Here is a list I compiled as a beer bucket list. IE: beers I want to try before I get 86ed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term) I know rarity doesn’t mean quality. I’ve said it time and time again. I like average "B" rated beers, but these beers do happen to be tough to find or not available to Georgia. May I present…
THE BEER BUCKET LIST! (no particular order)
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Dark Lord aged in brandy barrels
Dark Lord aged in Pappy Van Winkle 23 year barrels
Dark Lord de Muerte, DL aged in bourbon barrels with ancho and guajillo peppers
Dark Lord aged in brandy barrels with vanilla beans
Old Rabbits Foot - COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION :One third of the wort used to make this splendid stout came from each of three North Carolina Breweries: Olde Hickory Brewery, The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, and Foothills Brewing. These were combined and aged in very rare 23 year old bourbon barrels. Olde Rabbit’s Foot Imperial Stout is rich and complex; as satisfying to drink as it was to make. We three craft brewers hope you will enjoy the very special Stout as much as we have.Brewed with honey and with cocoa nibs added and aged in 23 year old Pappry Van Winkle barrels.
Struise – Dirty Horse - COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION: Starting with a Lambic grist bill composed of 70% barley malt and 30% unmalted wheat. No yeast was artificially added to the wort, but was exposed for two days to the open air in one of our plastic tunnels at the Noordhoek Ostrich Farm. First fermentation took place in second hand sherry oak casks for six weeks. 200 grams of Northern cherries per litre and the Roeseleire yeast strain were added after six months, provoking a new fermentation process. Eight months later, we pumped over the young ale to oak casks and let it mature for another 3 years. This project was realized after a tasting of the same recipe Urbain once made 20 years ago and was barrel aging in his garage in De Panne eversince and while he was in Africa and forgot all about it. As this is a very limited version, this ale will not be suitable for export but rather for sale at the farm when available.
The Bruery Black Tuesday: Same deal as Dark Lord: Brewery only released once a year. Very limited quantities and very high trade and ebay value. The Bruery says: Black Tuesday, our barrel aged stout, created quite a stir at our humble brewery amassing an unexpected response from craft beer lovers around the nation. It didn't come as a huge surprise that people were in love with our deep, dark, rich and nearly 20% abv beer that ages in bourbon barrels for well over a year, but the instantaneous success of the beer was definitely a shock. We thank you for that response and we are excited for Black Tuesday to come again.
This year, in order to quell the 4 hour line
around our facilities and refrain from having numerous people driving hundreds
of miles to The Bruery just to walk away empty handed, we are changing the way
we run our Black Tuesday release event, hopefully to the benefit of everyone.
Please read the details below CAREFULLY and you just might find yourself at a
fantastic event on the final Tuesday of October, celebrating craft beer, the
Great and New Recessions, and of course, The Bruery's Black Tuesday.
On September 1st at 9am PST, tickets to our
Black Tuesday release party will be available for purchase online. The party
will take place on October 26th in 2 sessions; 5:30 to 7:30 pm and 8 to 10 pm.
Russian River Pliny the Elder: The epitome of west coast IPA COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION Pliny the Elder was a Roman naturalist, scholar, historian, traveler, officer, and writer. Although not considered his most important work, Pliny and his contemporaries created the botanical name for hops, "lupus Salictarius", meaning wolf among scrubs." Hops at that time grew wild among willows, much like a wolf in the forest. Later the current botanical name, humulus Lupulus, was adopted. Pliny died in 79 AD while observing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He was immortalized by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, who continued his uncle’s legacy by documenting much of what he observed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder, the beer, is brewed with 40% more malt and over twice the amount of hops as compared to our already hoppy IPA.
Lost Abbey Cable Car COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION: You’ve made it to 547 Haight Street. This destination is more San Francisco than Rice A Roni, Chinatown, and Lombard Street combined. Welcome to Broadway for brewers everywhere. Everyone who is anyone has poured their kegs here. For the last 20 years, this place has launched careers, confirmed legacies, and since 1987 the only name you need to know is David Keene. Take a seat. Tip Strong. Nod appreciatively and don’t ask stupid questions. Welcome to Big Daddy’s House known to most simply as "The T-Room." Here the bartenders are fluent in English, German, Flemish, French, Waloon and Czech. But they’re most know for their American Lip Service. Watch it. The lady with the jet black hair behind the bar eats idiots for lunch. At 547 Haight Street, you won’t find any Cable Cars except for this one. But if you’re standing outside the Dutch Doors of the World Famous Toranado, you surly found the most interesting place in all San Francisco. Its’ about RESPECT. Dave you continue to have ours. Here’s to 20 more years of punishing livers everywhere. Cheers Gina, Jim, Tomme, Vince and the Brewers of Port Brewing
Great Divide Barrel aged Yetti COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION: Barrel Aged Yeti Imperial Stout has been aged for 20 months in used barrels from Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, Colorado’s only whiskey maker. The rich and robustly roasted beer of 12.2% ABV and 75 International Bittering Units (IBUs) picks up flavors of oak, vanilla and whiskey through the extended aging process. These flavors add greater complexity to the already rich beer, while tempering its assertive nature. – release limited to 470 bottles –
Cigar City’s Hunahpu COMMERCAL DESCRIPTION: In Mayan myth, Hunahpu gave cocoa to the Mayans. The base recipe is Marshal Zhukov Imperial Stout. It is aged on pasilla and ancho peppers as well as vanilla, cinnamon and cocoa nibs.
New Holland Moxie - Wild ale brewed with sour cherries COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
10th Anniversary Beer. Limited to 424 bottles. So what is Moxie? It’s the skill and courage to make great beers season after season, year after year. It’s also a beer that gives a swift kick in the taste buds, on behalf of our brewers. Moxie keeps us going. Cheers to the next 10 years of great beer. Cheers to the fans and team which makes it all possible. Thanks for a great decade in beer and an even greater journey.
De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis (Wild Turkey Barrel) – Described as: silky, velvety, thick and fatty with just a mild carbonation to keep it from being too cloying. Soothing alcohol. Complex flavors and aromas include plum, raisins, sherry, port wine, whiskey, dark chocolate, tobacco, oak, char and tar. Rich caramel-molasses sweetness with a hint of vanilla in the back
