Well, when reading about it, I noted that RateBeer awarded it a score of 100%.
My own personal opinion is that it is better than both KBS (which is excellent), and Curmudgeon's Better Half (which is superb).
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Well, when reading about it, I noted that RateBeer awarded it a score of 100%.
My own personal opinion is that it is better than both KBS (which is excellent), and Curmudgeon's Better Half (which is superb).
Well, both RateBeer and BeerAdvocat tend to be relatively well regarded in the beer world; now, I don't regard their ratings as something due the worship accorded to precepts written on tablets of stone, but I do read reviews.
Actually, I read book reviews, theatre reviews, restaurant reviews, and so on (even movie reviews), and, if an aggregate score of 100% has been awarded, I have to conclude that people other than myself hold this beverage in high esteem.
In any case, last week-end, I ran compare and contrast competitive side-by-side tastings of the CBS with both KBS, (on Saturday), and with Curmudgeon's Better Half (on Sunday), and, to my jaundiced palate, the CBS was better than either of them.
Can you believe it?
A full crate of CBS from Founders was delivered this morning.
A full crate of CBS from Founders was delivered this morning.
Wow... that is one hell of a connection, considering in the states you are lucky to get a bottle or two unless you live in the area of the brewery. Even then. Post pictures so we can all enjoy the beautiful, and rather delicious sight! Super jealous!
Can't post pictures, but am enjoying a glass of it - the legendary CBS - now.
I still have most of the crate that was delivered this past Monday, but was not expecting today's delivery of a fun crate.
Earlier this week, upon being phoned, (to convey thanks and give feedback), they said that they received an extra delivery of two crates; I shall have to check discreetly whether I can cast a beady eye on a few bottles, but - as I received 18 bottles form one crate, a full twenty four bottles today, one should not be too greedy.
Hmm, the store I got it from had maybe 10-12 sitting on the shelf, no bottle limits at all. They aren’t exactly inexpensive though, so I just settled for the one bottle.
They were $25 (plus or minus) for me, about the same price as the Goose Island Stouts. Every store in my area including Bevmo and Total Wine each received a handful. I had to go to two different Bevmo's in order to get the two bottles. One of the Bevmo's had a two bottle limit, the other one didn't. Both of the Total Wines in my area were sold out within minutes. They say they don't hold for people, but I found that to be a far stretch of the truth. Both of my local guys did not get any. Of course if I wanted to travel a few hours within the county, I probably could have found more. But the most I have seen at a single location is four bottles with three being on hold. I have had about the same luck with KBS.
She pulled one heck of haul! I wish I could get that many. A lot of the beer guys up north didn't get any, but another guy in Washington State was able to get his hands on a few.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised to find them out and freely available with no limit, but this was at a grocery store in a small college town in the Deep South, not in a bigger city where there might be a larger market for it. On the other hand, there had clearly been maybe three times as many bottles on the shelf when I got there, so there are still plenty of people snapping it up. I might check out the local pub tonight and see if they have any on tap. They’ve been known to scare up a keg or two of the KBS in the past...
Very nice! If you ever go to websites like beeradvocate, there are folks who are closer to the brewery who are able to snag a lot of bottles! I would love to try KBS on tap! I have been lucky enough to find their Breakfast Stout on Tap a couple of times. Found it on tap in Vegas of all places! Not to mention our local "Bj's" had it on tap a few times. Haven't found KBS on tap yet thought!
I just found a cab in my basement from Caymus 1988! My spouses father sold grapes from Atlas Peak road to Caymus. His grapes are in there! I wonder if is drinkable?
Sorry, I had to read this twice to understand your meaning.
You meant Cabernet Sauvignon....yes?
In general, Cabernet Sauvignon can age very well, though thirty years, might be pushing it.
The only way you can tell is to open the bottle, sniff, savour, pour, taste and see for yourself....
Well then I’ll share it with the family this Xmas. I’ll report back just for fun.
Not Christmas, in case it is horrible; maybe the day before or the day after, just in case?
The reason I say this is that all of a quarter of a century ago, some idiot on the state radio station (who was horribly highly regarded) recommended a specific French wine for Christmas.
My father suggested to me that I purchase several bottles. I did so. They were mostly corked and uniquely beyond horrible. Ever since then, I have always ensured that we have wine that I know we love, in addition to wines that we may wish to sample (or experiment with) - or, have been recommended - at Christmas time.
This just seems to save a lot of grief.
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I once found the KBS on tap in St. Paul, MN. It was happy hour and the bar tender didn’t know what he was pouring. I got a full pint pour for something silly like $6.
After a couple of those you wouldn’t be able to!
Holy smokes! What a freaking steal! I wouldn't have left lol!
I think I would have been happily horizontal - even sober - and just deliriously found some sort of peculiar scientific piece of equipment - akin to a pipette - to - imbibe such nectar. Sort of like the mouthpiece (there is a specific noun, but it escapes me - a proboscis?) - of a hummingbird...
Yum.
Holy smokes! What a freaking steal! I wouldn't have left lol!
My point exactly.
That, too, is true.
Tonight, I had a fight (after two sublime bottles of CBS) with a bottle of port, a bottle of Dow's 1994 to be exact. That, and a desiccated cork.
I understand economics, economic history, and economics of scale. I even understand the dismal and and downright depressing economics (even if I deplore it) of selling your soul.
But, the sort of economics I cannot understand is that of charging an arm and a leg for a quality beverage and putting sub-standard corks into it.
Anyway, I felt as though I had spent some time in Downton Abbey; the cork disintegrated and then, ended up in the (expletive deleted) bottle. Cursing, swearing sulphurous oaths in fluent Anglo-Saxon, I decanted that damned port.
Into two stunning Art Nouveau bottles (for port, or sherry, or madeira) with silver filigreed tops, and a date (hallmarked) telling me that they originated in Edinburgh in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Sipping Dow's Port from 1994.
I have done a 25oz by myself, but that was pretty much all I had that night lol!
I ended up having two and woooooo the cold didn’t feel so cold after that!