Ohbarleywine
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Curious to see how many other people on here participated this year, and what all of your thoughts were. Let's go!
You first?Curious to see how many other people on here participated this year, and what all of your thoughts were. Let's go!
When it takes balls to open some beers. What a time to be alive.I really don't know of anyone who has been ballsy enough to crack open a box set.
Well, If you have had previous batches at different points in the aging process, you know they are much much better with a few years on them. There are plenty of double oaked bottles to open, I think most save the variants for a few years, seeing as you only get one of each. But that's just me.When it takes balls to open some beers. What a time to be alive.
When the line started moving, it was painfully slow, and watching ******** buy up every last bottle of cognac was a little disheartening, but it was their first time doing a release like this, and I don't really fault them for anything other than not putting a limit on cognac cases.
****, my subjective opinion: DwaD is hot no matter how long you age it, and cognac barrel stuff is always hot (like all ~5 examples I've had, not exactly well versed), so cognac DwaD sounds like pounding rubbing alcohol.
Sorry maybe I'm a moron but... isn't "regular" ADwtD (aka any version most of us have probably had) cognac aged
****, my subjective opinion: DwaD is hot no matter how long you age it, and cognac barrel stuff is always hot (like all ~5 examples I've had, not exactly well versed), so cognac DwaD sounds like pounding rubbing alcohol. I'll just keep banging CWbbbw for $4 a bottle. . .
Sorry maybe I'm a moron but... isn't "regular" ADwtD (aka any version most of us have probably had) cognac aged
Aging is about a lot more than heat dying down.... CW is great too, but that's not what we're talking about here, is it. And while I love CW more than most, I certainly wouldn't fly to Wisconsin and wait in line to get it.
Alcohol heat story checks out.
Actually CW is what we're talking about. I brought it up in comparison, you responded, and now I'm still talking about it.
I could argue that oxidation and loss of carbonation aren't really big improvements to a barleywine, but people age beers for a lot of different reasons I guess.
Of course you wouldn't fly to get CW, thereby lending some corroboration to my point about perceptions of non essential items based on effort and ease of availability. This story checks out too.
I think slight oxidization and loss of carbonation are key elements, but I also feel like the different elements of the flavors fall back/come forward over time. It's always going to be hot, it's a big beer. Barleywine is my favorite kind of beer though, so heat doesn't really bother me. ADWTD is a much more complex beer, and a beer I've had many many times in the past and am quite fond of, enough to make me want to make the trip. I still love that CW though. I have a 4 pack at all times. So damn good.
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