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Not interested. I've had other "White Stouts" before and have never been interested in a follow up pour. I think they're just trying to capture a bigger audience with their good brand name other than stout drinkers. Good for them, they can keep it all

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I need to brew my “Dude Abides” imperial White Russian Stout again, then send you some. A white imperial with coffee, kahluah. First and only batch turned out ok. Not quite bottle bombs, but almost a geyser. :r

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Oh yea, almost forgot. Old Nation Full Earth. Bueno. :tu

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Peroni on the beach at the Jersey Shore!!!

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Wearing a Kangol? :D

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Starting with a classic — Dale’s Pale Ale. I have a few others lined up while I smoke some ribs today.

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Mickey's Big Mouth on deck? :al :dr :r

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Mickey’s and Olde English. It was a hell of a day :r

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Brewery 14: Goose Island

2017 Bourbon County Brand Stout - Coffee Variant. This was a 6am on Black Friday outside the liquor store with a hot coffee and a CORO type of purchase. I realized that I never actually cracked one of the two coffee variants I picked up that year (back when these sold out in minutes not months), so this was a good opportunity to change that. What a treat, I can't compare to this same release fresh but I can imagine based on the subtlety of the coffee and the way it whisps in with the remnants of the bourbon barrels that time has been good to this one. One of the better beers I've had so far this year :tu

It's going to be hard to drink the other bottle even though I have a feeling it's not going to get too much better, I've had 5 year old BCBS Coffee before and while good the coffee was mostly gone. It can't be directly compared because that was a different year, a different batch of coffee and a whole different recipe I presume but at some point it will be mostly gone

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Love it when their variants work, Ben. Sounds delish. The 2019 variants were a mixed bag.

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Agree completely

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Still need to try the Double Barrel Stout, Proprietor’s and 2-Year Reserve.
The 2018 Wheatwine was a little better and the Reserve Rye was fantastic!

The Café de Olla Stout and Mon Chéri were good but fell a little short compared to some of the past.

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They almost seemed like afterthoughts and they just threw some stuff in the barrels at the end. I know that's not the case but it seemed like they were missing the love. I only have one of the Rye and cracked it yet, I'll get there one day

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https://i.imgur.com/c2Ivn9x.jpg

Had a Denver based stout that was aged in rye barrels for my first Fourth libation, thanks to Ben. Great subtle rye notes and great mouthfeel (phrasing) on this one. Thank you Ben! :D :tu

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Picked up a 4 pack of Founders, Marvelroast. And imperial golden ale, with cocoa nibs, coffee and milk sugar. Outstanding beer.

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Golden Ales aren't generally my thing, but that sounds interesting Bob. Well, and it's Founders.... :dr

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Same here, Tom. It also has vanilla in it. Worth picking up if you see it around.

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Lots of good beer over the weekend from Tree House and Trillium, mostly IPAs since they only had a couple darker things in stock. Picked up a fancy bottle of stout aged in Port barrels from Trillium, not usually my thing but with the lack of dark options and the fact that I wanted a fancy Trillium bottle (usually only get cans from there) I had to get it. Beautiful printing and artwork

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Went to Three Floyds this weekend and got some mix bags plus variants and a case of 2018 GI Prop just landed. Might need to crack on of them soon.

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Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale. Although it seems at least a month early for pumpkin beers I’d rather drink this fresh and this is when these come out. :sh

It’s tasty, despite the lack of seasonality.

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Old Nation M-43 Tart Strawberry.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCY6xAsmaes

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Homebrew, as usual. Tonight it's an Irish Red Ale.

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:r

Switched to Flying Dog The Fear, although I prefer the Hog :dr

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Local beer here........ Christian Moerlein sampler with Big Hazy, OTR and Third Wave IPA being really quite good.

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River North released a new triple IPA, went on Saturday to get a taste, also got a pour of their new Vanilla Bourbon Barrel Mr. Sandman... which I had a couple weeks ago when it came out but wanted more :al

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Shared a few beers this weekend.
2020 Holy Mountain Hand of Glory, 2020 Anchorage Brewing A Deal With the Devil Double Oaked, Modern Times Coffee Cake: Double Vanilla, Cigar City Toddy & Sap, Cigar City Stakhanov's Barleywine, Straight Jacket Revolution

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Clown Shoes Rainbows are Real, Lone Pine Space Metal Dinosaur, Flying Goose Long Brothers IPA

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I've liked some Clown Shoes releases, Julian, what style is the Rainbows are Real?

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Got tickets for Saturday's FRAFOGB session, wanted to do the other one too but $100/person adds up, and there were a few too many repeats and similar looking stuff to pull it off

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Quite the lineup, Ben, you should have a blast!

...if you remember it.... :D

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Hazy IPA, sorry Tom!
Not drinking much beyond IPAs of one variety or another these days...

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https://i.imgur.com/JDgNjHz.gif

;) :lr

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Saturday was a success

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Did you drink that all, Ben? :)

Had a bourbon tasting at a local guys' house yesterday afternoon, lotsa pours there too. Good stuff all leading up to Pappy 15 year, which might not even have been my favorite pour of the session.

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Lone Pine Diamond Unicorn
Ten Bends Northern Heights

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I drank some of all of them, and all of all the good ones :tu :al

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My man. :cool:

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Got a 2020 Prop Day Full Package shipping to me next month. Look forward to trying them out.

2x 2020 Proprietor’s Bourbon County Stout
1x 2020 Prop Days Exclusive BA Stout
1x 2020 Bourbon County Stout Special #4
1x Prop Days 2020 commemorative snifter

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Hell of a lineup! Still trying to decide what to do for black friday this year, I like waiting in line to get whatever the most limited one we get that year (I just go 1-2 hours before they open and smoke a cigar) but it also sucked seeing all the other variants on the shelf for weeks/months other places, some still are. I'll probably still do it this year unless there's somewhere selling good bourbon somewhere else in town

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Gave Doomsday Clock a try the other day, this is from Crooked Stave along the lines of their Gift of Time series. Freaky long aging terms using a high quality stout (I think Evil Twin was involved but I forget where I heard that). This is the first with adjuncts but they weren't too noticeable, thick as oil and delicious :dr

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Mast Landing Neon Sails

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Went up to Three Floyds on Sunday to get my DL packs also waiting on my GI Prop package to arrive.

Picked up some tasty ipas from Triptych on the way home.

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Upper Pass Love Seat
Frost Plush
Lagunitas Sucks

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Opened up a fun one last night, drank one of these fresh in 2016 and thought it was a solid stout with just a little too much blueberry, so I bought two more to cellar. Cracked the first of them after 4 years, the blueberry was pushed to the side and the chocolate and vanilla started to shine. On the finish everything mixed together in a bazaar minty taste, not bad but incredibly unique. Can't wait to try the other in a few years

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I remember trying that years ago. Can't remember if I dug it or not.

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Picked up some BCBS Friday morning then came home and decided I wasn't leaving the house the rest of the day, so I went through this guy. It was fun to drink, it kept the booziness as under control as you can for a 22%+ beer, I've had less that are harder to drink but it's not something I could see myself buying again

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22%?! :eek: That's outrageous! I thought the Avery Mephistopheles I had at 19% a few years ago was crazy. :D

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River North's first release of Double Avarice was 19.5% and tough to get down, their second release was 17.5% and significantly better. Not a lot of people can make the really high stuff and have it be good, at that point it's like a science experiment, but Avery is certainly one of them in my opinion :dr

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Although that Mephistopheles tasted like somebody poured 3 oz of bourbon into my 12 oz beer. :lr

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I mean... yeah that's going to happen, look at the ABV