Great Raft Brewing

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  1. HeadyTheElder

    HeadyTheElder Maven (1,276) Nov 3, 2012 Louisiana
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    Awesome news. I really enjoyed both of those beers, especially AMT. Hopefully y'all are distributing to Baton Rouge by then. :slight_smile:
     
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  2. HeadyTheElder

    HeadyTheElder Maven (1,276) Nov 3, 2012 Louisiana
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    Any of you North LA BAs have an extra Great Raft First Anniversary teku glass? If so, BM me, I'd love to trade for one. I could definitely offer a Grand Reserve and could expand.
     
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  3. SHODriver

    SHODriver Pooh-Bah (2,415) Aug 13, 2010 North Carolina
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    it's funny. a lot of places sold out of or didn't have Awkward Uncle and when I was shopping at the liquor store on base they had about a case. I grabbed a bottle so it looks like I'll be ticking this one after all.
     
  4. donspublic

    donspublic Grand Pooh-Bah (3,552) Aug 4, 2014 Texas
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    Had to go to Shreveport a few months ago and had the Reasonably Corrupt on Tap. Ended up finding a bar downtown in walking distance from my hotel and stayed there until 6:30 in the morning consuming this with my daughter. A month later had to go back to Louisiana and tried finding this in the can, no avail. Got back to Houston and found out that they had just started canning it. Made another trip to LA and brought a case of it back home. Good thing for my parents (who live in Louisiana) I will be making trips to visit every few months to reload. This is a great beer
     
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  5. Yeti1979

    Yeti1979 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2013 Louisiana

    @AndrewNations So how long is this Baltic porter going to age in these pappy barrels? What was the initial ABV on it prior to going in the barrels? And did you fill all of the barrels with the porter?
     
  6. AndrewNations

    AndrewNations Zealot (645) Aug 16, 2009 Louisiana

    9% ABV going into the BBLs. We will release 20 bbls in Jan that hasn't seen oak and 20 more bbls that have seen oak around late March.
     
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  7. Yeti1979

    Yeti1979 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2013 Louisiana

    Sounds great! Really excited for this one
     
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  8. ldhughes3

    ldhughes3 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2013 Louisiana

    Hey @AndrewNations will this batch of Born in a Barn be available for growler fills? Honey and orange peel in a saison sounds great! Really looking forward to this and the Baltic Porter too.
     
  9. AndrewNations

    AndrewNations Zealot (645) Aug 16, 2009 Louisiana

    No growler fills of BIAB. It would go too fast and I don't have the tank space to brew it as often as I would like. Sorry. Its a cool beer. I didn't let it fully attenuate because I wanted to retain some of that honey and residual sweetness. Im not sure everyone will understand or appreciate that but oh well. Thats the whole idea with this series...to play around..

    Baltic porter tasting great. Going in Pappy bbls next week.
     
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  10. Yeti1979

    Yeti1979 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2013 Louisiana

    I hope BIAB last til next weekend. Work is starting to interfere with my beer drinking!! Really want to try this one
     
  11. Yeti1979

    Yeti1979 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2013 Louisiana

    I'm ready for this Baltic porter to be on tap!
     
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  12. JDice20

    JDice20 Zealot (639) Aug 14, 2013 Louisiana


    This.
    And more Grace and Grit.
    And More All My Tomorrows.
    And more Make Believer.
     
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  13. ldhughes3

    ldhughes3 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2013 Louisiana

    I think the demand is there to make these limited release beers available more often. Maybe the tide is turning in our area! Viva la craft beer revolution!
     
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  14. AndrewNations

    AndrewNations Zealot (645) Aug 16, 2009 Louisiana

    demand and capacity are two different things. ; )
     
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  15. Yeti1979

    Yeti1979 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2013 Louisiana

    @AndrewNations Very nice job on Born in a BarnIII. The orange peel and corriander really shine through.
     
  16. ldhughes3

    ldhughes3 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2013 Louisiana

    @AndrewNations is the Baltic Porter still on schedule to be released this month?
     
  17. AndrewNations

    AndrewNations Zealot (645) Aug 16, 2009 Louisiana

    Thursday 1/22

    BA version mid April ish...
     
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  18. ldhughes3

    ldhughes3 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2013 Louisiana

    @AndrewNations So what's this one gonna be called, and will there be bottles? I like Heliopolis, the name of the ship Captain Shreve used to clear the river, that'd be cool name for big beer!
     
  19. JDice20

    JDice20 Zealot (639) Aug 14, 2013 Louisiana



    It will be called "Old Mad Joy"..
    No bottles for the non BA version this go around.

    Bottles for the pappy aged in a few months.... HNNNGHGHGHHGNN
     
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  20. ldhughes3

    ldhughes3 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2013 Louisiana

    Thanks for the update @JDice20 where did you find the release info? What about growlers? I'd love to be able to send some of this to trade partners.
     
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