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I have had a few different beers now that are brewed in liquor barrels. One was something in Gin barrels, and then I just bout a special beer from Knee Deep, it was their Hop Deranged brewed in Jack Daniels barrels. Shit was absolutely undrinkable. I am not sure how you guys handle that, but to me the flavor of the liquor was so overwhelming, it completely destroyed the beer flavor.

Never again.
 
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Damn, I am drinking the cherry stout right now and rye on rye is in the fridge. I didn't see the green label imperial stout in the store, did that not make it back this year?
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I think all of the Imperial Stouts in 2015 are special flavors...they had the coffee one, this tart cherry one. I think they were supposed to have a Rum one, but I never saw it, and theres a 4th that I don't know what it'll be. Here was the boulevard plan for 2015 as of the start of the year(not sure how close they stuck to it)

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They have 4-packs of the Collaboration #5(with Cigar city brewing from Florida) on shelves right now, picked it up last night along with the Imperial Cherry Tart. I've purchased all the specialties so far this year except the Love Child #5(I don't like sour beers). The Imperial Stout Coffee was a collaboration with the Roasterie here in KC, it was pretty good.

edit- it looks like they might be done(for now) with just their normal Imperial Stout. 2016 has no plan for one, just 1 specialty flavor of it towards the end of the year

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Ameraves_sl said:
I have had a few different beers now that are brewed in liquor barrels. One was something in Gin barrels, and then I just bout a special beer from Knee Deep, it was their Hop Deranged brewed in Jack Daniels barrels. Shit was absolutely undrinkable. I am not sure how you guys handle that, but to me the flavor of the liquor was so overwhelming, it completely destroyed the beer flavor.

Never again.
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Brewing or aging, as those are different things (and to brew in a barrel you need to do a decoction mash and that's really fucking intensive to do, yet somehow Sam Adam does it).

Sometimes the liquor tastes are incredibly strong, and it's like drinking a thicker version of whatever-barrel-it-was-aged-in, other times it's really mellow and adds a bunch of depth or flavors. It's also a matter of preference for the drinker: my brother-in-law and I were drinking at a festival, and we both got the bourbon-barrel-aged darkness. I loved it with it's incredibly sweetness with some booze backbone to the normal RIS flavors, and he said it tasted like sweetened bourbon.
 
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I went out to see if anyone local was carrying that Boulevard tart cherry imperial ... no joy.

The only flavor of it I could find was Aztec Chocolate but I grabbed it to try anyway. Really wanna find that tart cherry though. Gonna hit up a couple more places tomorrow.
 
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Interesting, I never saw the Aztec Chocolate around here at all.

Then again, around here if you don't hit the local liquor stores within a day or two of a special release, it's gone. None of them sit on the shelf for more than a day or two(if they even make it to the shelf)
 
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Ameraves_sl said:
I have had a few different beers now that are brewed in liquor barrels. One was something in Gin barrels, and then I just bout a special beer from Knee Deep, it was their Hop Deranged brewed in Jack Daniels barrels. Shit was absolutely undrinkable. I am not sure how you guys handle that, but to me the flavor of the liquor was so overwhelming, it completely destroyed the beer flavor.

Never again.
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Bourbon-barrel or rum-barrel aged beers are easily my favorites. If done correctly, they are an absolute masterpiece. For a readily available beer, Dragon's Milk is amazing for something that can be picked up year-round. But I do agree, if its a major brewer that is doing it just because it's the "cool thing" now, it can be pretty unbearable.

Gin beer would be very, very odd. But Gin is not distilled in a barrel though, it is pot-stilled, so there must be a different method at work here than barrel.
 
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Brewing or aging, as those are different things (and to brew in a barrel you need to do a decoction mash and that's really fucking intensive to do, yet somehow Sam Adam does it).

Sometimes the liquor tastes are incredibly strong, and it's like drinking a thicker version of whatever-barrel-it-was-aged-in, other times it's really mellow and adds a bunch of depth or flavors. It's also a matter of preference for the drinker: my brother-in-law and I were drinking at a festival, and we both got the bourbon-barrel-aged darkness. I loved it with it's incredibly sweetness with some booze backbone to the normal RIS flavors, and he said it tasted like sweetened bourbon.
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Oh yeah my bad, I meant aged in, not brewed in. But yeah, both were pretty much undrinkable.
 
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I really, really like Lefthand Brewing. Milk and Imperial stouts, oh my.

I did get a sampler case a while back, and that was probably the only bad experience with them. Was skunky asFUCK.The entire case, too, was strange.
 
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Lefthand makes my favorite milk stout. Not the Nitro. I tried that once thinking it would be as good as their regular milk stout but it was really bleh. Unfortunately I haven't seen their regular one round for some time.

I tried another Rodenbach, the 2012 Vintage. Not as good as the Caract?re Rouge. More of a wine-like flavor which didn't take the edge off of the sourness as well as the cherry of the Rouge. I need a few more bottles of that stuff to save for later, if I can muster the willpower to leave 'em alone.
 
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Lefthand makes my favorite milk stout. Not the Nitro. I tried that once thinking it would be as good as their regular milk stout but it was really bleh. Unfortunately I haven't seen their regular one round for some time.

I tried another Rodenbach, the 2012 Vintage. Not as good as the Caract?re Rouge. More of a wine-like flavor which didn't take the edge off of the sourness as well as the cherry of the Rouge. I need a few more bottles of that stuff to save for later, if I can muster the willpower to leave 'em alone.
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Leaving bottles along that age well is my biggest weak point for beer....
 
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Stopped in to a one of the grocers I don't normally shop at this morning and they had some Weihenstephaner Kristall. It's been probably two years since I've had any. Gonna be a good fuckin' day.
 
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I got a growler of Great Lakes Honey Ale at the store and it is pretty interesting. It starts off tasting almost like an IPA. Really hoppy with no honey flavor. But then after maybe 20 seconds or so the honey flavor starts to build up in your mouth and it finishes off almost like a mead. It was a very unique beer.
 
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I don't understand that law about requiring a distributor at all. It really doesn't make any sense at all.
 
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A lot of shit regulations around this country don't make sense. Kinda like tesla not being able to sell their fucking cars in most states
 
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Hooray lobbyists! Pretty much any industry that makes a LOT of money is going to have quite a few laws and regulations in place that make competition against whoever is currently in charge VERY difficult

alcohol/beer industry, auto industry, cable television, etc.
 
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I don't think there was an industry with large, influential players when those distribution laws went into place were there?

The requirement makes no sense at all if you're going to allow manufacturers to own distributers as subsidiaries. That is where the regulatory capture has been allowed to happen. Either make the requirement iron clad to prevent any self-distribution or get rid of the regulation altogether (which they should, it's antiquated).
 
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