Side Project / Shared (2023)

Pretry sure CK ( @Heisenbrew ) was the one that posted. I recall this as well.

 

i found the screenshot on my phone. from before thanksgiving.

 

legit just spit my coffee out laughing

 

Hate to be that guy but “Pappy Van Winkle 10 year” doesn’t exist. Old Rip Van Winkle 10 year are the barrels they used. “Pappy Van Winkle” designates the 15/20/23 year bottlings. Kinda irks me that they have a bourbon that doesn’t exist on the official description for BBT22. “Pappy” really dials up the hype though.

 

@Heisenbrew WE WANT ANSWERS!

 

ORVW BBT - sorryyyyy

 

People on here get a pass, but it is sloppy from the brewery's side. The main thing here is that if barrel is going to connote quality, then you have to be accurate. You'd never say, "We racked this in EC18 barrels!" if you meant ECBP barrels. Conversely, you really shouldn't say Pappy if you mean ORVW or Lot B. There's an age and quality difference between these, not to mention scarcity which is obviously supposed to be a proxy for quality.

One way that this could get you into trouble with some brands and barrels is entry strength of the juice (and thus finishing proof of the juice and what's left in the barrel to mix with the beer). Not everything within the same line enters at the same proof, because they know what that product will be based on where they are planning to put it. In the case of ORVW vs. Pappy, they all start at the same proof (approx.), but maturity and individual characteristics obviously dictates which become what and how long each is aged.

 

While I don't normally quote myself, November 2022 me likely remembers the conversation better than January 2023 me does:

 

All I could think of was Oscar from the Office when he would correct someone ...."well actually..."

 

Not a huge surprise, but OWK bottle pours at brewery now too.

 

Pappy bbt confirmed

 

We were all way over on the price of the Tavour bottle, but to be fair that was "shared", and the unknown was tavour pricing. This isn't DB, just an exclusive barrel in limited quantities. Should be less than the DB bottles, so this should be like...$35 or 40, right?

 

same price as regular BBT for half the liquid… ?

 

Terminus was $40. There's no way this isn't at least $50.

 

i’m gonna go ahead say $60 and honestly, i think i might be $5 short…

 

Side Project just destroying the beer game literally every other week. Good god.

 

To be fair, Terminus was a collab, and all of their collabs exceed their "standard" pricing schemes for the same type of beer. (Which makes sense, they are splitting the profit.)

 

I feel like this has gotta be on-site only, probably the stout week surprise?

 

Or direct to Tavour

 

don’t play with my emotions y’all

 

C’mon first new beer of 2023 LC!!!! I won’t be there till May, so let’s hold off on on-site only bottles for a little

 

it showed what i assume to be accompanying glasses in the story yesterday too. i think this will be LC

#keepthefaith

 

I really hope you’re right. I prefer to drink at home vs the cellar and would love to solo dome this in my recliner and debating my life decisions.

 

If I knew how to insert GIFs, Ted Lasso’s “Believe” would be appropriate right here

 

how about step brothers?

 

GIFs are easier than a photo. For a GIF, just find it on google, right click and copy image, come back and paste. The GIF shows up. By contrast, if you want to insert an image you have to save it to a hosting site (I use imgur, others use...postimage?), and "paste" it that way (more than none way to accomplish this).

 

Did we just become best friends?! Yup!

 

it’s the f*ckin’ Old Rip Van Winkle BBT Mixer!

 

shit, you stole my line! too many good lines in that movie!

 

Oh damn!! I really hope this guy is to go, but I got a feeling it’ll be on-site only, fingers crossed!!

 

the bathroom vial fills are to-go, though, from what I heard.

 

Oh joy, a longer acronym. Dbpvworvwdbbbtb1

 

Is old Rip the same recipe as Pappy and Lot B etc? Pappy is just aged longer?

 

The same distillate (at approx. the same proof - since it always varies a little) goes into barrels and gets placed in the locations that are known on average to be the best/consistent for that line. They taste them and slowly earmark them as it becomes apparent what each barrel will become.

So, yes, same mash bill, same distillate, just aged for different periods and proof is adjusted based on brand after being dumped.

 

I already knew the answer. Just pointing out how silly it is to write two paragraphs bitching about 10 year vs 12/15 etc when it's the same "pappy" recipe.

 

I always thought your screen name was a reference to an author, thus encouraging us all, or at least yourself, into reading more. Alas, I think I just realized it's just a sports reference.

This whole time I think we all just assumed this forum was for you and we just wanted to pay tribute with as many words as possible.

 

So, maybe they should just call it a Weller barrel or a Weller barrel a pappy barrel since it’s all just the same mashbill?

 

I'm sure you would bitch about that as well. Probably a couple of paragraphs worth.

 

I think you’re onto something here. From now on all the Buffalo Trace barrels will be referred to as George T. Stagg 8 year barrels.