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Just a little stout tasting I did on my birthday.

 

That tasting will give you diabetes.

 

American Imperial Stouts.

*NOTE* Yes I know they're not in a proper glass. No snifters available in the house*

 

High Life

 

Thanks to zipper8650 for some of the beers, id say we had a pretty great tasting tonight!

 

For the nine of you? Some people had a good day...

 

On Christmas

 

myself, dtx00 (who graciously hosted and provided the vertical), thebouch01, and Davolebomb ran through 03-12 last night. Overall verdict was that most were drinkable at best, with a few really decent ones (09,10), but led themselves to good discussion.

 

day 2 of a tasting. the less impressive of the two, perhaps!



(day 1 involved murda'd out stout and rare amongst others).

great holiday break!

 

The damage from Thursday...

Cable Car 2012
Blåbær 2012
RareR DOS (original growler)
Veritas 011
Crianza
50n4e
Iced Eclipse
Coffee Eclipse
PVW Eclipse (1st bottling)
Twisted Spoke 15th
KH vs. Leon showdown (KH won)
Isabelle
Apple Brandy Hunahpu's

 

"Sort of" tasting this evening.



Not a bad night.

 

must tell you that i appreciate the artistic touch on this compilation. =)

 

Tasting before Phish last night!



Arthur (March batch)
Arthur (recent batch)
Art (batch 2)
Blushing Monk '11
Iris '12
St. Lamvinus '11
Jimmy
Foothills Baltic Porter '10
Abyss '11
Berserker '12
Cascade Blueberry '12

Great beers, great show.

 

End of year beer tasting. Started with homemade tacos. I used the recipes for the tortilla and filling from a recent BA article. I went for eclectic beer offerings trying to get different beer styles as well as barrel finish. Turned out very nice. The WA BBP and KBS were big hits as was the Rye on Rye.

 

What happens when the Skins play the Cowboys, there are HUGE playoff implications, you're a Redskins fan, and you're visiting you're good friend who just so happens to be a Cowboys fan? You open some really nice stuff. Thanks to Momar42 and scottk1969 for the bottle share.


Flower Power to start.

Then w moved onto the three-way gueuze showdown between Gueuze Tilquin, 3F Oude Geuze, and Cantillon Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio.


This was the Tilquin. It came in last - but was still damn good.

Forgot to take a picture of the 3F, but it wasn't that pretty anyways. Finished second.


And here's the 'loon. Which was the winner, by the way.


Then Shaun (Momar42) brought out a Lindemans lambic you can't get in 'Murrica. The Cuvee Rene Kriek has nice sourness, but couldn't really compete with the gueuze trio (as expected).


Next was Cigar City Cucumber Saison (note the score on the TV screen ).


After that was Victory at Sea (again, pay attention to the score of the game ).


Then we cracked open some BCBCS. <3


And FFF Rye'd Da Lightning finished off the night for us.

Also included in the night was the Skins beating the Cowboys /gloat, watching the movie Hooper replete with Burt Reynolds badassery and Sally Field's boobage, and also watching that scene in Black Swan where Mila Kunis does happy fun time things with Natalie Portman.

 

Pretty great tasting...but more interested in how certain bottles are doing at this point. How was the 50th vs. 1999 vs. Millennium trio? Any notable difference in the new anniversary Utopias from the older bottles?

 

This doesn't come close to including everything from the night... but my buddy just sent me this pretty badass picture with our group photoshopped onto the TV:

 

i was pretty let down by the 50th, the 99, and the millennium. probably among the worst of the bottles we tried that day. the 10th anniversary utopias blows my mind...really amazing the few times i've had it. the 2003 was holding up nicely, but i preferred the 10th. just seemed like there was more going on in the 10th and a lot more complex.

 

Had an awesome Christmas tasting, BA Speedway is the truth!