So I recently traded for what I thought was the BA Framinghammer Vanilla and Coffee. However, the bottles don't actually say if they are in deed BA'd. Can someone tell me if there are regular variants of coffee and vanilla that are not BA'd or are the bottles just not labeled as such? Thanks in advance!
Everything I've seen indicates that coffee and vanilla use BA as the base. If you look at the JA site, they don't list non-BA versions though I have seen the labels you're talking about that make no mention of BA. http://jacksabbybrewing.com/beer.php
Thanks man. I saw that too but I've also seen the labels that say barrel aged so I just thought it weird that they would change it.
Hm...all I can tell you is my Coffee from the previous release has the words Barrel-Aged huge across the top and the regular last released BA also has Barrel-Aged words in the exact same manner. I can't imagine they'd just remove that since it's a pretty big selling point.
I kind of hope it wasn't an oversight, but a marketing experiment - see how much chaos it creates and what the perceptions end up being. Look at the ratings under Jack's Abby. You have the listing for a "barrel aged" coffee Framinghammer that comes in at 4.45 and a listing for a coffee Framinghammer that doesn't call it "barrel aged" (even though it is) which comes in at 4.17. Isn't it, more or less, the same beer?! Is the rating almost 10% higher simply because the label says Barrel Aged? It's like the "tiffany box" theory; put any jewelry in a Tiffany box and wives / girlfriends swoon.
I had last years Coffee and this years coffee multiple times and I think that last years was a much better beer so I don't think Barrel Aged on the label makes too much of a difference.
I've had both as well several times. This year's coffee wasn't as good (vanilla still very solid). In a blind test we (tasting group) had difficulty distinguishing coffee from the regular BA version.
