Barrel-Aged Vanilla Stout Tasting Help

They won't be easy to come by but:
Brew Gentleman The End
Cerebral Vanilla Here be Monsters

Your list is pretty damn comprehensive though.

 

I didn't want to be the homer, but Vanilla HBM is absolutely incredible. I did a vanilla stout share with two other guys the week before that release - FO, VR, The End, and Madagascar - and feel like VHBM would have easily surpassed The End and Madagascar, potentially even VR (FO was the clear winner of the day).

 

I still don't see the invite in my inbox

 

Regular or Vanilla HBM? Definitely important to note. Both are incredible, but obviously you'd want the vanilla for your tasting.

The End may be tricky because it was a very small bottling run, and OG Nilla is def a tough one to track down because there probably just aren't that many left in the wild. As always, Side Project stouts remain damn near impossible to pin down.

 

Yep, technicality error on my part.. Good catch

 

Is this going to be blind? If so, it doesn't make sense to give second round privilege to any of them.

 

Maine Beer Company makes Mean Old Tom, which would be easy to get, though probably would consider it on a different level, but it would be interesting to see how it stacks up in a blind set up.

 

I think Mean Old Tom would be pretty easy to pick out seeing as how it would the only non-BA stout on the panel. All hype aside I think it'd be way out of its league with the rest of those beers.

 

Yeah I read over the BA part somehow. But I think it may not be far in the future with MBCs expansion this summer.

 

Very nice lineup. What time should I be there?

Cheers!

 

Will you pay for the ticket to fly out there for said tasting?

 

'Nilla 'Noche. Just for consistency...

 

I believe Tallgrass made a BA Vanilla version of their Buffalo Sweat.

 

I feel like FO and FF should switch if that FO is B1. If 2 leave as is.