Anyone have experience aging rayon vert? I picked up a 4 pack the other day that just happened to be over a year old. I drank one, it was an awesome brett bomb (as usual). I decided to save two bottles since they've already got a year on them anyways.
I also got some that were a year old and loved it. I drank two, and I'm having a hard time not drinking the other two, since it's so good right now...I don't know if I can really hold out.
Hahaha yeah I opened one today and I made sure to open it over the sink. I've still not opened a bottle of any beer with brett and had it gush.
Its drinking awesome, that amazing Pineapple funkiness is really starting to come out now. The beer still needs some time for the brett 'band-aid' freshness to pass.
Yeah, I dropped down to one bottle last night. Definitely a little band-aid-esque, but getting super-fruity. I guess the last one will go in the basement where I'll hopefully forget about it for a while.
I like the idea of the beer turning more fruity and less band aid flavor, even though the band-aid doesn't bother me. I saw a thread sayind that Green Flash started adding bottling dates on 5/21/12. After reading this thread I had to pick up some Rayon Vert. With 3 Rayon Verts and a WC IPA none of them have a bottle date I can find anywhere. I couldn't imagine the IPA being over a year old. Does GF still do bottle dates? Is there another reason (besides not being over a year old) that they might not have dates?
Personally, I don't get this beer. An over-carbonated decent beer. And I love Brett beers. This one doesn't live up to the hype IMO. But, that's the great thing about beer; there's more than enough to go around.
Reuse the bottles for homebrew, they are great under pressure for potential bottle bombs. Otherwise, I can agree with you. I enjoy the beer quite a bit, but prefer most every other brett beer I have easy access to (Logsdon, Boulevard, The Commons, De Garde, and most imports).
