What're you drinking right now?

Kekumba · Post by **Kekumba** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 8:22 pm

It's holding up quite well. Rich dark chocolate, still a bit boozy (and slightly acidic).

Just a 3F Geuze tonight. Great as usual, though I've had some pretty oaky bottles from this 11/15/12 batch.

midlife crisis · Post by **midlife crisis** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:54 pm

Well, it was really good for the first few years, is my recollection. As I said, though, the few I have left have not really showed any staying power and have faded. Edit: though I just saw the comment above - maybe the bottle I opened recently was an aberration. Will try another; I think I have one or two left.

It would be interesting to compare it, at its peak, to some of the excellent Impy stouts now coming out from Bellwoods, Great Lakes and Nickel Brook. It was such a novelty at the time, with the added fun of taking delivery out of Perry's trunk and getting the little certificate of authenticity that he made up, that it's hard to objectively remember just how good the beer was. For me, anyway.

TheBeeraholic · Post by **TheBeeraholic** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:20 am

TheSevenDuffs wrote: Should have my bottles in the next little while and I am really looking forward to trying it...

You'll have your bottles within an hour!

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:46 pm

Like many of you, I'm sure Founders Porter.

Awesome, awesome, awesome!

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:47 pm

Amsterdam Vicars Vice

G.M. Gillman · Post by **G.M. Gillman** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:37 pm

1) At Volo, a half pint of its Eastside IPA. This beer, while still an APA in my view, has a richer malt sweetness than many IPAs and just goes down well. This was the draft (chilled, fizzy) vs. draught (hand pump) version sometimes available. However, it was fairly unfiltered and full of flavour.

2) A special edition cask IPA from Six Pints Brewing on Victoria Street. This is their regular IPA, primed and dry-hopped with Chinook and served cask-conditioned. I was told it is kept at room temperature for about three weeks before tapping. The spiled cask sits on the counter with a jacket to keep cool and is drawn by a hand-turned valve, what they called thumb-taps in England. This impressed a lot, it was much better than the regular IPA with a rounded, appetizing taste and went down like nobody's business. Even a big new beer like their Baltic Porter paled before this emblematic cask pale ale, IMO.

Gary

The Mick · Post by **The Mick** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:05 pm

Drinking a bottle of Bellwoods Stay Classy, in honour of the Anchorman 2 release today... don't act like you're not impressed.

kafercrazy · Post by **kafercrazy** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:18 am

2011 La Fin Du Monde
Uni 17 ... fresh.

lister · Post by **lister** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:38 am

G.M. Gillman wrote:2) A special edition cask IPA from Six Pints Brewing on Victoria Street. This is their regular IPA, primed and dry-hopped with Chinook and served cask-conditioned. I was told it is kept at room temperature for about three weeks before tapping. The spiled cask sits on the counter with a jacket to keep cool and is drawn by a hand-turned valve, what they called thumb-taps in England. This impressed a lot, it was much better than the regular IPA with a rounded, appetizing taste and went down like nobody's business. Even a big new beer like their Baltic Porter paled before this emblematic cask pale ale, IMO.

I tried that yesterday. If anyone is in the neighbourhood it's worth stopping in for.

ritzkiss · Post by **ritzkiss** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:45 am

Last night,

Bellwoods Grognard
Collective Arts Rhyme & Reason
Trois Mousquetaires Gose
Deschutes Black Butte

Been a long time since I had the BB, but was a little let down with it, not much roast complexity to it, a little over carbed and thin in the body. Not bad, but still highlighting my desire for a regularly available, kickass, straight-up porter.

NRman · Post by **NRman** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:36 pm

Founders Breakfast Stout - from Michigan via our cellar as opposed to the LCBO who seems to have deemed only GTA residents as fit to purchases it. Yeah that's right I am shitty and besides as far as i am concerned it's drunkard hour on BT!!! Cheers!! Awesome beer! Tuck Foronto!

Kish84 · Post by **Kish84** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:50 am

Tonight with JB84, and J343MY, the homebrews (apart from the 1st 2) may be in the wrong place.

Jeremy's IPA - Galaxy and Nelson Sauvin (This would make my Top 10 beers of the year list)
Jeremy's Flanders Red
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Natale
Jeremy's Imperial Stout w/ mulato chiles, ceylon cinnamon, and cocoa nibs
3F Intense Red
Jeremy's Barleywine
Evil Twin Even More Jesus
Anchorage Darkest Hour
Hill Farmstead/Fantome 5 Sciences
Brewdog Dog A
Founders KBS
Mikkeller AK Alive
Bellwoods Donkey Venom

FEUO · Post by **FEUO** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:05 pm

About 7 hrs ago (yes, 8am)... Kuhnhenn Cherry Oud Bruin and their 2011 Barleywine. Hit Winter Solstice party at Kuhnhenn very early today.

heebes · Post by **heebes** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:48 pm

Bellwoods Stay Classy
Bellwoods Boogie Monster

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:34 pm

Nickel Brook Old Kentucky Bastard.. blah, why did I buy 3 bottles of this.