CO Barrel Aged Stouts

Non-Colorado beer, but anyone heard about when Parabola will drop onto shelves here in the Denver/Boulder area?

 

Should be next week I believe.

 

Will you guys just put it on the shelf or alert people via your newsletter?

 

I haven't decided yet, depends on what we get but shoot me a message next week and I can at least let you know if we have it.

 

Has it shown up on draft anywhere? I believe it generally shows up slightly before the bottles drop.

 

One that sometimes gets forgotten (including by me) is Dry Dock's Double Vanilla. You can get a 32oz Crowler of it at North Dock for $16. That's cheaper than a bottle, and it's damn good.

 

Medianoche is so good. The coconut and coffee maple were outstanding.

 

Has Parabola hit yet in Denver?

 

No, but I'm all over Chocolate Yeti.

 

Liquor Mart in Boulder had some last week

 

So it's a little late, but I just drank my AC Golden Ctayt (batch 3), I think it was the same batch they won at GABF with last year, and released a month or two after.

That's a damn good beer. As others have mentioned, it's a touch thin. But the flavors are excellent, well balanced, and delicious. While it does have the "Russian" flavors of licorice and dark fruit, they are pretty subdued. I was getting a lot of oak, bourbon, cocoa powder, and some mild coffee flavors. It was bold but not aggressive.

And here's where we get into weird territory. I opened the bottle on Saturday, but after we had all drank a bunch. Sadly we couldn't finish the Ctayt. SO I put some tight-fitting plastic wrap on the bottle and put it on the counter. Yesterday (2 days later!) I was about to dump it down the drain, but I decided to give it a taste just for kicks. To my surprise it was drinking great and STILL had a bit of carbonation left. I was blown away, I've had beers fall off 4 hours after the bottle was opened. I think when we opened it, it had a bit much carbonation, but not excessive. This beer would probably age well for years.

 

How long do you think Medianoche will be on tap? Is that generally just available at the brewery?

 

It's only a once per year release for now. When this batch is gone, it will be another ~10 months until it's back up. In the future it may become a 2x per year release.

As of this weekend, they had 4-5 barrels left of their original 14. Their next release (I'm guessing in a few weeks?) is likely to finish off the rest of this batch.

 

Gonna be a long 10 months (but worth it)...

 

I've had the regular and the coffee and enjoyed both; very smooth for 14.2%...hoping I can try some Coconut at the next release before it's all gone.

 

As others have mentioned, regular Medianoche is still available at the taproom and it should last another week or two, but all the variants from this weekend's release have kicked. We are currently working on the last batch of variants, which won't be ready for another 3-4 weeks, but that will be it for Medianoche until next spring. We'll announce the release as soon as the variants are ready and we have a date figured out.

And as @TychoNDC mentioned, we are tentatively planning to brew it again sometime this fall to allow for 2 different releases each year, one in March/April and another in September/October. But we'll know more later this summer as to whether or not that's a possibility.

 

Thank you for the information. I'm planning to visit end of this month and I hope it's still on.

 

Has anyone opened a snowed in lately? Just curious I have one left that keeps staring at me when I open the fridge. Thx

 

I can verify this. Picked up some FG BB Stout and Odd13 Hop Troll today. Great local selection at B Town.

 

What store?