Side Project / Shared (2022)

ISO: Symmetry info

 

Thanks for getting us started @bread_c , you are always a beacon of SP information.

 

Happy New Year all. Looking forward to another great SP year.

 

looking forward to another year of SP beers, new and old. cheers!

 

Happy New Year! Hope everybody had a good one.

Today’s long haul pour…Cheers!

 

Do I spy an Anabasis lurking in the background?

 

Yes. That was yesterday’s long haul pour. Absolutely fantastic beer. Loved it.

 

Beautiful, unbelievable afternoon at The Cellar to ring in 2022. Health and happiness to everyone this year!

 

Happy new year all! Excited for what’s to come from SP!

 

kicking off 2022 the Shared way. this is tasting great right now.

 

Ringing in the new year with some tete ❤️ Drinking super well!

 

Symmetry online sale coming next week

 

LFG

 

25 to 64 months. How can anyone not be excited about this?

 

64 months... Curious what the oldest stock they have and whether there's a law of diminishing returns on aging. Don't have an opinion and really just wondering.

 

I can honestly say I don't get excited about cinnamon and vanilla et al flavored stouts anymore. Far more accessible breweries do it way better. They should stick to pure oak expression.

 

You shut your mouth! Nobody does cinnamon like side project. Nobody!

 

Sounds similar to bvc!

 

I'm not qualified to tell Side Project to "stick to" anything, but they are so good at regular* barrel aged stouts, it almost seems like a crime for them to add anything else!!

*aka no flavors outside of the base ingredients of a stout

 

Lol I agree, in that they use the most overwhelming amount of it relative to any brewery under the sun.

And it's not just cinnamon, although in that regard they definitely pile it on, but their other adjunct work gives me an instant headache with how overwhelmingly cloying it often is.

The last half dozen times they've thrown out a phrase with the word "thoughtful" in it, what they really meant was heaping mounds and half tank-fulls of adjuncts.

I'm just trying to bring this thread back down to earth with an itty bitty teeny weeny touch of reason and humility before it floats away into the ether on the first day of the year.

C'mon people! The sickeningly sweet fawning is melting my face off.

 

Wooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

You forgot gif

 

T H O U G H T F U L

 

A moment of silence for all the stouts that had "overwhelming" use of adjuncts:

OWK
D2
D8
D9
D11
D12
D13
D15
DM
BVC

Let's bow our heads for the Shared stouts that "piled" it on:

BA Coconut Vibes
BA Coffee Shop Vibes
BA Ambiente

A little humility, Side Project...

 

You're FUN

 

Remind me to revive the "pet peeves" thread to address the excessive acronyms in this damn hobby...

 

I hate to be this guy but the one and only time I had BVC (Invitational) I thought it tasted like straight red hots. I was not a fan.

 

"Thoughtful" red hots?

 

There’s nothing more fascinating to me about this thread than watching the comments and who likes what comment. The dichotomy couldn’t be more obvious.

I haven’t quite figured out why dissenting opinions are so unwelcome here. I put a lot of value in everyone’s view, not just those that like the same beers or breweries I like (although I may be more likely to take their advice on a beer I might like). It’s beer advocate, not SP or CK advocate. It’s more than homership or fanboy-ing. I don’t always agree with @Sabtos view (in fact, his palate often seems in stark contrast to many, myself included, in most threads), but I still value his stark takes, whatever they may be. That’s part of the fun.

 

Fair enough. And again...I'll never suggest I know what Cory should do!!

 

Big thanks to whoever it was that suggested champagne stoppers (@CypressPaul1 ??). The one I bought from Amazon works great. Been testing it out quite a bit over the last 3ish months or so. Much to my surprise, it made my Grisette last for 4 days.

I think I enjoyed the beer more on the 2nd day than the first. (No substantial changes on day 4; did not consume on day 3.) Still think the ~4ish range is an appropriate score for this beer.

 

So what, everyone should like everyone's comment? We should agree with everything everyone says in this forum? Randomly you have someone coming in here like Skip Bayless with a hot take. So the rest of us who don't embrace these hot takes are Side Project homers or Cory King fan boys? I don't think it should be a shocker that most of the people in this forum like Side Project. If people want to make hot takes, it can be entertaining, but please don't go defending them because their comments weren't embraced with open arms.

 

Let's address the real hard hitting issue at hand: Looks like that's still a 750 in the pic

 

What is this...a beer for ants???

 

it needs to be at least two times bigger

 

Humility, from Side Project? Wow, I thought you were retiring from beer, Baback? You waded a little into the deep end with that second post, too, particularly since it wasn't exactly unwelcome by all here. You used to take a reasonable approach to SP's hype, but got dayum, new year new you!

Please re-read my post soberly. It's about the absurdist homerism and adulation being laid on a little too thick in this thread. Again, I'm asking nothing of Side Project.

And yes, more than half of those beers are pastry glop that are outdone by dozens if not hundreds of other more accessible, less overwrought beers on the market. But slap a textured, cursive label on the bottle and charge hefty prices for severely limited product and you're going to have Russian oligarchs who don't even know how to pour a proper glass of beer happy to spend big money for the "best beers in the world" that their Google search turned up.

But hey, whatever it takes for an IG worthy #bosspour pic, right?

I don't know why you posted this, and whether this is a Trump reference, but I'm liking it for Bloodsport anyway.