The Bar Towel

TheSevenDuffs wrote:Had this with a friend tonight along side Grassroots Arctic Saison and both of us preferred Puncheon. This is an excellent brew!

Had the Arctic Saison when we were in Vermont, I also enjoyed the Puncheon better.

Mellow 8 year old Trois Pistoles from January 2006, still have 8 more. Definitely time to drink up this fully-matured Que/belgian ale. The spiciness has rounded out, leaving it very fruity - certainly the most long-cellared Canadian beer I've had!

This is also an amazing beer to cook with, using as you would a braising stock or a wine or port for deglazing - going to make some seared beef tenderloin, brown some shallots, simmer the deglaze with cream.

^I find it amazing how much TP improves with even as little as a year on it; I can only imagine 8 year old! I admit though that i'm not a big fan of unibroue yeastiness which I find very prominent in fresh TP, so aging makes a big difference for me, changing the beer from ok/not a favorite to delicious.

Belgian wrote:...This is also an amazing beer to cook with, using as you would a braising stock or a wine or port for deglazing - going to make some seared beef tenderloin, brown some shallots, simmer the deglaze with cream.

What time is dinner?

schomberger wrote:^I find it amazing how much TP improves with even as little as a year on it; I can only imagine 8 year old! I admit though that i'm not a big fan of unibroue yeastiness which I find very prominent in fresh TP, so aging makes a big difference for me, changing the beer from ok/not a favorite to delicious.

All Unibroue BSAs are the same fresh LOL. Aging them a bit is wise.

Though not forever. TP doesn't seem to die but I wonder if the peak of flavor is already there by four to five years and don't need to age further. I'll have a few more and see...

- update - Black Butter Porter - really nice 'porter-weight' feel to this, sessionable but has substance.

After a long day made longer by shovelling out last nights snow including a dense frozen windrow left by the plow, this GLB Lake Effect hits the spot

With Matt at his new house"

Hill Farmstead Flora (Satsuma Mandarin)
Kuhnhenn A Few Shillings Too Many
Dieu du Ciel / The Alchemist Moralité

With Distro:

Nogne 0 - Sunturn Brew
Dieu du Ciel / The Alchemist Moralité
Founders Dirty Bastard
Allagash FV 13

Founders Centennial IPA, with sauteed bits of the whole beef tenderloin I just carved up. Wow that's good.

Needed to free up space in my keg fridge so I had multiple glasses of my double ipa, until it was finished. Now a bottle of Crooked Stave Surette.

Over the last few days at Bar Hop and at home:
Bellwoods Cat Lady IPA (draught)
Black Oak Nutcracker Porter (draught)
Great Lakes Brewing Half Nelson (draught)
Lindemans Gueuze Cuvée René (bottle)
Dieu du Ciel! Aphrodisiaque (draught)
Russian River Redemption (bottle)
Sixpoint 3Beans (can)
Russian River Damnation (bottle)
Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout (bottle)

Right now:
Nickel Brook Naughty Neighbour APA

100 Mile Ale. Didn't much like this one, the body seemed too light in relation to the hop charge. Reminded me of Boundary or Alexander Keith's Cascade Hop Ale.

Gary

Over this weekend,
Jan de Lichte by Kleinbrouwerij de Glazen Toren
50/50 Eclipse 18 Yrs Old Rum Barrel
Cuvée Angelique by Kleinbrouwerij de Glazen Toren
Saison D'Erpe-Mere by Kleinbrouwerij de Glazen Toren
Myrtle by The Commons Brewery

A couple stops in with friends today had me drinking

Westbrook Gose
Midtfyns Imperial Stout
Hil Farmstead Madness & Civilization 1
DDC Moralite

'11 La Trappe Quad
'11 Unibroue Terrible
'11 Unibroue 17.

on separate nights, btw.

how were they? which got better/worse with age? (I assume they all got better)

kafercrazy wrote:'11 La Trappe Quad
'11 Unibroue Terrible
'11 Unibroue 17.

on separate nights, btw.