White Chocolate possibly infected; Patrick Rue responds

Time to buy a bunch of '13 WC!

 

I had observed in another thread that my bottle of WC gushed a little bit when first opened.

I had previously drank cherry oude tart, so if there were any sour notes they were likely masked.

 

Must be why they released a bunch to be sold online.

 

I also had the first bottle I opened this past weekend gush quite a bit. It definitely tasted substantially different to the bottle that I drank from the initiation package a few months ago.

 

This would suggest the Bruery has figured out how to carb extremely high alcohol sours, something that continues to elude Lost Abbey...

 

Well I hope they do the same refund thing with the Ebony and Oak if this is sour.....
Cause I'm sitting on a bunch!

 

Zing! But let me guess, I'll see you this Saturday, right?

 

Here's hoping its just a few bad bottles.

Ironically this comes after their blog post about how they prevent cross-contamination from their sour program: http://bruery.blogspot.com/2013/08/sour-barrel-aged-beer-packaging.html

I'm hoping this is only a few bottles and not the whole batch.

 

Sadly, no -- my alma mater Northwestern is playing Cal at Berkeley for the first time ever, so I'm staying home. No DDG for me.

 

I opened two 2013 bottles recently and they both had a slight tart tinge to them. I found this also to be the case with a bottle of 2012 that I recently opened; however, the tartness in the 2013 bottles was more pronounced.

FWIW, I've liked WC from its first release and always considered a subtle funk/tartness to be a general characteristic of the beer.

 

Just got two in the mail today. Popped the first and I'm with the OP...Hope my second isn't like this.

 

. . . and here we go again.

 

Damn it.

 

How do you tell 2012 from 2013 from the label? Does 2013 have a different ABV?

 

2013 is bottle dated somewhere around the neck.

2013's wax is also noticeably more "white".

 

Label says 2013 plus white wax is solid white as oppose to cream colored. B1 WC has no year on label. Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for differentiating details Uncleserg!

 

The bigger concern... a good percentage of the Bruery beers are recommended to age. Discovering a similar issue in 2/3 years would suck. How do beer recalls happen? Should Toyota be consulted?

 

If this is a widespread thing, i hope i get coupons to cover my $60 bucks.

 

plz no