2012 BA Speedway Bottle Count?

Someone on one of the threads mentioned that he was told ~2700 when he picked his bottles up.

http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...way-stouts-iso-list-inside.49957/#post-645675

 

Pffff, that's so not .rar

 

What was last years bottle count?

 

Not much to add here but pretty sure the 09 BASS release was not hand numbered

 

Zero, correct? Wasn't this not produced since '09?

 

It was released June '11, but that was the '09 BA Speedway they released then I believe.

 

Not if they felt the beer was ready.

 

On the label of the latest BA Speedway, it says it was in barrels for at least a year I believe. I thought all previous releases were in barrels for around 2 years?

 

far less than Rare - which of course is .raaaaaaaaaaaaarRRRR!~!!

 

lulz all previous vintages of BA Speedway combined might come close to the bottle count on rar, which is so .rar that it is .zip.

 

whalez.rar

 

It says right on Alesmith's website it's bourbon barrel aged for 1-year.
http://alesmith.com/beers/barrel-aged-speedway-stout/

 

Usually barrel aging means they taste the beer and release it when it tastes right. It could've happened quicker this time. Some barrels impart more flavor in a shorter timespan depending on if they're 1st run and what not. It wouldn't surprise me if they just released it earlier because it tasted right.

 

Let us know what they say. I'm curious too if they switched the dating methods on us.

 

Well all the dates aside, barrel-aging isn't typically done with whiskey & bourbon for more than a year that I know of without being blended, considering this is 100% barrel aged, I really can't imagine it being 16-18 months, it would be incredibly boozy... but I haven't tried it. We'll see what Alesmith says. I bet the 2009 was just bottled early and was awaiting label approval or something for a month or two, just hypothesizing while we wait

 

I believe all Barrel Aged Speedway vintages have some portion of fresh Speedway blended in.

 

I said isn't typically (after all what's that beer's name? rare?), even if it's 100% BA they blend barrels together to get consistency. And more time in the barrel usually means more boozy in my experience. Typically if brewers are going for wood they use oak chips or virgin barrels. The whole reason for blending (well 2nd to consistency) is so you don't get 20%+ ABV beer from all the whiskey/bourbon that comes out of 1-use barrels.