Revolution Cafe Deth Infected?

Well. At the same time.

I mean, the coffee they used in BCBCS last year was of the more tart/fruity type too. Obviously, it got a lot more tart/fruity due to the infection, but even fresh non-infected BCBCS had a little bit going on.

 

I had last year's BCBCS and yeah, I guess I could see that, but wouldn't consider it "infected-tasting" (at least...the non-infected version ), which is why I was curious about Café. The most annoying part is that I promised a friend I'd open my bottle when she was around (which won't be for a while), so now I'm just staring at this bottle every day, like, "WHAT DOES A TART COFFEE STOUT TASTE LIKE?!?"

 

I don't think you did anything wrong raising the question, I think people may just be objecting to the header (which makes it sound like the beer is for sure infected). Rev recently had a problem with this, so I think people are being defensive in a "c'mon, leave a local brewery we love alone already!" type manner. Between that and the BCS debacle last year, we're all pretty sick of having to worry whether our precious barrel-aged beers are bad. I wouldn't worry too much about it, sooner or later everyone gets shit for something they say on the internet (right or wrong)!

And yeah, since you're new around here (seems like), I guess people aren't going to give you the benefit of the doubt they'd give some older guys(although honestly, who knows); don't worry about it too much. Hopefully it isn't infected, but if it is, you can always revisit this thread later and post an "I told you so!" Rev was indeed pretty open about the last infection, so if there's anything wrong, we'll probably know soon enough regardless.

 

Neckbeerd nerds are pretentious, who knew

 

Had a bottle from the brewery release yesterday, drank cold to warm, excellent beer, no issues at all.

 

It's almost like as it warms up different flavors begin to come through. Like every beer ever.

 

That's not really a troll. People perceive different flavors when beer is cold vs warm and vice versa. There's a bunch of science behind it, but the simplest way to explain it: Know anyone who likes to drink warm Coors Light?


Stop assuming everything is an attack on your post.

 

Seems like the BCBS infections have people on edge.

 

I wish people would put themselves in the shoes of a brewery (a business) before making highly public accusations regarding a possible "infection." I mean, you clearly didn't do your due diligence or you'd have seen the facebook post, and I'm wondering how long you waited for a Twitter response, five minutes?

 

I mean the guy put a ? mark after it. If that didn't clearly indicate it was a question, I'm not sure what else would have clued folks in.

He thought it tasted off and asked. There wasn't an accusation.

 

Yeah Revolution seems like they're in real danger of shutting their doors.

 

Even on the FB post, the dude who originally posted didn't seem entirely convinced by Josh Deth's response. I don't have an opinion either way; just saying that that post doesn't necessary squash jimp's question.

I also think it's a little tricky to say "don't post about the possibility of an infected beer" on this site. What else is he supposed to do? It's not like every person who buys Rev beer is on the Great Lakes region of this forum, and will now avoid them completely. Hell I'm here, and this won't affect my purchasing choices at all. There's nothing wrong with asking a question/eliciting a discussion. I'm 100% in agreement with you that we shouldn't actively harm a brewery's rep unnecessarily, but this isn't that.

As far as I know, the FB question was from a specific Chicago beer group (that I've only been part of for like a month). If you're not in that group, you wouldn't see it.

edit: Also, the BCS infection thread started the same way, so there's no real way to win here. Those guys (in Florida) were being accused of either having busted palates, having hot beer that went bad (they were in Florida, after all), or just have a one-off bad experience. Again, not saying these beers are bad, just saying that, let's say there were an infection, someone would have to start the thread (and get yelled at).

EVERYONE JUST RELAX AND BUY SOME F*%KING REV BEER