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I could’ve bought the wheat wine. Just didn’t appeal to me. Old boss said Costco was selling the regular bottles for $9.99. I definitely didn’t pay that.

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Had a few BCBS's last week The regular one was pretty solid for right out of the gate not over hot from the barrels like a fresh BA stout. The coffe was ok at first but opened up as it got warmer and was a solid beer. The cherry was kinda faint seemed like a regular BC just a tad sweeter. Got my hands on a bunch of the Rye so looking forward to trying that one. I was out of town so pretty much missed getting any around here.

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Mayflower Coffeehouse Porter. Not fancy. Just delicious.

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Homebrewed Amber Ale

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Didn't know zombie dust came in cans, very cool :tu

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Digging some of these German lagers from my advent calendar.

Scored two bottles of KBS Espresso and a 4 pack of Founders Angelic Mountain.

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KBS Espresso last night, not super coffee-y but still a delicious beer. Found a liquor store that still had 3x 4-packs left from the one case they got in, after I left they had none :D

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:banger :tu

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Trying to get caught up on my advent calendar. Day 8 is a Landenburg Weisenbock Hell. Delicious.

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You are already a week behind?

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You got some 'splaining to do, Lucy!

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Yea, the work trip out of town put me behind. Day 10 is a Hols Marezenbier. Good summer beer.

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Paper Planes
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36073/138904/

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Fredo, you broke my heart. :r

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enjoyed a bottle of Defenestration from Russian River. Pretty nice.

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Finally got ahold of my case of 2019 BCBS. Haven’t had a chance to crack one open yet.

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Demand for the Goose Island Bourbon County Stout is not what it has been around here in previous years.

https://i.imgur.com/j6LEZ8F.jpg

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My guess is production is up. I was at Total Wine last night and they had cases of the cherry and wheat wine. I picked up a single of the cherry so I didn't have to drink the one I picked up on black friday but it's not as exciting as if I had found a variant after release day three years ago, which would never have happened

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Makes sense, Ben....although my place had case upon case of the "regular", but none of the variants.

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Oddly enough the regulars are harder to come by around here than the variants, I slightly overpaid for them on black friday because I didn't want to have to hunt them down but I've only seen a few places with them on the shelves since then. I think my idea on production increases came when I saw so many places selling the three year vertical 17-19, I wonder how many bottles they produced in 17 and 18 if they could sell so many of them in 19 (for a steep markup of course) and how many are being made now

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Went into my corner place today, and they have all the variants. Coffee for $21, cherry for $25, some other one for $22. I passed.

Ben, either one of those first two worth that price of admission?

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From what I heard the cherry is actually supposed to be really good, I'll report back when I try it. Also heard the coffee was good not great, I picked up a single but I don't know when I'll get around to trying it. The only one I would run to buy more of is the reserve rye (red box), I love rye stouts and I bet they did it well. Everything is worth whatever the buyer will pay for them and I'm sure these will all sell out at some point soon, but with KBS being a year-round production and things like World Wide Stout being easily available in many forms I don't need to be spending $20+ on single bottles of BCBS for daily drinking

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Thanks, Ben. They actually have several cases of each variant, and at that price I may have a while to decide if I wanna try one. :D

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Those prices are actually pretty fair, unless the other is the wheat wine (yellow label) which I believe was cheaper than the rest, but also is supposed to be fairly sweet

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Thanks Ben, that's what I was wondering. If you report back that the cherry or rye is good and they still have some, I may bite.

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The rye is pretty damn good!

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:tu -(P

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Enjoying a Firestone Walker barrel works undercurrant

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That sounds interesting Clay.

I had a few Founders beers over the last couple of days. The new Frangelic Mountain is sublime. It's a imperial brown ale, with coffee. Might have to pick up another 4 pack.

Also had some CBS. Used part of a bottle to make CBS syrup to add to eggnog. Of course couldn't let the remainder go to waste. The CBS syrup was a big hit at my friends house. I bet it would be good over ice cream.

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I've had the underground brown but haven't been able to find the frangelic yet, had it at a tasting around 2011 when they first made it and absolutely loved it, hoping they still have some of that magic in these new bottles.

And yes, CBS syrup on ice cream please :D

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Cracked a few J. Wakefield beers with my brother. Man with the Golden Chura and double vanilla Han Shot First.

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Opened a bottle of Gueuze Tilquin à l’ancienne from their 2014-2015 bottling last night. Pretty sour and very funky. Had a beautiful mushroom earthiness to it. Light baryard and a slight leather on the finish. Very dry and highly carbonated. Glad I have a few more from that season in the cellar.

Anyone else dig on sour beers? I know they don't pair too well a cigar, but they are damn delicious

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My local farm brewery always has a couple. They're wonderful beers but they do sell less than anything else on the menu. Luckily the owner/brewer loves them so he always has two or three on tap. IMO they do go better on a hot day than any other time. They make the mouth sparkle as if they were much colder than they are.

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Just picked up some Surley 13. It sounded delicious and will hopefully make to my birthday in March

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Hit up a couple VA breweries the past few days before heading back to CO, the cherry on top was Adroit Theory out in the middle of nowhere, only been once before and was very happy to return. Too many to list, but had about a dozen tasters of some of the finest dark liquids around. I don't think their BA stuff is really next level yet, but their regular dark stuff and the endless variants were quite fun to enjoy before heading to the airport. Also refreshing to see another brewery with the majority of the menu being 10+% :al

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I'm having the last bottle from a batch of barleywine I brewed back in 2017.

Some people ease themselves into New Year's Eve. I am not one of those people. -(P:=::al

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Had yesterday a bottel of Kleiburg quadrupel bock (oak aged) from 2017

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Last nights lineup:

Atwater Vanilla Java Porter, coconut variant
Bells 30th Cherry Stout Reserve
Dragons Milk, hibiscus/raspberry variant (meh)
Griffin Claw Salted Caramel Pecan BA Stout
Founders KBS Espresso
Founders CBS

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Killer!! :banger

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Had my winter tasting Beersmas on Saturday and we cracked a few bottles.

Rum BA Vanilla La Nada
Confectionator
Hawaiian Honeymoon
Grand Cru Bruocsella Lambic Bio 2019
Ephesus
Courage Russian Imperial Stout (2012)
Dark Lord - Marshmallow Handjee (2017)
Wild Collection
Bourbon Barrel O.E.
Loophole Technicality
Lush Terrain
There Are Rules
Snack Attack
Hidden Pickle
Gato Reposado ‘17
Funk Yeah
Margarita Gose
Black Tuesday (2014)
Peanut Butter Jelly Crime
Darkness (2018) Barrel-Aged
Abeyance
Barrel Slayer
Bourbon Barrel-aged Marshal Zhukov’s
Bourbon Barrel Aged Popinski
Deeds & Exploits - Coffee & Vanilla
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston (season 17|18) Blend No. 57
Beer : Barrel : Time (2018)

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What the actual ****? That is ****ing epic, Hootie! :banger

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New Years Eve was a little more calm.

Endless Ending
Pabst Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee
Vanilla Big Sxxxy
Trappist Westvleteren 12 (2015)
Blue Hawaiian Sour
Pickle Juice by Four Quarters Brewing
KSR.01 (Gose)
Ryeway To Heaven
and some leftover Beer : Barrel : Time (2018) that i wanted to share with a friend.

Will remember to keep in touch Tom,. It's always later on in Dec. Love to have to come up. Plenty of stouts!

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Also having problems posting the panoramic shot.

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Panorama! Panorama!!

I actually brought a few beers (mostly CO stuff...Ben :D) to our NYE party, but none of the craft beer guys showed, so they're back at home with me. :r

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After seeing so many crossovers between whiskey and beer, this one sounds pretty interesting and relatively unique, love the attention they're giving to the history. This is going to be the first release Weldwerks is allowing proxy pickup so I think there's a good chance I won't be able to buy any (you purchase tickets ahead of time then pick up at the brewery) but still a cool idea, I'll give it a try

DOUBLE BARREL 1910 MEDIANOCHE
When Old Forester® released their 1910 bourbon in late 2018, we quickly fell in love and it has become one of our favorites. After we managed to secure a few of the casks used to produce 1910, we knew we wanted to incorporate the same double barrel technique Old Forester uses to produce their unique bourbon. The journey began by aging Medianoche in four freshly emptied 6-11 year-old Kentucky bourbon barrels for 12 months, which feature a heavy toast and light char, identical to the initial casks used for 1910. Then we racked each Medianoche bourbon barrel into a freshly emptied Old Forester 1910 barrel, which are heavily charred and lightly toasted casks used to finish mature Old Forester bourbon for six to nine months. Mirroring their process, this batch of Medianoche was finished in the 1910 barrels for nine months, resulting in over 21 months of barrel aging between the two casks.

13.5% ABV. Available in 22 oz bottles to-go for $28 each, with a limit of 2 bottles per person.

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Sounds intriguing, Ben.

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Weldworks is pretty good. That one sounds killer Ben.

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The other one they're releasing at the same time sounds pretty interesting as well:

VANILLA DESTINATIONS
As shamelessly huge fans of the folks at Bottle Logic and the amazing beers they produce, we knew we had to get a collaboration on the books when they made the trek to Greeley for the inaugural WeldWerks Invitational Festival back in June of 2018. So we decided to brew a massive Imperial Stout, combining techniques and favorite malts from both breweries, and laid it to rest in freshly emptied 8-12 year Heaven Hill bourbon barrels for 18 months. After barrel aging, we conditioned the beer on a blend of Ugandan and Fiji vanilla beans for several weeks, then finished the beer with freshly roasted Belize cacao nibs from Cultura Craft Chocolate in Denver.

13.1% ABV. Available in 22 oz bottles to-go for $32 each, with a limit of 4 bottles per person.

Gonna be an expensive day

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Opposite ends of the spectrum this past weekend:

Pliny The Younger
Crooked Stave Gift Of Time - Stout Month

This Gift Of Time release was a blend of stouts aged for 44, 45, and 46 months in heaven hill barrels. This is their third release and the best so far, first two were 24 and 36 months. I believe they partnered with Evil Twin to make the original juice, Evil Twin also collabed for their anniversary stout last year which was thick as oil and delicious as well. They're known country wide for their sours, but I think their stouts are the real jewel. Most if not all don't make it out of the taproom

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Pulled up to River North last night as they were doing last call, starting today all bars and restaurants are closed for dining/drinking in for (up to) 8 weeks. Figured for the last beer poured in Denver for the foreseeable future I should go big

2020 Barrel Aged Double Averice - aged in Knob Creek barrels

2019 version was 19+%, this year's was a much more approachable 17.4%. I had a hard time drinking more than a few ounces of the 19 stuff, but this one has a perfect amount of heat