Ymm, Beer

[devildeac]

I once met a woman with 12 boobs. Sounds crazy, dozentit...

You're gonna get in trouble for that one...


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[devildeac]

2018 Hardywood Double Barrel GBS

That familiar GBS nose.

An unusual chocolatey start, with a load of christmas cookie spices before a mostly apple brandy and oak finish.

Merry Christmas all! 🎄🍻

Our son and I just finished this. An amazing beer. More in the AM as I'm not competent to post a review now.

[devildeac]

Silent Night 2015-Mother Earth Brewing Company

Local!!!!

Credit-mine!!
Format-750 ml corked and caged bottle
Style-BBA coffee infused imperial stout
Stemware-snifters
Appearance-dark, dark brown; no head
Nose-dark chocolate and coffee
Mouthfeel-silky
Tastes-dark chocolate, coffee and bourbon
IBU-50 to 60
ABV-9%; a bit low
Overall impression-high quality
Ymm, Beer rating-middle cat 3; not world class but very well done for the style


I will disqualify myself from any more reviews tonight d/t the quality and quantity of brews ingested; more tomorrow

[fuse]

Fullsteam Black Forest Cake Igor

Disqualifying that I had this on draft at Fullsteam in November, will this be my first canned/bottled nonspoiled Igor?

[this isn’t news; the first 2-3 years of Igor production, a good bit of it was spoiled/cross contaminated/just plain awful or ahead of its time for a sour soy stout]

Great frothy coffee coloured head.

Great cacao nose. I state this with confident authority as a friend asked me to take a sniff yesterday of a bag of organic cacao that went into his cherry bounce.

I’ll go ahead and admit I enjoy this on the first sip more than prior reviewers.
I get chocolate, and cherry with a dry finish.

Some cola notes in this beer as well.

Cheers! 🎉🎊🎄🍻🎊🎉

[devildeac]

Fullsteam Black Forest Cake Igor

Disqualifying that I had this on draft at Fullsteam in November, will this be my first canned/bottled nonspoiled Igor?

[this isn’t news; the first 2-3 years of Igor production, a good bit of it was spoiled/cross contaminated/just plain awful or ahead of its time for a sour soy stout]

Great frothy coffee coloured head.

Great cacao nose. I state this with confident authority as a friend asked me to take a sniff yesterday of a bag of organic cacao that went into his cherry bounce.

I’ll go ahead and admit I enjoy this on the first sip more than prior reviewers.
I get chocolate, and cherry with a dry finish.

Some cola notes in this beer as well.

Cheers! 🎉🎊🎄🍻🎊🎉

Glad I saved a can for you. I think two were designated but I ran out of traders. First taste was Black Forest Cake. Second was day or two old black forest cake. Still, a very good Fullsteam brew.

[devildeac]

I probably shouldn't have poured that 375 ml of a 14.8% ABV at 1000 tonight to share with our son, even if it was a Double Barrel GBS from 2018...
..

[fuse]

I probably shouldn't have poured that 375 ml of a 14.8% ABV at 1000 tonight to share with our son, even if it was a Double Barrel GBS from 2018...
..

The only way your liver is going to get stronger is if you continually test and train it 🤣

[richardjackson199]

Origins - Crooked Stave - 6.5 % ABV

Ruddy brown in color with a strong, musty, acidic aroma.

This is an outstanding sour in taste with just enough complexity. You get lemon, lots of red wine, Brett funk, acetic pleasingly sour (not too sour), cherries, and a nice dry finish. The carbonation is a little too low.

High Category 2 - a great sour - especially if you like red wine and sours.

Merry Christmas!

[fuse]

This may be the first year since Mother Earth released Silent Night that we didn’t share one on Christmas Eve.

The 2019 is chilling in the fridge, maybe tomorrow (or looking at the time, later today 👀 )

[fuse]

Origins - Crooked Stave - 6.5 % ABV

Ruddy brown in color with a strong, musty, acidic aroma.

This is an outstanding sour in taste with just enough complexity. You get lemon, lots of red wine, Brett funk, acetic pleasingly sour (not too sour), cherries, and a nice dry finish. The carbonation is a little too low.

High Category 2 - a great sour - especially if you like red wine and sours.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas RJ199 and beer goddess!
Reads like a tasty drop!

[devildeac]

The only way your liver is going to get stronger is if you continually test and train it 🤣

LOL.

Two words:

Liver. Transplant.

[beergoddess]

Merry Christmas RJ199 and beer goddess!
Reads like a tasty drop!

Merry Christmas to you, LoveNinja, and all on Ymm, Beer!! And happy new year!

[devildeac]

Origins - Crooked Stave - 6.5 % ABV

Ruddy brown in color with a strong, musty, acidic aroma.

This is an outstanding sour in taste with just enough complexity. You get lemon, lots of red wine, Brett funk, acetic pleasingly sour (not too sour), cherries, and a nice dry finish. The carbonation is a little too low.

High Category 2 - a great sour - especially if you like red wine and sours.

Merry Christmas!

I *think* this was one of our recent traders. Tonight, our son said, "No more sours.' Sooooo, we sampled imperial stouts...

[devildeac]

This may be the first year since Mother Earth released Silent Night that we didn’t share one on Christmas Eve.

The 2019 is chilling in the fridge, maybe tomorrow (or looking at the time, later today 👀 )

We are here to help...

See upthread...

[devildeac]

Merry Christmas to you, LoveNinja, and all on Ymm, Beer!! And happy new year!

We'll meet again sometime, somewhere...

[richardjackson199]

The only way your liver is going to get stronger is if you continually test and train it 🤣

this thread gets compared to longest thread ever, but it's basically another fitness thread.. of sorts

[devildeac]

Virtual Pub Stout 11/16/2019

Brewery Bhavana Prosper 2019

A collaboration with Tasty Beverage, aged more than a year in Cabernet and bourbon barrels.

A richardjackson199 “must try”.

Definitely get a whole lot of Cab on the nose, and if you’ve had a bourbon barrel aged Cab, the nose is similar.

Whoa.

Loads of chocolate ease into a vinous red wine mid palate and a woody bourbon finish.

A great stout indeed.

Many thanks richardjackson199!!! ��

From last PM:

Prosper-Brewery Bhavana

Back to local!

Credit-a whim
Debit-$6
Format-pint can; shared
Style-double barrel aged imperial stout
Appearance-dark chestnut; thin head
Nose-cabernet; dark chocolate
Mouthfeel-silky
Tastes-double chocolate fudge, red wine, dark berries, vanilla, wet oak; no bourbon until the last couple sips when it was near room temperature
Adjuncts-none
IBU-60ish
ABV-12.4%
Overall impression-stunning
Ymm, Beer rating-front and center of cat 3; another outstanding beverage from BB

It was great to read fuse's fabulous review over a month ago and plan when I'd share "the other can."

[devildeac]

And may we all have a beery Merry (or winey) Christmas!

[devildeac]

From 2/17/19:

Another Ymm, Beer toast/thanks to accfanfrom1970 for allowing this as a trader at a tailgate last fall:

Double Barrel GBS (2017)-Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

An Allagash Curieux for this? Hell, yea! I'll call it a draw

I think this was their first try at aging their GBS in two different liquor barrels. One *might* call it a success .

Large format bottle (750 ml) shared with our younger son-in-law late Friday PM/early Saturday AM, easily taking about an hour to finish. Poured the expected dark, dark brown with a modest, tan head. I'm pretty suspicious this one contained alcohol and a generous amount of it (10.6% ABV). Redolent with dark chocolate, spices, dark fruits and booze. Enticing flavors of brown sugar, molasses, amber honey, vanilla, ginger and dark chocolate coat the palate with a warming, potent dark rum (aged four months) and bourbon (also aged four months) finish. Rum baba meets bourbon balls. IBUs roll in at 55, same as the original GBS, but the ABV bar is raised to 10.6% and it is indeed boozy but not in an over-powering fashion. Superb concoction.

From last PM:

Double Barrel GBS (2018)-Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Local for some people.

Credit-accfanfrom1970 for picking up at brewery; fuse for out of state pick up and delivery and finally, my Visa card; thanks to all!
Style-bourbon and grape brandy barrel aged spiced/flavored imperial stout
Format-corked and caged 750 ml bottle; shared
Appearance-dark sepia with a few bubbles on top
Nose-many spices, brandy, bourbon and dark chocolate
Mouthfeel-exceedingly smooth
Tastes-brandy, bourbon, ginger zing, cinnamon, dark caramel, figs, dates, raisins, molasses; sooooooo complex
IBU-55
ABV-14.8% (whoa!!);
Adjuncts-cinnamon, ginger, honey
Overall impression-an amazing upgrade over an already spectacular stout
Ymm, Beer rating-high cat 3; world class

[richardjackson199]

From 2/17/19:



From last PM:

Double Barrel GBS (2018)-Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Local for some people.

Credit-accfanfrom1970 for picking up at brewery; fuse for out of state pick up and delivery and finally, my Visa card; thanks to all!
Style-bourbon and grape brandy barrel aged spiced/flavored imperial stout
Format-corked and caged 750 ml bottle; shared
Appearance-dark sepia with a few bubbles on top
Nose-many spices, brandy, bourbon and dark chocolate
Mouthfeel-exceedingly smooth
Tastes-brandy, bourbon, ginger zing, cinnamon, dark caramel, figs, dates, raisins, molasses; sooooooo complex
IBU-55
ABV-14.8% (whoa!!);
Adjuncts-cinnamon, ginger, honey
Overall impression-an amazing upgrade over an already spectacular stout
Ymm, Beer rating-high cat 3; world class

That is high praise. I'll have to seek one out.

And just know that in poker, firing 3 barrels is bluffing with your entire stack in 3 progressively larger bets on the final 3 betting rounds (usually with nothing). So I need to find that triple barrel too, just on degenerate principle.