why that happened. In my mind it was some anti alcohol Karen who wanted to fuck with my beer!