Yearly Archives: 2014

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Cigar City Amplitude Sold Out in 20 Seconds and My Labias are Bruised

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Lol I am a member of Cigar City Catador club and society members had an opportunity to buy a bottle of Amplitude, oh wait, it sold out in 20 seconds. I can press F5 and be denied on Lost Abbey’s website for free, no membership required.

That’s right, a barrel aged imperial dopplebock, that was previously infected then pasteurized, SOLD OUT IN 20 SECONDS.

Cigar City goes:
” AMPLITUDE SALES CANCELLED, This decision was made when our lab found some strains of lactobacillus on the plates swabbed from our brite tank, the vessel used to carbonate the beer shortly before bottling. Lactobacillus is great for our Berliner Weisse and the upcoming Sour Guava Grove, as it aids in souring the beer. In Amplitude, a big rich barrel-aged doppelbock, it’d be a disaster.”

Then they be all like:

“After pasteurizing everything, I retested those same bottles on the same type of media. All 10 showed growth before and none of the 10 showed growth after. We also did a test called hot boxing where I put a few of the bottles in the incubator to accelerate the growth and effects of any spoilage organisms. We did sensory analysis of those bottles and all tasted fine with no signs of spoilage. Based on that, we’re all confident that the beer is clean and cleared for release””

This is the beer that sold out in 20 seconds. I hate beer.

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2011 Gratitude, Templeton rye cask aged. If they ain’t lookin I don’t want that bird.

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East End needs to get their Voltron up and do this shit. I can’t be up in the lab with that cookin mask, weighing out that 17/5 doing all the work for them.

This is the 2011 flatitude, then I aged it in a virgin oak cask that I saturated in Templeton rye. I am running out of attention seeking bullshit at this point.

But srs, if this had carb, shoulders BA behemoth lovingly. That hop profile space docks with the spicy rye crackle, that peppery oaky presence is a fantastic compliment, just mushing those malty tips.

DDB will knock the gravy out your biscuits.

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@thebruery Bois virgin French oak barrel, ticker do you even green wax?

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Hoarders ryde or di3.

This is incredibly wood forward, like in the realm of Matt/AftW. Fusel is ratcheted back by an overwhelming oak, borderline pine and light aserose. This is the least sweet variant, the least alcohol forward and drinks more akin to an Imperial Gratitude. The intense woodsy character increases the dryness, lowers the heat and stiff arms the sweetness present in say brandy/bourbon.

Intense wood pushing that jawline open like a low hanging euphemism.

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Blue Lobster Brewing Fires Old Brewer, Hires New Head Brewer With No Commercial Brewing Experience

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Looking forward to seeing some nuanced brown ales and a panoply of smoked Vienna lagers. I don’t mind paying top dollar while someone learns his craft.

Please advise if the new head brewer does, in fact, have prior commercial brewing experience and I will modify this post. I would hate to receive a spurious lawsuit for defamtion on something we can all agree is presented as either parody or completely irrelevant to Blue Lobster’s business plan and profit margins.