What beer are you drinking, Spring 2013

[Enoch]

Brewdog Tokyo (18.2%) at Flying Saucer. Kick-ass beer!!!

[BradleyC]

Tonight was another one of those nights:

Hill Farmstead - Anna, Vera Mae, and Flora

Bells - Barrel aged batch 9000

3 Floyds - Van Winkle barrel aged Darklord

Crooked Stave - Surette

Boulevard - Love Trip

Followed this up with some great whiskey. What a great night.

[stevegoz]

Fair bit of stout recently. Having some Dark Horse Plead the Fifth Imperial Stout at the brewery Thursday night, then returning to the Discomfort Inn and cracking open my first 2013 Founders KBS was quite nice. Got back home yesterday and headed straight to Binny's for a Pipeworks Citra Ninja, which lived up to the hype. Which was great, because I've had several Citra beers recently that weren't worthy of this fine hop.

Tonight was all about the cherry. Had a Zombie Killer Cherry Cyser by B. Nektar Meadery, a 2012 GI Madame Rose and a New Glarus Serendipity. Mellow misted fruits, indeed.

I'll be drinking well for the rest of the spring....

[MyOldKyDram]

Well, it ain't KBS, but having brunch w the fam and starting off w a Green Flash Double Stout.

[MyOldKyDram]

And now getting ready to go to war w some GoT Iron Throne Blonde Ale.

[stevegoz]

And now getting ready to go to war w some GoT Iron Throne Blonde Ale.

Drank my bottle during the epi this evening as well. Pretty standard, about what I expected. Wicked amount of head on it, though.

[johnm13]

country boy knotty pine. great beer.

[AaronWF]

Damn, dude. Beer road trip eh? I feel so inadequate with the lone bottle of KBS Binny's doled out to me when I happened to be free to drive over within 30 minutes of it going on sale so that they still had some when I got there... Darn beer chasers!!

Fair bit of stout recently. Having some Dark Horse Plead the Fifth Imperial Stout at the brewery Thursday night, then returning to the Discomfort Inn and cracking open my first 2013 Founders KBS was quite nice. Got back home yesterday and headed straight to Binny's for a Pipeworks Citra Ninja, which lived up to the hype. Which was great, because I've had several Citra beers recently that weren't worthy of this fine hop.

Tonight was all about the cherry. Had a Zombie Killer Cherry Cyser by B. Nektar Meadery, a 2012 GI Madame Rose and a New Glarus Serendipity. Mellow misted fruits, indeed.

I'll be drinking well for the rest of the spring....

[stevegoz]

Damn, dude. Beer road trip eh? I feel so inadequate with the lone bottle of KBS Binny's doled out to me when I happened to be free to drive over within 30 minutes of it going on sale so that they still had some when I got there... Darn beer chasers!!

[P&MLiquorsEric]

Fantome saison printemps that just arrived today. Interesting beer; smoky, funky, barnyard and unusual.

[Beer&Bourbon]

Fantome saison printemps that just arrived today. Interesting beer; smoky, funky, barnyard and unusual.

[MyOldKyDram]

Sad, but it looks like I may have missed the KBS boat around here. Came and went yesterday at the Barns apparently, and not sure if anyone else will be getting any. Maybe I'll luck out yet!

[Beer&Bourbon]

It was pretty sparse here. Party Town got 3 cases (after getting 20 cases last year). Most places had a 1 bottle limit - not worth the hunt to me for a bottle/shop. I like Bourbon county much better anyway and it's been easier to get in larger quantities in the past few years.

[P&MLiquorsEric]

None for us. We sell a fair amount of founders too. I look at brewery expansions with a critical eye nowadays. First with Bells and now founders. Both places promised more of all types of beer. Instead they expanded into more states.

[MyOldKyDram]

Having a Jolly Pumpkin La Roja to ease my suffering. Delightful.

[Beer&Bourbon]

I grabbed a bottle of KBS at Jungle Jim's last night while I was there picking up some rabbit to make rabbit stew for a bourbon county tasting tomorrow night. Also picked up a Zombie Killer - it's a cherry cyser (mead + hard cider + cherries), which was exactly what I needed last night (after a long day).

Have you aged any Jolly Pumpkin beers? I like the La Roja even more with about a year on it.

[MyOldKyDram]

I have t personally, but this one had been sitting At the store for over a year so they did the work for me!

[Clavius]

Picked up a Chimay 3-pack gift set today with the Chimay goblet along with one each of Rochefort 6, 8 and 10.

[jtexaslonestar]

Tried out some 21st Amendment IPA and Oyster Stout. Not too shabby. Cracking open a Shiner Premium now.

[MyOldKyDram]

Cheering on spring with a Bell's Oberon.

[Special Reserve]

Atwater Block Maibock. One of my spring favorites.

[Beer&Bourbon]

Opened a Manhattan Project from Quaff Brothers (The Party Source guys) last night. It's just an incredible mixture that comes as close to a cocktail as any beer I've ever had while still clearly being a beer. Great balance with enough rye and cherry with just that touch of bitters. I think it's great, but I only have 2 bottles left and they've sold out at TPS so it'll probably be a couple months before I open another one.

[AaronWF]

Yesterday with lunch I cracked a GL Eye of the Tiger IPA. Nice rye influence on this with herbal/grassy notes and a tight spice leading to bitter hops. I like the rye influence in this better than in FFF's Rye'da Tiger, but the hops can't really compare. The Rye'da is a DIPA and comes in 4% stronger, I believe, but FFF just always manages to weave that spun sugar to offset the bitter hop finish. The rye malt in EofT brings a sweetness, but it's entirely different and not as fresh tasting as FFF. Still, this is a nice IPA.

I then moved on to a 2013 KBS. This was all burnt coffee and bitter chocolate. Very much like the regular BS but with a little more body and flavors magnified. (As I understand it, the beer that becomes KBS uses more coffee and chocolate than the regular BS, no?) The bourbon influence was all but hidden behind the very forward burnt/bitter character of this; very aggressive with these dark coffee/chocolate notes, and they kind of stamped out the bourbon barrel complexity, relegating it to a cool, boozy background. Some warm, creamy vanilla started emerging as the beer warmed up, but it never reached anywhere near the warm bourbon booziness and sweet malted milk chocolate of BCBS. I was able to snag a few of these, so I hope that age tones down the bitterness and brings forth more bourbon barrel complexity.

[MyOldKyDram]

Woohoo! Scored one 4 pack of KBS today. Hey better than nothing. Got some Zombie Dust, too. Celebrating with a KBS from last year.

[BradleyC]

Thanks to one of the kind Chicago sb.com guys that we all know I am enjoying some New Glarus IIPA. Thank you sir! You are sb.com advocacy at its finest.