What're you drinking right now?

Garthicus · Post by **Garthicus** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:27 am

Holy crap - your selection today is amazing!

BooBoo · Post by **BooBoo** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:28 pm

2 x Southern Tier Gemini

G.M. Gillman · Post by **G.M. Gillman** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:26 pm

Samuel Adams Noble Pils. A very fine German-style pils, with a prominent, complex hop bill, apparently all German or Czech, 5 kinds blended. Some good metallic/citric/light funky/Riesling-like notes from the various hop components. Good smooth malt character too but on the dry side, more North or East German than Bavarian. One of the best pils beers I've ever had.

Gary

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:05 pm

Last night grub, viggo, ritzkis and sstackho came over to my place and we did a blind imperial stout tasting, accompanies with some trult awesome food. I did the pouring, and my blindness only came later in the evening when I was blind drunk. Beers were scored out of 10 by each of the guys, and these were the results:

Driftwood Singularity 34.2
BA Boris 32.6
Smuttynose Imperial Stout 32.4
St Ambroise RIS 32
Nightstalker 32.
Darkness 31.9
Storm King 31.5
BA Blackout 31.4
Ballast Point Imperial Stout 31.4
Yeti 31.1
Ipswich Choate Bridge (a magnum!) 29.3
Black Damnation 28.7
St Bock Enigma 28.3
Middle Ages Dragonslayer 28.2
Abyss 28
Nogne O 24
Darklord 23.9

Followed by BA Plead the 5th and Rogue XS after the competition ended. The Abyss was from the 09 batch and had some of the wild character that ended up in that beer.

Singluarity was amazing.

boney · Post by **boney** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:45 pm

Gouden Carolous Cuvee Van De Keizer Rood 2009. It's too bad that this gets overshadowed by the Blauw, because it is a simply stunnng beer. Liquid candy.

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:03 pm

Bobsy wrote:Last night grub, viggo, ritzkis and sstackho came over to my place and we did a blind imperial stout tasting, accompanies with some trult awesome food. I did the pouring, and my blindness only came later in the evening when I was blind drunk. Beers were scored out of 10 by each of the guys, and these were the results:

Driftwood Singularity 34.2
BA Boris 32.6
Smuttynose Imperial Stout 32.4
St Ambroise RIS 32
Nightstalker 32.
Darkness 31.9
Storm King 31.5
BA Blackout 31.4
Ballast Point Imperial Stout 31.4
Yeti 31.1
Ipswich Choate Bridge (a magnum!) 29.3
Black Damnation 28.7
St Bock Enigma 28.3
Middle Ages Dragonslayer 28.2
Abyss 28
Nogne O 24
Darklord 23.9

Followed by BA Plead the 5th and Rogue XS after the competition ended. The Abyss was from the 09 batch and had some of the wild character that ended up in that beer.

Singluarity was amazing.

Was that Viggo's Ipswich Choate Bridge? Surprised to see the Darklord "last"!

Man, I miss those epic Toronto Tastings

S. St. Jeb · Post by **S. St. Jeb** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:04 pm

Had a Trafalgar Maple Bock this afternoon. First maple beer I've ever tried; generally did not expect to like this type too much, although I certainly enjoy other "flavoured" beers such as fruit beers, tea beers etc. This one pretty much met my expectation. Not my favourite type, but for what it is intended to be, I thought it was pretty good. Better than one would expect based on ohther postings I've read about Trafalgar.

Jon Walker · Post by **Jon Walker** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:16 am

That stout tasting sounds amazing!

Upright Oyster Stout
Tree Captivator Doppelbock

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:22 am

Last night at Gambrinus:

Driftwood Old Cellar Dweller Barley Wine (Thanks Dan!)
Flying Monkeys Riley Wine 18 % Barley Wine
Founder's Red Rye (Thanks Adil!)
Black Oak Summer Saison
Rolling Rock

ritzkiss · Post by **ritzkiss** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:38 am

Bobsy wrote:Last night grub, viggo, ritzkis and sstackho came over to my place and we did a blind imperial stout tasting, accompanies with some trult awesome food. I did the pouring, and my blindness only came later in the evening when I was blind drunk. Beers were scored out of 10 by each of the guys, and these were the results:

Driftwood Singularity 34.2
BA Boris 32.6
Smuttynose Imperial Stout 32.4
St Ambroise RIS 32
Nightstalker 32.
Darkness 31.9
Storm King 31.5
BA Blackout 31.4
Ballast Point Imperial Stout 31.4
Yeti 31.1
Ipswich Choate Bridge (a magnum!) 29.3
Black Damnation 28.7
St Bock Enigma 28.3
Middle Ages Dragonslayer 28.2
Abyss 28
Nogne O 24
Darklord 23.9

Followed by BA Plead the 5th and Rogue XS after the competition ended. The Abyss was from the 09 batch and had some of the wild character that ended up in that beer.

Singluarity was amazing.

Singularity was superb, lots of yummy barrel on it. I rated BA Blackout as my 2nd - I guess I love the barrels. I am also surprised to see Dark Lord on the bottom - in my opinion, the Nogne O was my obvious last place finisher, especially in comparison to many of those beers. Too bad the 2009 Abyss was infected (reminded me of Jolly Pumpkin) because that is one of my favorites and I would have loved to see how it did. Thanks for hosting Bobsy!

mgmoney · Post by **mgmoney** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:48 am

Had 1 of my last 2 Tree Double IPA Hope Head...and some Sam Adams Noble Pils to start the night...Yummy to Tree...cant believe there is none to be had anywhere in LCBO ville...oh well...

Jon Walker · Post by **Jon Walker** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:03 pm

SteelbackGuy wrote:Last night at Gambrinus:

Driftwood Old Cellar Dweller Barley Wine (Thanks Dan!)
Flying Monkeys Riley Wine 18 % Barley Wine
Founder's Red Rye (Thanks Adil!)
Black Oak Summer Saison
Rolling Rock

Damn! Did you drink them in that order?

grub · Post by **grub** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:48 pm

Torontoblue wrote:Was that Viggo's Ipswich Choate Bridge? Surprised to see the Darklord "last"!

the choate was mine, though eric did open one at his place a while back. i've got another magnum from them (whipple house old ale) that i need to crack one of these days. tribute went into the first one, and i've got a couple now that i can throw some crazy homebrew into.

yeah, i think we were all surprised to see it place last. i'm not sure we can trust our math skills at that point though... perhaps they're all wrong!

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:10 pm

Nugget Nectar, followed much much later by hopfenstark Greg

sstackho · Post by **sstackho** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:15 pm

grub wrote: yeah, i think we were all surprised to see it place last. i'm not sure we can trust our math skills at that point though... perhaps they're all wrong!

The Dark Lord was very strong and sweet. I'm not surprised to see it listed at 15% ABV. Obviously, we prefer Imperial Stout Lites (at 10-12%)!