Everything Jester King

I has no Jester King down here in Laredo

 

Why screw up a perfectly delicious yummy beer with funk?

 

RU-55 landed in Denton today. Excite.

 

RU-55 is in Round Rock as well

 

These always see light of day when I have my son and can't drive downtown to get them.

Unfortunately Jester King releases don't make it out to the west side of town much at all. Only Bunker Hill HEB gets them and because of that they sell out very quickly.

I liked this beer a lot too! Probably my favorite Sour from them to date.

I'll keep my eyes and ears open in hopes I can snag some.

 

What's the price point on this?

 

What he said

 

Probably on par with all of their sour barrel aged releases, I would guess...

 

I purchased some from Stanleys a few weeks ago and they were in the 15$ range from there. I'm not sure how that would translate to other retailers however.

 

Uberkind price range then

 

$14.99 at Specs

 

What's going on? Austin is finally getting JK before Houston? Outrageous.

 

Gabriel's just got 3 cases each of Wunderkind and Funk Metal. No word on RU-55 yet.

 

New funk and wunderkind? They landed up in dfw too... is this new or held back?

 

Certainly not new in that Funk Metal takes like 8 years to make*

*alright at least a few months.

 

Does anyone know somewhere near 2222 and 620 in Austin to get jester king sours, especially RU-55?

 

Heard Bee Caves Specs got some but that's still a little bit of a drive...

 

Haven't been up there in a while, but have you checked the Spec's on 620 (10601 Ranch Road 620N)? I recall they had a decent JK selection the one time I went. I've also obtained some gems like Uncle John's Stout there.

 

These are "new" batches of Funk Metal and Das Wunderkind. The base beer for Das Wunderkind was brewed in early November and blended with old, sour beer on 11/30/12. The Funk Metal is our second blending of old barrels of soured Black Metal with some barrel fermented 100% brett beer. We've been putting away Black Metal for barrel aging pretty consistently now (about every three months) for the last year, so we had enough mature barrel-aged beer to do a second blending of Funk Metal.

I realize that the multiple blends we're doing and increased frequency with which we have mature sour beer ready for blending is difficult to follow. In order to fix this, we've started putting batch codes and bottling dates on our labels as of this week. I'll blog about more of the details of this next week.

Jeff

 

Drinking RU-55 now...damn it's nice having a cold one ready at my go-to store.

Love this style and this beer. Coming on the heels of some acidic tart bombs this past weekend it's nice have the depth of a Flanders.