Wondering if anyone has experience aging this thing. I've got a couple of bottles, and I'm planing on aging at least 1 of them a couple years. How long should I hold on? What's the sweet spot in terms of age?
Apparently 30 years is a good amount of age. Look at the reviews. I had a fresh one recently and didn't care for it.
It remains to be seen if these new bottles will compare to the old bottles in terms of ageability... if they do, then as long as you're into leather/wine/soy sauce flavors, age them as long as you like. I opened a '93 recently and one from the early 70s in January and both were magnificent. Based on an initial taste of one of the new bottles, I have no clue about its long-term potential, but it certainly seems like it could go for a few years, and may hit that nice spot that BCS/Blackout/Expedition seem to end up in where it's got some lingering hop bitterness without the fresh herbaceous aromas, though it's a bit thinner in body than any of those beers.
I was absolutely shocked when I cracked one of these open. Great stout, in my top 3 even, up there next to Eclipse and Parabola. Like the previous poster above me said, prolly the best non-BA stout ive had at least.....
