'16 Bourbon County Lineup

Sounds like a good lineup to me, I'll be happy if i get a chance at a maple at all, but I seriously doubt it

 

They may just not have enough scotch barrels for a nation wide release as a variant. Who knows though. I also agree they need to leave out the god damn peppers on everything.

 

After all the bs, I'm not even remotely interested. And I'm still waiting for a check.

 

If Maple is less sweet and features a slightly more prominent pepper taste than Prop '15 I'm all in.

 

A little nervous they are doing a similar variant to prop 15 again...I had prop 15 on black Friday and the pepper taste was barley there, it was an overly sweet mess...so hopefully they learned?
You almost need coffee with maple to really balance the sweetness...bourbon count is already sweet as is...

 

Exactly.

 

Last years prop barley had a pepper flavor, was extremely sweet and honestly not good...I would like to think they can adjust last year but with the turnover they have in brewers I don't want to hold my breathe

 

Call me biased (I work for AB), but the Coffee variant, when it was fresh on draught, was amazing last year. My favorite of the whole lineup.

 

I'd love it if we could get the thread title fixed so I don't have to look at the wrong spelling for the next 6 months or so whenever we talk about the variants.

For some reason I'm still holding out hope they will have something else in store for Prop. I am also hoping they will do some sort of even like Rare Day from last year, since I wasn't around for it. But, if they're not doing any sort of special release like they did with Rare, then I don't know if they will.

 

Agreed, on draft it was good

 

King Henry 2.0 day?

 

How about Prop Day? In Chicago rewarding locals (or whoever buys tickets...) fits the theme of Prop.

Or better yet, just have a ticketed brewery release day for the BCBS stuff. GI could sell tickets online for $10+ bucks or whatever covers costs (or even more to make a fat profit off convenience) and in return the ticket guarantees the holder the righ to buy one of each BCBS that came out that year- Reg, Barley, Coffee, Rye and Prop. You can only enter once and no mules. GI could gain more profit from cutting out the distributor in that model and then people could buy them at GI's suggested MSRP which isn't what they usually sell for.

 

If it's like 15 in terms of pepper strength, MR should be fine. I got a lot more sweetness than pepper. Then again, that sample was at DLD in the late afternoon, so not the most reliable tasting notes.

 

Oh yeah, there's definitely much more sweet than pepper (others have said they couldn't taste the pepper at all). I just don't think they used chipotle last year, so I'm not sure how that'll affect MR.

 

Everyone complaining about peppers have apparently never had Prairie Bomb! I guess.

 

Everyone else is right, it's spelled variant.

 

I'd love it if they did something like this, but wonder if the distributors & retailers would be a bit peeved by it. I'm sure they could strike the right balance of not making it too big to interfere with all the hype at Binny's, etc.

 

That's kinda what I had expected based on the rumors of it coming around again this year. We'll have to wait and see...but it's only 4 months away!

 

If Rare spent 2 years in the barrel, maybe KH 2.0 should as well? Was the original only aged 1 year in the barrel?