I recently made a trade with this guy on Facebook who was also a member of one of the beer groups I belong to. When I received my stout (a Double Barley Brewing Thrilla in Vanilla) on New Year's Eve, I bought it to the bar to share with my friends. My bartender opened it, we noticed that the 1st pour was all heady. He poured out the 1st pour and distributed the rest among me and my friends. We immediately took note how fizzy its appearance was and how faint the vanilla scent was as well. We took a sip and it was all bubbles, total carbonation and undrinkable. I scent a message to Double Barley Brewing about their beer and they confirmed that the beer was re-carbonated and that they will compensate me for my trouble. With that said, I was wondering if anyone has ever had this problem themselves and what was done about it? Unfortunately, I wanted to contact the guy who traded me the beer and demand he send my stuff back, but he is no longer on Facebook (don't trade with a guy named ************ edited by mod because of personal info).
Don't know why you feel the trader is responsible. It was out of his control. Brewery said they would make good and you want trader to make good? Not being wise ass, just my take. Will be interested in watching this.
If I had to guess it sounds like you got a bad bottle, and looking at reviews it seems there have been other reviews that state the same problem with over carbonation. This in no way is the person you traded withs fault.
I know one person who's going on my DNT list . . . It wasn't the trader's fault, brother. And you're getting compensated by the brewery. What's the issue?
Here is another review a couple down from yours Poured into a Funky Buddha Brewery snifter. No freshness date. A- Pours a dark brown color with a towering three finger dark tan head that eventually settles to a thick ring around the edge of the glass and a mostly full sheet of surface foam. S- Hard to find much of anything through all this foam but what's there is some toasted malt and light vanilla. T- No vanilla, no malt. Just intense carbonation flavor (it's called carbonic acid right?) that makes the alcohol burn more than it should. M- Incredibly spritzy from the intensely high carbonation and a body leaning toward the fuller side. O- I don't know if this is a product of infection, bottle conditioning or what, but this is no longer a vanilla porter. It reminds me of homebrew gone wrong. Total fail. It wasn't a gusher immediately upon opening the bottle but, once it sat for a few minutes, foam made its way up and out of the bottle and made a mess. I'm pissed I wasted my hard-earned money on this crap. Nearly undrinkable.
