Sometimes I just can’t help myself... 🤣
If you’d prefer to drink at the beach, take your Ironclad to Wilmington where you can sing a New Anthem on Bill’s Front Porch. If you are still thirsty, you could ride your Broomtail to Front Street. Be on the lookout for a Flytrap!
Total Wine here is advertising Black Friday specials including having Goose Island bourbon county stout and Guinness bulliet bourbon barrel stout. I’m assuming are both worth the trip? I’ve not had either one...
The Guinness is a first time release. I’ll be keeping an eye out for it.
Goose Island for me has been hit and miss because I seem to be really sensitive to soy off flavours (I also think this sensitivity can be linked to food pairing). In general I find them to be really good and worth seeking out.
Goose Island BCS is excellent and worth finding. The variants (6? 8?) are supposed to be even better but guessing they're only released in the Chicago area.
Fuse linked the Guinness Bulliet BBA Stout earlier today and I'll be looking for that over the next few weeks.
Perhaps you can be the first to taste and review for Ymm, Beer.
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From 11/10/13:
From 11/12/18:
75 Minute IPA (brewed on 10/8/18 stamped on bottle neck)-Dogfish Head Craft Ales
On the 5th anniversary of August West's trader/treat at tailgate, CB&B traded this to me last Saturday. Thanks!
Let's see, what's different 5 years later? I thought there was a bit less pine/resin with this version and more orange, orange zest and orange liqueur, resembling the 90 Minute IIPA more than the 60 Minute IPA. There's a very subtle and very pleasant, sweet maple finish. The smoothness belies the 75 IBUs and the 7.5% ABV is on target with the style. This is certainly worth a 6er, keeping 3 for yourself and sharing/trading the others.
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I'll try to have a review of the not BBA Terrapin W-n-B Tart Cherry Chocolate Coffee Imperial Stout later tonight. We're headed out for the evening so it may be tomorrow AM but I will review it. Who do you think you're dealing with here, mattman? Hopefully, I'll present it in such a way as not to make fuse more sad .
(sorry guys, couldn't resist )
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Tart Cherry W-n-B (500 ml bottle; retired beer from 2016 Reserve Series)-Terrapin (cough*millercoors*cough) Beer Company
A derivative of their Wake n Bake series which has always (?) been a coffee oatmeal imperial stout base, this one with Montmorency cherry juice added.
Our younger son-in-law toured the brewery last week before attending the Georgia-Auburn FB game as part of a bachelor weekend for a good friend of his from HS and college. For $12, you got the tour, two Terrapin pint glasses and (he claims) as many fills of the pint glasses as you desired (). He opted for 3 (maybe 4) half pint pours pre-game. He bought three $8 bottles from their Reserve Series: the above, Raspberry Truffle (consumed Thursday night with the above) and Moo-tella, a hazelnut coffee oatmeal imperial stout (I think), which we'll save for their New Year's visit.
We shared the 500 ml from snifters. Pour was a ruby-dark brown with a modest, pinkish-tan head. Chocolate-covered cherries were immediately perceived, followed by aromas of cold-brewed, dark roast coffee. Coffee is the first flavor and then tart cherries and semi-sweet chocolate morsels. Palate-pleasing and coating sensations were smooth and silky (oatmeal was one of the grains). Finish was dry and mildly boozy without barrel-aging. IBU surprisingly low at 20 (most imperial stouts are 40-50 or higher) and the ABV was a warming and dangerous 9.4%. One could make a case for this as a breakfast stout with assorted baked delights but it was wonderful as part of a nightcap, too, without any desserts.
HOPS: Nugget
MALTS: 2-Row Pale, Crystal 85, Flaked Barley, Flaked Oats, Chocolate, Black, Roasted Barley
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Wondering if a glass of Ymmm, Toast will be appropriate by about 7:15 this evening.
Hoping for the best for our football team tonight.