Side Project / Shared (2023)

4/20 beer & bites.

 

Beer and Bites is the best Side Project event.

 

Derivation 17 is the best Derivation since 12 and 9, imo. So, so good.

Chill crowd today at Shared and the brewery. Able to split a couple bottles of D17 and try the coffee crawl base and multiple variants on draft.

Another great day in STL

 

well, another month goes by without coffee shop vibes.

 

With a few days left and Tuesday often being an important day for releases, I hope (wish?) that you have insider information, and this is classic bait and switch. I wouldn’t even be mad.

 

2 things:

at twice the price of “regular” BBT this isn’t even close to being worth it…

…and, did anyone try the D17 white russians at Shared??

 

Looks like Clayton Winehouse is getting their own version of Parfait, per their IG.

Found the listing on their site. $20/can.

We wanted to pay homage to one of his favorite beers we have produced - Barrel Aged Coconut Vibes. For CWH Parfait, we blended with that special beer in mind and used our Oak Aged Vibes recipe blended with Barrel Aged Stout which had rested for 24 to 37 months in Weller 12 and Willett Rye barrels and a final touch of 2 oak barrels which were a blend of the M.J.K. and Vibes recipes which had rested for 25 months in Willett Bourbon Barrels. The final blend was then finished on raw coconut flakes and shredded toasted coconut. 12.5% ABV

 

Wish they would pay homage to BA CV with another batch

 

Is Clayton Winehouse only selling this to their Single Barrel club?

 

Right now, yes


It’s kind of weird that they’re even getting a batch because other than random Narrow Gauge I didn’t think they sold beer

 

At least I know I won't get this then, unlike TWCP where they would base Side Project allocations based on purchases and they would never tell you whether you were close or not. I'm fine not getting all the releases. Hopefully more beer for others. The folks at Clayton Winehouse are dope and know their wine. Hopefully this drives some traffic to them.

 

Van Winkle BBT onsite starting today. Looking like a good weekend that I happen to be in town!

 

Agreed. Drank mine this past weekend. I’ve had every BBT except for Rye batch 1 and this was my least favorite BBT.

Although I have to say that I don’t do big shares anymore. Drink with my wife, my buddy, and my 2 of my high school friend who both like beer but don’t trade or know much about non-local stuff. This was the third beer we drank and even though this wasn’t a crazy large share where we opened 20 bottles like you see on social media posts, I have to wonder if my opinion would have differed had we opened this first.

 

it’s not like it was a bad BA stout by any means but certainly lacked the depth and complexities of all other BBTs.

 

For sure. I did edit my post though with a disclaimer stating it was the third stout that we opened, and this probably tainted my taste buds a bit, but this wasn’t as big and flavorful as any other BBT I had. I prefer the regular to the Rye batch 2 to this.

 

I thoroughly enjoy the juxtaposition of the last couple of posts in here. One is stoked at getting to try PVWBBT; another is disappointed in the lack of complexity of it. Beer is so incredibly subjective that it is nice to be reminded that if something isn’t your whale, it might be someone else’s. Let each person enjoy their experience with beer regardless of its perceived “quality”.

 

I thought it was near perfect [shrugs]

 

KBBS Reserve, Ann, Van Winkle BBT, The Banshees of Inishiren, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the hip new smash burger spot in Pittsburgh, either my expectations were so high they couldn’t be met or I’m an old sourpuss these days but I’ve been a bit underwhelmed pretty much this entire year in all aspects of life lol.

 

this is my favorite quote of this year!

 

Clayton Winehouse Parfait samples at The Cellar today.