Pretty Things Jack D'Or

I'm sure there are some odd bottles stuck away in odd shops but I haven't seen one for a couple of years now. I still have a few bottles of their big stouts (Barbapapa and Fumapapa) in the fridge as well as a last bottle of their barleywine. I wouldn't have the highest hopes for a three-year-old Jack D'Or but I'd like to hear how it's held up, or hasn't. For science.

They were absolutely my favorite brewery and I miss them.

 

Please report back. I'm curious.

I still have half a case of OFR. Had one a few weeks ago and it is still amazing Really leaning intointo tobacco notes I age barleywines for.

 

I know of a place with a few rogue Jack D'Or bottles, please report back, I'd love to have to go buy them if they're good.

 

I had my final bottle last weekend, coincidentally. I was holding onto it for nostalgia's sake, but figured that had gone on long enough. It's been in the back of a fridge since early 2015, and surprisingly wasn't half bad. It was lacking any real punch of flavor, pretty mellow across the board, but figuring it would be nothing after so long, I was happy with what was left.

I would like to know what one of similar age is like if it wasn't stored in a fridge that whole time.

 

The place I know that has it has two bottles that have been on warm shelves, still charging $8 a pop for them too.

 

As a measure of how good or not good it was.. Would you buy one, full price, if you saw it in the wild?

 

If current full price is $8? Yeah, for sure. Part of that is again, the nostalgia.
Take that away, and I'd still pay maybe $6 for it.

 

In retrospect PT got out right before the death of the bomber. Good for them - tho I’m sure they could see the writing on the wall.

That said I’d usually splurge for a PT Jack D’or once a month or so. Good beer.

 

Brewing where they were I don't feel like PT cans or bottled four packs weren't an option. They had made a decision based on...something.

 

Tangentially related, but does anyone know what's going on with Pretty Things's former owners/creators and the project they were supposed to be doing in England? I could only find this article as the most recent.

 

Just imagine how well PT Jack/meadowlark/magnifico 4pk 16oz cans would be doing right now? or a PT tap room?!?

 

Their new brewery in Sheffield, England was incorporated last year but is not yet brewing.

 

Looks like plans for their brewery location in Sheffield were scrapped in April. https://www.rmcmedia.co.uk/vibe/foo...lans-for-a-brewery-at-Old-Dairy-site-scrapped

Here's the original notice from February.
https://www.rmcmedia.co.uk/vibe/food-and-drink/article/Brewery-to-open-on-Old-Dairy-site

 

Can someone with more experience than me confirm if the possible heat + time this bottle may have endured would allow more sugars to develop vs mine kept in a fridge? Because I wouldn't have said mine was that much sweeter than it typically was, just everything was a little muted.

 

I remember Jason Alstrom posting that he liked Jack D’or very much, but that the beer didn’t shelf for very long, so I’m not surprised that it wasn’t great.

 

I have a bottle or Jack D'Or as well as several of their big stouts, so this has been a good read. I have no idea how long I've had the bottle of Jack...maybe I should get to it one of these days.

 

I honestly have no idea how they'd do. I could maybe see Jack doing well being a saison, and those seem to do ok in the market. And the tap room could definitely be successful, depending on set-up, location...etc.

But I could easily see Meadowlark just getting lost in the sea of IPAs, especially considering it wasn't a New England IPA.

 

The stouts and barley wine should be fine though. Last winter, I opened a bottle of ‘Our Finest Regards’ from 2011, batch #1 I think, and it was phenomenal. I never had an old Jack D, so I can’t offer an opinion on that one.

Instead of Jack in the last couple of years, I’ve enjoyed Mystic saisons a great deal. They are pretty special IMHO.