I have been looking around and am not finding a ton of info on this one. Last weekend I made a pit-stop at a local bottle spot and picked up an Almanac Blackberry, Kern River JO and when I was wrapping up some browsing the shop keep said 'everything is on the shelf right now... except one thing'. He said they ended up receiving 1 6-bottle case of 3F hommage and said 4 never made it out of the shop so on this rare occasion I happened to be in the right place at the right time. TL;DR I scored on a random Saturday. Now for the questions. Normally I have been taught the mentality fruited beers are best consumed fresh, but this one was bottled last year some time and just now hitting the shelves (time importing?). It seems batch 2 is 2013 while batch 1 was 2007, so there has been quite some time for the batch one bottles to mature. I looked at the reviews and didn't find much from people talking about how B1 changed over time so I figured I'd poll the audience. I guess my only question is do I find a reason to pop this one asap or am I free to wait it out for awhile?
lol I think they sell BAV-soysauce at my local ranch99. I always drink one to try it before I consider trading and sadly at $50 I only picked up one. As for the cellar forum, you are probably right. If a mod wants to bump this over there that would be nice. I only posted here because I spend most of my lurking time here and Hommage seems to have hit the west coast last week.
About this, most lambic brewers/blenders mature their beer in the bottle for a minimum of six months before release, because instead of bottle conditioning by adding yeast + sugar, they add a small portion of young lambic, and allow the yeast still present in the old lambic to eat the residual sugars still present in the young (and while I dont know the specifics, this is presumably a slightly slower process).
