Rumpkin

I love this post.

 

Not Rumpkin but they did announce the next BA Series is being bottled Sept 14th. A Sour Ale made with raspberries and aged in Cab barrels.

 

Haven't heard yet. Last time I was there our waitress mentioned that they wont have a concrete date until shortly beforehand, since they need to let the Gosling barrels do their work. This could have been bull crap, but I ate it up anyway

 

Pretty accurate statement. A lot of folks don't understand that barrel aged beers don't have a timeline like regular beers. After you make it enough times, you can usually get a real solid idea of when your, say, IPA, will be ready, because the fermentation time and dry hopping are very consistent. With barrel aged beers, you could have 5 barrels ready on Aug 1, another 20 not even close until Sep 24th. Can't rush the process either. Also, no 2 barrels will ever taste the same either, so on top of waiting until everything is very close to being ready then you have the task of blending them to get the right flavors. Good reason BA beer costs so much, there is a lot more that goes into it then adding beer, waiting a month, profit.

 

I'll be watching out for this stuff like a hawk. Heard so many good things, very eager to try.

 

That being said, I bet we see it about October again this year ;-)

 

With that in mind, rumor is Bligh's release date somewhere toward Xmas

 

I want some Bligh's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thread jack, lol.

 

And my sources are telling me that Black Tuesday will be released on October 30th.

 

Oh hey-o lets talk about California beer now. Who cares about the Bruery. Having had all their beers, the original Papier and Two Turtle Doves are the only beers worth their original price. The Bruery is the most over-hyped brewery out there.

 

Have yet to try Rumpkin.

With that said, its really only been within the past year or so that I have developed an interest in big beers so any prior sampling probably wouldn't have been one of interest. The moment this hits the shelves this year, however, I will be grabbing at least one bottle for sure. Can't wait.

 

I like the Bruery offerings, enough to join their Reserve Society at least! But, I like wilds/sours quite a lot. With Black Tuesday I think they may have already got the blend down, and are bottling it then letting the bottles sit a bit. Probably giving themselves plenty of time.

I wish Andy would chime in, but I bet its a safe bet to guess October sometime since its a pumpkin beer. I want to say Avery usually does bottling about 1month before release, according to the Beer Pulse updates on bottling vs release updates that I've seen in the past with the sours.

 

@MileHighShooter, way to be the rug that tied this room back together.

 

Sorry, folks... perhaps I don't check BA as often as I should. As it turns out, I spent all day today racking Rumpkin into a bright tank. Unfortunately, it will be a smaller batch than last year... we just couldn't get as many barrels in the right period of time. This year's batch is 22 oak barrels, where last year's was over 30 (I don't have my tasting notes in front of me from last year, so I don't have the exact number). It's not optimal, as we'd love to have 50 or more, but there just aren't many distilleries aging rum on oak on a large scale. At this point, we're just happy to get as many as Gosling's can get us while I keep searching for more distilleries.

As for a release date... we are hoping to get it bottled by third or fourth week of September. We need to make sure that it passes all of our lab protocols first. While we've tested every barrel a couple of times, we want to give the full blend a couple of weeks warm in the tank and keep testing. So we don't have an exact release date just yet, but we want to bottle it as soon as we are confident about its stability.

And it looks like DenverBeerDrinker mentioned the next sour release... that has been moved back a couple of weeks due to lack of tank space. I'm racking that one out of barrels on Sept. 7, but we don't have a bottling date for it just yet. So I'm not sure just yet whether we'll try to get that out before October or not. Such is life in a full scale production brewery... things get shifted around all the time

Andy Parker
Barrel Herder, Avery Brewing Company

 

feel free to release both after all the GABFers leave

/selfishdickpost

 

Please send some more to Texas... I'm on my last 2011!