2017 Westbrook Releases

Could be. Highland Park isn’t even in the Highland region, it is in the Islands region.

So it’s either one of 25-30 possibilities in the Highland region, or it’s Highland Park. Couldn’t tell you which.

 

Cake day is here!!! Wonder what treasures will be on tap? Weather looks good; and I hear the Hot Dog force is strong.

 

Best bottle shop in town?

 

House of brews, brew cellar, edmunds exchange. Just a few. They’re all local guys.

 

Some goodies...

 

I heard it was a great day at WB today. A buddy that's there (picking up my BA set), said that the scotch barrel is getting the most excitement from this year. Any reports from BAs?

 

Scotch was absolutely incredible fresh. Best of the day for sure.

Calvados was great, and port was definitely different. My pour was almost still and the flavor was basicallly dark chocolate red wine. Still good just no Mexican Cake spice.

Amazing day at Westbrook for sure!

 

I would definitely agree with Scotch being the best right now. It actually surprised me, wasn't really looking forward to that one but damn it was tasty!

 

I tried scotch, regular, calvados, and port from this year. Scotch and calvados were the best by far. Got to try red wine from last year and coconut and double chocolate from 2015 which were really special.

 

Scotch is the winner from this year.. all very good though.

 

Awesome, looking forward to trying that scotch, crazy that its the best of the bunch.

 

Scotch was the winner, hands down. Well, unless you count all those Reserva bottles people were buying at $200 a pop. That stuff was incredible.

 

I thought Calvados was the best. Scotch was pretty awesome too. I heard the port on tap is way different then the bottle.

 

Incredible so many ppl are obsessing on the Scotch. While the most interesting it was definitely the worst for me. I like scotch but with beer not so much. It was good for what it was but IMO the Willet '17 was by far the winner....straight chocolate fudge brownie bourbon....

 

I liked them all. Apple brandy >willet>scotch>port
For me

 

I haven't looked at the boards, but given that Scotch sounds like it is popular but it was also one of the larger allotments (3 compared to 2 of some of the others), how high are each of these trading so far? Curious to see how interest vs rarity is effecting what gets trades done. (I don't visit any other trade forums, and lots of things are not reported here on BA, so I wasn't just curious what people might have seen completed so far.)

 

The allotments was 3 willet, 3 scotch, 2 port, 2 AB.

 

My mistake - edited to reflect this.

 

For good or bad?

 

I thought the Willet was great as well. I think we are hearing more about the scotch because folks had lowered expectations going in. I for one, am not a Scotch guy, so going in wasn’t expecting to like it, but I really enjoyed it. Was a nice surprise for me personally.