Side Project / Shared (2023)

For Coren.

 

Box set idea. All collab beers for SP’s anniversary from other breweries (e.g. Anchorage, Perennial, Private Press, deGarde/Casey).

 

Lime Content Moderator is perfect. It's a hint of lime, not a spritz in your eye. (Looking at you, Wilson.)

 

Grisette 10 year dropping soon don’t worry

 

I'll take a dry hopped grisette 10year

 

i will gladly take any dry-hopped white label and / or gin BA white label

 

Super quiet, was hoping for a public announcement for continuance 4 but I guess it’s not happening

 

I would think continuance b4 is for sure getting a packaged online release. Surprised it hasn't happened yet this week though.

 

Drinking the new(er) loam. Expected to enjoy this since the first one was so so good, but god damn the acid is killing me. Didn’t expect that at all.

 

I guess it’s a by product of getting old, but any of the sours besides the grisette, bdp, etc are way too acidic for me anymore. Just can’t do them.

 

Yea, there are only certain ones I can do. I just liked Loam (B1? The “purple” one) so much. It was low carb, low acid, perfect. I opened the Loam this morning (moving my champagne stopper to the bottle cap, which is effectively a mini stopper with the new under-cap insert), and the thing nearly exploded. I suspect the high level of carb ultimately probably influenced how body dealt with the acidity level last night.

I don’t know if this is a “normal” carb level to anyone else, but I’ve never had this with any other SP bottle. I was surprised. Maybe I’m just forgetting.

 

I open anything with that champagne cap in the sink. Feel like half the time it just starts foaming out immediately

 

Alright, stupid question time.

Those who have decanted SP beers, does it change the flavor? Or just doing it to leave sediment behind? Or something else? I know they were doing it at the LC parties, but I didn't sample from one.

The Craft Bros aren't posting boomerangs of lit decantings, so I'm at a loss on what to think.

 

My understanding is that one reason HF does it is that they “swirl” it to mix the sediment so that every pour is close to homogenous.

Decanting should be about oxidation (“opening up”), but I couldn’t tell you anything about the benefit of this for the styles of beer you would think to use the decanter for.

 

Oude Fermier Grand cru had a sulfur note that decanting helped to minimize. I have decanted several Side project & Hill Farmstead beers and the ones that really benefit from it are the ones with those sulfur notes (IMO). For example, Saison du Ble b1, Clover b1, Clover b2 come to mind as beers that benefit from decanting. Alternatively you can let it sit in the glass and the oxidation will happen on it's own without decanting.

In my experience with other beers I have decanted it doesn't really add all that much. It looks cool, but the beer gets flat faster and it warms faster.

 

I had Ann at HF twice. Once was straight from the bottle, once was decanted. I enjoyed the decanted more, not that my isolated experience is really worth much for comparison.

 

I don’t think my pathetic ass would be able to tell the difference but those decanters are damn sexy.

 

When it comes to beer, I've only experienced drastic differences in outcomes when the beer is particularly overactive, like when Cantillon was trying to figure out their boxed lambic at the Shelton Bros. festival, and it really needed to settle down.

If the presentation aesthetic pleases you, go for it, but a beverage that isn't meant to be still, as in most cases with beer, just isn't too often served well being decanted. Frankly, lambic pours better out of horizontally stored bottles that have been conditioned anyway, so it's kind of a moot point. Even moreso when we're talking about this in between realm in America, many of which aren't spontaneous, nor corked, nor bottle conditioned, so horizontal storing isn't ideal.

 

Private press has a decanter too for barleywines.

Horus had one before that for pastry stouts and was ridiculed, I got one haha. It actually works

I used to love posting pics of it becasue it really triggers people lol