They announced it earlier this year but with this new article about coffee and cherry I fear this beer is lost? Does a goose fanboy, employee, or laffler stalker know the story on the missing wheat whiskey?
Goose Island didn't like how it was tasting so they scratched it from this years release and replaced it with Cherry. It may come out at some point in the future but it won't be with this years release
I've only read here on BA that it turned out unfavorable. They probably dumped it unless they are trying to save the stuff somehow buy adding other things, blending etc.
This. Today it was reported in the Chicago Tribune that it will be replaced with Cherry Rye BCS. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-goose-island-312-20120911,0,941586.story
I didn't see a mention of it unless I'm missing something. Either Way it looks like its gone. Just wished they'd give out free growler fills instead if dumping it, I bet it wasn't half bad.
They should have kept the spent PVW barrels to sell this year as a black friday release. Everyone else comes home from camping out at best buy with a TV, etc. You come home with a giant barrel.
Oddly enough, while hunting for the new BCS today one of the places in the western 'burbs that I called said they didn't have any, but did have a single Bramble in stock. So that was worth driving for.
Speaking of dumping beer... I'm amazed there isn't a second hand market for "good" bad batches were a separate "brewing" company buys the entire batch bottles it and releases it at a steep discount. I'd assume that you would need significant non-disclosure agreements and such to protect the image of the original brewer, but that could be done. A system like this would allow the brewer to recoup some of their costs and allow a smaller company to profit while providing "risky" beers to the public.
I guess I might fall in camp 1 and possibly 3 of that second sentence. Was told at Night of the Living Ales that it wasn't turning out as well as hoped, and that it wouldn't be released this year. What ends up with it who knows, hopefully some long term aging. Cheers!
Lol, I talked to him about that when he first joined up with GI, and he has the recipe, but it has to be made on his terms. No one has let him do it exactly the way he wants to yet, and he's not willing to bend on that one since, well, it is his namesake.
Koval has done it several times when its next-door neighbor Metropolitan has made bad batches. Distilled it into something they call Bierbrand.
