Here's post number two for the 5th Annual Beer Advocate Extreme Beer Fest. Find the first post here.
775. Smoke
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Surly Brewing Company
Alcohol: 9.50%
Style: Baltic Porter, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a clear, dark brown/red. Topped by a thick beige head. The aroma is smoky with a bit of maltiness and fruitiness. The flavors are malty and fruity with some light roast and a nice smokiness throughout.
From the website: "A smoked Baltic Porter that's aged in oak barrels. 9.5%"
776. Coffee Bender
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Surly Brewing Company
Alcohol: 5.10%
Style: American Brown Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Surprisingly this is a beer and not coffee, despite resembling coffee in most ways. It's clear and coffee colored, though it is carbonated whereas coffee is not. It smells like coffee, that's about all I smelled, and it tastes like a lightly sweetened cup.
From the website: "Cold Press Style-Aromatic coffee nose, creamy chocolate. Coarse ground cold steeped in Bender for 24hrs. Beans are from the Vinca Vista Hermosa plantation in Guatemala. Full City roast by Coffee & Tea Ltd., Linden Hills, Minneapolis, MN. 5.0%"
777. Kuhnhenn Fourth Dementia
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Year: 2007
Alcohol: 14.50%
Style: Old Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazy amber with a frothy, beige ring of a head. The aroma is sweet, lots of caramel. Sweet caramel notes on the palate with a pleasing, though light, tartness. The finish is lightly hoppy.
Fro the website: "Ruby red in color. Intense malt and caramel flavor, full of rich sweet melanoidins Bold hop characters abound in the fresh version, yet when aged the hops melt together with the malts. 14.5%"
778. Kuhnhenn Framboise
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Alcohol: 11.50%
Style: Fruit Beer, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a raspberry tinged brownish-red. The aroma is tart raspberries, and the flavor is much the same. Dominated by raspberries, but nice enough.
From the website: "Deep red in color, raspberries dominate in this tart treat. Malt flavor and aromas are subdued. Aged in an American oak barrel. 11.5%"
779. Kuhnhenn Tenacious Cassis
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Year: 2007
Alcohol: 14.50%
Style: Fruit Beer, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazed amber. Currants on the nose. The fruitiness of the currants is also evident on the first sip. The finish is a pulpy (what did I mean when I wrote this?), hop bitterness.
From the website: "Deep purple, black currents and red currents flavor this luscious malty beverage. Sweet fruit up front with complex malt characters in the finish. 14.5%"
780. Southern Tier Choklat
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Southern Tier Brewing Company
Alcohol: 10.00%
Style: Russian Imperial Stout, BJCP Style Guide
To say that this beer is chocolatey is an understatement. It pours an opaque black. The aroma is sweet chocolate, and the palate is dominated by sweet chocolate and complementing malts.
From the website: "Imperial Stout made using dark and bittersweet chocolate. Limited release and probably the chocolatiest beer on planet Earth. 10.0%"
781. Heudegoop
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Three Floyds Brewing Co.
Alcohol: 11.00%
Style: Wheat Wine
I had at least two samples of this one. Pours a clear copper. Aromas are a nice blend of fruit and citric hops. The malts are clean and biscuity upfront, move into a sweet fruitiness in the center before ceding to hops in the finish.
From the website: "Collaborative Wheatwine venture between Three Floyds and Danish brewer Mikkeller. 11.0%"
782. Spruce Willis
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Alcohol: 7.00%
Style: Herbed/Spiced Beer, BJCP Style Guide
I believe that I've seen this one around at fests before, but I'd never tried it. My notes on this one are minimal. It was a hazy amber with a malty aroma and palate. The finish was crisp with a lightly bitter finish.
From the website: "Malty, hoppy, dark amber ale with a hint of spruce, brewed with English Pale, Munich, and Crystal malts. Hopped exclusively with Amarillo and spruced up in the serving tank to produce a woodsy, winter warmer. 7.0%"
783. Olde School Barleywine
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Alcohol: 15.00%
Style: Style, BJCP Style Guide
The aroma and flavors are fruity. I noticed some tropical hints, though that could have been the intoxication. The finish is spicy and tart with not a huge bitterness.
From the website: "Bold, yet smooth! Fermented with dates and figs, this bone-crusher has a completely unique flavor. 15.0%"
784. Smuttynose Sour Brune
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Smuttynose Brewing Company
Alcohol: ?
Style: American Wild Ale
This beer is a bit frustrating, it's not on the fest website, and my handwriting for the name is pretty bad. It could be "Soure Brue" (best guess), it could be "Soure Brue" or even "Sour Brie" (not likely). I do know this is a real beer that's not listed on the fest website. A quick search on Rate Beer reveals that it's actually "Sour Brune." People actually give numerical ratings to beers they have at beer fests?
At any rate the notes are minimal. Sour in both aroma and flavor. I wish I had had this earlier in the fest or that I'd had less to drink at this point.
785. The Woodmaster
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Short's Brewing Company
Alcohol: 9.50%
Style: American Brown Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazy brown with a hint of amber. The aroma is light, a hint of maple syrup. The flavor is maple syrup and definite pecans.
From the website: "Imperial Brown Ale brewed with late season maple syrup and fermented with pureed pecans. 9.5%"
After leaving the beer fest we ended up at Christopher's in Porter Square for dinner. We stopped at Liquor world afterwards and picked up a few beers. Though we were pretty much done with the bulk of our drinking for the night.
786. Moinette Brune
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Brasserie Dupont
Alcohol: 8.50%
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale, BJCP Style Guide
I thought I'd had both of the Moinettes before, but I'd only had the Blonde at Boulevard in Kortrijk, Belgium. As a consequence there are no notes for this beer.
775. Smoke
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Surly Brewing Company
Alcohol: 9.50%
Style: Baltic Porter, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a clear, dark brown/red. Topped by a thick beige head. The aroma is smoky with a bit of maltiness and fruitiness. The flavors are malty and fruity with some light roast and a nice smokiness throughout.
From the website: "A smoked Baltic Porter that's aged in oak barrels. 9.5%"
776. Coffee Bender
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Surly Brewing Company
Alcohol: 5.10%
Style: American Brown Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Surprisingly this is a beer and not coffee, despite resembling coffee in most ways. It's clear and coffee colored, though it is carbonated whereas coffee is not. It smells like coffee, that's about all I smelled, and it tastes like a lightly sweetened cup.
From the website: "Cold Press Style-Aromatic coffee nose, creamy chocolate. Coarse ground cold steeped in Bender for 24hrs. Beans are from the Vinca Vista Hermosa plantation in Guatemala. Full City roast by Coffee & Tea Ltd., Linden Hills, Minneapolis, MN. 5.0%"
777. Kuhnhenn Fourth Dementia
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Year: 2007
Alcohol: 14.50%
Style: Old Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazy amber with a frothy, beige ring of a head. The aroma is sweet, lots of caramel. Sweet caramel notes on the palate with a pleasing, though light, tartness. The finish is lightly hoppy.
Fro the website: "Ruby red in color. Intense malt and caramel flavor, full of rich sweet melanoidins Bold hop characters abound in the fresh version, yet when aged the hops melt together with the malts. 14.5%"
778. Kuhnhenn Framboise
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Alcohol: 11.50%
Style: Fruit Beer, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a raspberry tinged brownish-red. The aroma is tart raspberries, and the flavor is much the same. Dominated by raspberries, but nice enough.
From the website: "Deep red in color, raspberries dominate in this tart treat. Malt flavor and aromas are subdued. Aged in an American oak barrel. 11.5%"
779. Kuhnhenn Tenacious Cassis
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Year: 2007
Alcohol: 14.50%
Style: Fruit Beer, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazed amber. Currants on the nose. The fruitiness of the currants is also evident on the first sip. The finish is a pulpy (what did I mean when I wrote this?), hop bitterness.
From the website: "Deep purple, black currents and red currents flavor this luscious malty beverage. Sweet fruit up front with complex malt characters in the finish. 14.5%"
780. Southern Tier Choklat
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Southern Tier Brewing Company
Alcohol: 10.00%
Style: Russian Imperial Stout, BJCP Style Guide
To say that this beer is chocolatey is an understatement. It pours an opaque black. The aroma is sweet chocolate, and the palate is dominated by sweet chocolate and complementing malts.
From the website: "Imperial Stout made using dark and bittersweet chocolate. Limited release and probably the chocolatiest beer on planet Earth. 10.0%"
781. Heudegoop
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Three Floyds Brewing Co.
Alcohol: 11.00%
Style: Wheat Wine
I had at least two samples of this one. Pours a clear copper. Aromas are a nice blend of fruit and citric hops. The malts are clean and biscuity upfront, move into a sweet fruitiness in the center before ceding to hops in the finish.
From the website: "Collaborative Wheatwine venture between Three Floyds and Danish brewer Mikkeller. 11.0%"
782. Spruce Willis
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Alcohol: 7.00%
Style: Herbed/Spiced Beer, BJCP Style Guide
I believe that I've seen this one around at fests before, but I'd never tried it. My notes on this one are minimal. It was a hazy amber with a malty aroma and palate. The finish was crisp with a lightly bitter finish.
From the website: "Malty, hoppy, dark amber ale with a hint of spruce, brewed with English Pale, Munich, and Crystal malts. Hopped exclusively with Amarillo and spruced up in the serving tank to produce a woodsy, winter warmer. 7.0%"
783. Olde School Barleywine
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Alcohol: 15.00%
Style: Style, BJCP Style Guide
The aroma and flavors are fruity. I noticed some tropical hints, though that could have been the intoxication. The finish is spicy and tart with not a huge bitterness.
From the website: "Bold, yet smooth! Fermented with dates and figs, this bone-crusher has a completely unique flavor. 15.0%"
784. Smuttynose Sour Brune
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Smuttynose Brewing Company
Alcohol: ?
Style: American Wild Ale
This beer is a bit frustrating, it's not on the fest website, and my handwriting for the name is pretty bad. It could be "Soure Brue" (best guess), it could be "Soure Brue" or even "Sour Brie" (not likely). I do know this is a real beer that's not listed on the fest website. A quick search on Rate Beer reveals that it's actually "Sour Brune." People actually give numerical ratings to beers they have at beer fests?
At any rate the notes are minimal. Sour in both aroma and flavor. I wish I had had this earlier in the fest or that I'd had less to drink at this point.
785. The Woodmaster
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Short's Brewing Company
Alcohol: 9.50%
Style: American Brown Ale, BJCP Style Guide
Pours a hazy brown with a hint of amber. The aroma is light, a hint of maple syrup. The flavor is maple syrup and definite pecans.
From the website: "Imperial Brown Ale brewed with late season maple syrup and fermented with pureed pecans. 9.5%"
After leaving the beer fest we ended up at Christopher's in Porter Square for dinner. We stopped at Liquor world afterwards and picked up a few beers. Though we were pretty much done with the bulk of our drinking for the night.
786. Moinette Brune
Beer Stats:
Brewery: Brasserie Dupont
Alcohol: 8.50%
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale, BJCP Style Guide
I thought I'd had both of the Moinettes before, but I'd only had the Blonde at Boulevard in Kortrijk, Belgium. As a consequence there are no notes for this beer.
Labels: Beer Fests
