Side Project / Shared (2022)

Welp, that was quick

 

Over 1000 when I first checked right at 10.

 

That one time when you hesitate because you figure, “hey, there has to be a ton, I’ve got plenty of time,” & also because you’ve been scarred by the multitude of hazelnut stout failures in the past…

 

Don’t feel too bad. I didn’t even know they were up and didn’t expect them to be from KC’s post above that they wouldn’t make it online to non-LC people so I wasn’t paying attention at all. I was sitting around and then saw these posts that it was gone. Oh well.

I think for me, a little too much kitchen sink ingredients with it and I likely would have passed anyways.

 

didn’t we kind of learn from the other week that these inventory numbers aren’t accurate?

 

from TWCP‘s twitter account today

 

Side Project "For TWCP" Barrel Aged Stout
Barrel Aged Stout with almonds, Cocoa Nib and vanilla beans.

Side Project Merci 40th Anniversary Blend
40th Anniversary - a blend of their Coexpressionalism base, a brett-forward puncheon of Oude Fermier, and a puncheon which held Blended 2017

 

I was gonna get a can just to try it but yeah I'm in the same boat as you. Not a huge hazelnut fan and for $20 I'd rather have a white label

 

Yep, didn’t miss a thing.

 

I don't mind hazelnut, enjoy it actually. I thought someone mentioned it or not, Horus what not, but I enjoyed Goshawk's Grasp the one time I had it, 2018. I only thought of it since when I first saw the description it read like a Horus beer/collab. Meaning varieties of the same ingredients, hazelnuts/hazelnut coffee, chocolate dusted coconut/raw coconut.

For me, I'm really on the fence with coconut beers in recent memory; Achro Vibes, Medianoche Coco, and FOCOCO (yesterday). Happy to have tried them all, but none I'd need to revisit. I can appreciate coconut done well, but it might not be for my palate.

I've only had Blend #3 of the four and that was more of my wheelhouse for additions. Not a huge sample either, 4 cans, but I thought that beer fell apart a bit as it warmed. Much preferred it cold.

 

This was 100% my experience, which is extremely rare.

 

Unless you're The Veil. At least in my opinion of course. Never had anything from a brewery who does apple brandy as good or as consistent as they do. I swear they have the cheat code for that shit

 

This is where I am at with it. Way too many ad-junks for this guy

 

Bubble wrap was a bunch of adjuncts and one of my fav beers of 2021.

 

Damn. I loved that beer too and it had coconut, fuck. Looking at my notes coconut didn’t dominate for me.

 

Coming out from a break swinging…

 

BBT 2021 on-site bottles too.

 

I didn't have the SP version but did have both Veil and Other Half versions. Not a big fan of any of them. The pastry stuff isn't really my thing at all. I have heard that the SP one was very balanced though so I'm sure plenty of others did like it

 

I saw another description and it descibes 44% being vibes in Missouri oak, these are the same oak vessels gabe uses for his oak stouts

also saw that half the barrel aged beer was a recipe called S’mores vibes. Someone mentioned s’mores vibes in for phil, looks like this one has it too!

 

it was so well balanced for so many pastry adjuncts. I was a huge fan.