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Our First Ever K-W Tasting

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Our First Ever K-W Tasting

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So a group of K-W Bartowelers got together for the first time this past weekend for a tasting - thought some of you might have wanted to check out what we had:


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It was a successful night ! (sorry about the glaring flash pics and the messy floor, I took this at 230am and was well past due for bed)
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Is that a growler of Rebellion in the background I see? Those were the days....

P.S. What's the one between Mikkeller and Oktoberfest? Homebrew?
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Nice one Jeff. 2:30am - sounds like it was a good time.
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Is that a growler of Rebellion in the background I see? Those were the days....
Yeah, it was a freebie promo at my University pub that I acquired in the late 90's...all we had to do was order a pitcher of Upper Canada Dark! We had a lot of growlers (unfortunately they did not fill them).
P.S. What's the one between Mikkeller and Oktoberfest? Homebrew?
Yes, Matt (matt7215 I think is his handle here) brought his fantastic well hopped Imperial Stout. It was not out of place with all of the other outstanding Imperial Stouts we had that night.
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Cool. Looks like you had a good turnout!

Nice growler too... I think the Rebellion Ale was my first introduction to the cascade hop. It was sort of my gateway beer. I was sad when they axed it & kept the lager.
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I never got to try the ale; when I got into craft brews, only the lager was available, which was a bit of a gateway for me as well.

We had 6 people for the tasting, which was a great number, although we had some pretty damn strong beers and could have used an extra liver or two for the big bottles :)
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What about the turned around Hockley? Imperial homebrew as well?

I'd love to have a sample of homebrews that don't taste out of place standing next to such an amazing beer line up as you had there.
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What about the turned around Hockley? Imperial homebrew as well?
No that was Brasserie du Lievre La Blanche a L’abinthe – 1L - one of the guys had been to Quebec recently and brought back some stuff no one had tried.
I'd love to have a sample of homebrews that don't taste out of place standing next to such an amazing beer line up as you had there.
Yeah, big credit goes to Matt for that, I was really surprised just how good that stout was - but you needed to like your Cascade hops (which I do) - it was very aggressively hopped!
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It's a shame you didn't have anything any good. :roll:
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Impressive array of bottles, I can see people shared some of their best stuff.

Doesn't your sense of taste get tired after five or six samples?
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Doesn't your sense of taste get tired after five or six samples?
Not when you have a good number of people sampling and not when you mix up the styles, as we did, I find.
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tupalev wrote:sorry about the glaring flash pics and the messy floor
Yeah... the first thing I noticed was how messy your floor was. :wink:
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Nice tasting guys! Good turnout and excellent samples.

I'd love to start up something in the London area, but there simply aren't any BTers around me.
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the first thing I noticed was how messy your floor was.
I guess after I stared at the beer for a while, I noticed the popcorn .. :D
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Always good to see Trois Mousquitaires Oktoberfest Rousse
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