Blind BA Stout Tasting Results

I don't beleive you.

You should send me a bottle of each to verify your results.

On a seperate note, I use a very similar ranking system when I do blind tastings, and unanamous favorites are pretty rare. That shows how good the BC Rare must be ( I have never had it)

The only one we have judged was Beamish (over Guiness and Murphy's), and we have done 19 different categories.

 

That sucks about the BA Yeti, I opened one at DLD and it was great. Uninfected it would have placed in your top 3.

 

Did you have a non-taster do the pours (I assume so, but I've seen it not done this way)? I love having it done that way, there is truly no way of knowing which is which then by any of the tasters.

 

Perfect. That's the way to do it! Nice results, I rated [draft] BB Plead on here higher than Rare although I never had them side-by-side for a true "comparison." Would be interesting to do this with said beers you had. Thanks for sharing.

 

Very awesome tasting, thanks for posting the results!

 

I'm not surpised that Rare ranked so highly, especially next to the others you had. Yeti probably would've been in the top 3 if it wasn't a bad bottle.

 

Yup, that seems about right. A BCBS '08 or '09 would have been better than the '11, though, I think those would have a chance against the Rare (while fresh BCBS just doesn't).

 

The night was a bit hazy, so you'll have to forgive me for the lack of details about why, but I distinctly remember preferring the '11 BCBS to all of the older vintages when we did a vertical tasting back around Christmas time.

That said, I don't really think any of them compete with Rare.

 

I'm disappointed that Rare scored so well. I would have loved to read that "Totally obtainable beer X was the best of the bunch."

Sometimes beer lives up to the hype. Rare is freaking amazing.

 

The results make perfect sense to me. That's how I'd rank them. I wish more people would do this so they'd realize how boring BA Old Rasputin is.

 

It really is too bad you got an infected BA Yeti. I was amazed by how good that beer was. The mouthfeel was creamy in the best way possible and I've had the worst hankering for it since then, but I've been worried to pull the trigger on another trade with all the reports of randomly infected bottles.

That said I had Rare for the first time two weeks ago to celebrate my brother's graduation and it truly was the best BA stout I've ever had. I'm glad we had it last or I think all the other beers we opened that night would have shown in a poorer light.

 

given how delicious BA old raspy is (the last place, non-infected beer), i'm guessing that was a very happy tasting.

edit: haha, see i got in after some raspy bashing. i love that beer, but i agree with its placement behind, say, normal BCBS, and the price--ouch. still, very tasty.

 

Sorry about the bad BA Yeti. Nevertheless, thank you for posting those results.