GI Bourbon County bottle share tasting order…

My opinion is that you're doing too much. There's really no reason to do them all together. By the time you finish your palate will be wrecked anyway and you'll be pretty toasted.

 

I like how you have beer for palate cleansing. I've only had '13
bcbs but your order there looks good.

edit, the guy above has a good point. just cut it in half and have another night of barrel aged goodness. I would just do a basic vertical and a few variety bottles after if you are still awake.

 

Here is my opinion.

I would start with the 2012 BCBS to establish a baseline. I would then do the Rare followed by Prop and BCBVS.

I would then do a palate cleanse and follow the palate cleanse up the BCBCS. I have not had Bramble, so I don't know where I would fit it in.

The Cherry Rye and Backyard Rye are really desert beers and from my experience are the perfect compliment to Cheesecake.

I would save the older BCBS's for a BCBS vertical.

If you were to follow your order, by the time you got to the Rare you're palates will be toasted and everyone would be too buzzed to really appreciate the nuances of the variants.

It is an epic line-up!

Cheers!

 

Terrible problem you have there. Great lineup though. Have fun!!

 

I'd say chuck the reg BCBS and BCBBW and do an all variant tasting. Do Rare, Vanilla, and Prop first, then the coffees, finish out with bramble, cherry, backyard. if you're still thirsty drink some reg.

edit: if you like this plan do I get an invite? =)

 

I've done a similar, although smaller, tasting and I would definitely drink the Rare prior to the bramble or backyard. The bramble is still pretty sweet and I can only assume the backyard is as well and will effect your palate.. You need to savor that Rare!

 

Nice line up. I wish my beer group could put together a list like that.
Wait this is my beer group!
See you tomorrow lonewolf!!

 

Do the different years blind against each other and the coffee's blind against each other. That way you'll be able to tell if age helped the beers without bias.

 

How many people do you have? Did this a few months ago with 6 others and our palates were fine, even did a lambic tasting after heh Did the BCBS vert first, starting with '08, then coffee, Rare and KH, finished off with the variants (Vanilla, Bramble, KH, Cherry Rye and Backyard were the stand-outs to me, Rare was right behind them).

 

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bcs-variants-tasting-help.158644/

How many plp.?

My opinion is its too many.. No palate cleansing needed except water.

Here is a thread when I did.. Went excellent

 

How many people? The second half of that tasting is going to be impossible to remember.

 

I'm with this. Unless you've got an army, that's quite a bit of Bourbon County for one night's tasting. Though I'd love to be able to try all of those beers, you've got quite the cellar man!

 

Whatever you do, do it blind