Official FOBAB Countdown Thread

You will learn that half the fun of FoBAB is discovering great barrel-aged beers from random breweries, and not the super-hyped stuff. Bell's BA 9k is worth the hype though!

 

Piece bringing BA Mooseknuckle

 

this just announced via twitter... my mother will be making barrel aged green bean salad for the BAs

 

Linkz or it didnt happen

 

No hard feelings bro, this will make you feel better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=MX0D4oZwCsA&feature=fvwp

 

just to steer this back in the right direction...

jolly pumpkin ever participate in past years?

 

Jolly Pumpkin was there last year and brought Bam Biere, nothing to get too excited about.

 

Gonna be so drunk, oh yeah.

 

I am gonna get Xocolotl wasted!

 

I feel like this is going to make me go crazy. 17 breweries with 170 different beers or whatever... and 16 tickets.
I might be the most indecisive person on earth. By the time I choose what I want first it'll either be tapped out or the event will be over....

 

I was under the impression you can buy more tickets for $1 ea

 

true. you must not be very indecisive though..

 

Happy FoBAB-eve! For comparison purposes for this year's event, and because I haven't been able to find a complete list anywhere else, here is the list of offerings from FoBAB 2011, in alphabetical order:

AC Golden Brewing Co.: Apricot, Barrel-Aged Baltic Porter, Kriek, Peche
Against the Grain Brewery: Local Option Morning Wood, Shart Pants: A Tribute
Allagash Brewing Co.: Curieux
Bear Republic Brewing Co.: Barel Aged Ryevalry, Tartare
Bell's Brewery: Black Note, Rye-ghteous
Boston Beer Company: Sam Adams American Kriek, Sam Adams New World Tripel, Sam Adams Stonybrook Red, Sam Adams Utopia 2011
Court Avenue Brewing Co.: 21st Amendment Ale, Bourbon Barrel Brown, Oak Aged Baltic Porter
Crown Brewing: Bourbon Cherry Industrial Porter, Bourbon Replicale Stout, Jack Daniels Winter Warlock
Destihl - Champaign: Black Angel Stout, DeadHead Double Red Ale, Dosvidanya RIS, St. Dekkera Reserve Sour Hawaii Five-Ale
Destihl - Normal: St. Dekkera Reserve Flanders/Oud Bruin, St. Dekkera Reserve Framboise, St. Dekkera Reserve Sour-Forsaken Barrel Lambic, St. Dekkera ReserveSour Strawberry/Raspberry Ale
FiftyFifty Brewing Co.: Evil on Brandy, Imperial Eclipse Stout - EC20, Old Conundrum Barley Wine, Roge Baril Baltique
Finch's Beer Company: Dirtier Bird
Firestone Walker Brewing: Black Xantus, Helldorado, Sticky Monkey, Velvet Merkin
Fitger's Brewhouse: Batch 3000, Bourbon Edmund Imperial Stout, Decadence, Fitger's Framboise
Flossmoor Station: Collaborative Evil 2010, Dark Matter Imperial Stout, Pullman Brown Reserve
Glacier Brewhouse: Beam Porter, Big Woody Barleywine, Czech Imperial Stout
Goose Island Beer Company: Amara, BCBS Bramble Rye, BCBS Coffee, BCBS 2011, BCBS Ghost Pepper, Heartwood Symposium Ale, King Henry, Lolita, Madame Rose, BCBS Manhattan Barrel Aged, Scarlett
Goose Island - Clybourn: Cinders, Louisville, Sweet Southern Kiss, XOCOLATL
Goose Island - Wrigleyville: Broadshoulders Barleywine, Honey B (Best of Show), Lucky Leiah, Run for the Roses
Grand Teton Brewing Co.: Coming Home, Who's Brett?
Great Divide Brewing Co.: Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Half Acre Beer Company: Rainbow Rye, Small Animal, Big Machine, Wake of the Flood
Harpoon Brewery: Crimson Warlock, Uncle Fester
Haymarket Pub and Brewery: Clare's Right Hook, Clare's Thirsty Ale, Indignant, Steve it to Bieber
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: Bam Biere
Lagunitas Brewing Co.: Chocolate Raspberry Brett Bourbon Barrel Aged
Lakefront Brewery: Dan's Baltic Porter, Fuel Cafe Coffee Stout
Leelanau Brewing: Good Harbor Golden
Limestone Brewing Co.: Monkey Wood, Oaked Pig
The Lucky Monk: Solitude Stout
Lunar Brewing / Blue Cat Brewpub: Wood Aged Black Zemon
Lunar Brewing Co.: Kosmonaut Hooch
Metropolitan Brewing: Carburetor Doppel Rye, Doppel Sticke Alt, Flybock
Mickey Finn's Brewery: Libertyville Sour Brown
Miller Valley Brewery: Bodacious Blonde, Celebration Porter, Frederick Miller Chocolate Sour Cherry, Wild Apricot
Moylan's Brewing Co.: Old Blarney Barleywine, Ryan Sullivan's Imperial Stout, Wet Black Hopsickle, Wet Hopsickle
Nebraska Brewing Co.: Apricot au Poivre Saison, Black Betty, Fathead, Melange a Trois
New Belgium Brewing Co.: Clutch, Kick, La Folie Sour Brown Ale, Vrienden
New Holland Brewing Co.: Barrel Aged Charkoota Rye, Barrel Aged Golden Cap, Barrel Aged Night TRipper, Dragon's Milk
Oakshire Brewing Co.: Frederic's Lost Arm, Hellshire II, Skookumchuck Wild Ale
Piece Brewery: Mooseknuckle, Panic Attack
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey: 2010 Deliverance, 2011 Angel's Share, 2011 Older Viscosity, 2011 Red Poppy, Veritas 010
Revolution Brewing: Barrel Aged Black Powder Oatmeal Stout, Barrel Aged Institutionalized Barleywine, Barrel Aged Skara Brae Scottish Ale, Barrel Aged The General Molasses Porter
Rock Bottom - Chicago: Fallen Angel Abbey Ale, Naughty Scot Scotch Ale, Sled Dog Imperial Red
Rock Bottom - Cincinnati: Liquid Sun Brandy Tripel, Rudolf's Bourbon Scotch Ale, Sarah's Two Headed Buffalo, St. Nick's Bourbon Barleywine
Rock Bottom - Des Moines: Barrel Reserve Illuminator Doppelbock, Barrel Reserve Terminal Stout, Because Jade Asked, Oaked Merry Prankster
Rock Bottom - Lombard: Cuvee de Timmay, Imperial Sir Marshall, Makin' Maple Bacon, St. Timotheous
Rock Bottom - Orland Park: Dirty Old Biddy Loves a Little Wood, Gdanskalot, Naughty Scot, Wait for the Blackout
Rock Bottom - Warrenville: Gettin' It On
Schlafly Beer: Schlafly Barleywine, Schlafly Bourbon Ale, Schlafly Imperial Stout
Shmaltz Brewing Company: Vertical Jewbelation
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: Bourbon Barrel Aged Fritz and Ken's Ale, Bourbon Barrel Aged Trippel, New Clairvaux Petite Syrah Barrel Aged Ovila Saison
Squatters Pub Brewery: 529, Fifth Element
Sun King Brewing Co.: Bourbon Barrel John (BBJ), Mai Pappy, Pappy Van Muckle, T-Bone Express
Surly Brewing: Five, Moe's Bender
Three Floyds Brewing Co.: Bourbon Moloko, Conquistador de Muerte Porto, Kinder Beer, ****zerak!
Two Brothers Brewing Co.: ASKEW, Hoodwinked, Resistance
Uinta Brewing Co.: Cockeyed Cooper, Labyrinth
Upland Brewing Co.: Gilgamesh
Upstream Brewing Co. - Old Market: Iowa Coffee, Kurgan, Upstream Grand Cru
Upstream Brewing Co. - West: Gianduja, Horse Feathers, NOLITA, Snow Blind

 

No Neopolitan last year? Shucks I sure hope it makes it there this year

 

So, the plan is that my wife is dropping me off in Michigan City today, I'll be taking a train to downtown Chicago, and will be relying on public transit and rides for my transportation & on fellow BAs for places to sleep and company.

and.....go!

 

which session u going to?

 

afternoon.

 

If anyone is coming from out of town, there is a place by me that still has a couple 4 packs of Bourbon County in the fridge that I could pick up and trade for something I can't get around here. Surly? (Darkness???).

 

Me and a couple buddies will be at the afternoon session. I'm also planning to meet-up with Treebs. You're welcome to join, just shoot me a BM.