Inb4 “glass Wales.”

After sampling the chewy gristy “matter in substrate” from Trillium, these awesome Grimm cans seem downright hoplemic by contrast, in a fantastic crushable manner. The tangerine and mandarin oranges make a return and serve like a warm approving hand on the shoulder of the oily conifer and chard underpinnings of the hops themselves.

The mouthfeel is lamentably a touch too thin and the tepid middle body from the carb underscores this problem, but the execution can’t drag down what is undeniably a well crafted beer. If anything it reduces complexity in favor of drinkability, which some may prefer in an IPA 4 pack regardless.

The immediate impulse is to compare it to something in line with this:

 
Whereas Trillium seems to be  pushing for heft and depth, Tesseract seems to be hitting an easy going elevator conversation with pithy clementine recaps of the weekend. There’s a place for both in my alpha acid soaked heart.
Well done Grimm, now if only there were an analogue readily available in west coast markets-

  
Some trades, some donations, a catador trustee beer:

What a time to be alive.

  
Someday the SD contingency will realize that these Monsters Park deviants don’t have to live in the shadow of the 2014 Ba release anymore. Despite being awesome these MP bottles still lay low in that Tom Clancy splinter cell.

You don’t need to offload solid barrel aged stouts for like White Oak jai alai. Just drink them, it’s easy AF.

  
Pretty meh, thin, unbalanced, cut lumber, clove and nutmeg, burned toast and anise. It’s fine but, at that $60 realm, why am I not drinking a cask strength smooth ambler old scout?

If this had some sweetness or a viscous depth to it, then sure maybe, as it stands it exists in the realm of a regular old single barrel four roses which costs half as much.

  
Mead me in the trap, it’s goin down.

  
I don’t even feel like explaining to the 2014 class what Magic Ghost is. This shit gets so tiring. 

I loved center cut and then they drop this apeshit version. Incredible.

Each one of these one-offs have been awesome, and each comes with a weird little tale:

““This one-of-a-kind label pays tribute to a Noe family story that’s been the topic of conversation among our family for many years, and I’m thrilled to share it with Booker’s fans like you. I’ve always been fond of cooking with bourbon. Years ago, as I was preparing a pork roast, I mistakenly reached for a bottle of my husband’s namesake bourbon. Due to the bourbon’s high proof, the oven sparked and the door flew open, much to our surprise! “Oven Buster Batch” is a true testament to the uncut and unfiltered1, full-bodied whiskey that my husband preferred, and I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much as he did.” –Annis Wickham Noe
Wife to Frederick Booker Noe II”

Other will likely object, but this is one Bookers bottle that doesnt outright REQUIRE water, a light splash maybe but it has enough balance and wood to make the massive proof not overwhelming.  It is syrupy and pecan pie with cream of wheat brown sugar, the oak finish is long and dry with a touch of cinnamon red hots. No one cares about these sleepers, thank god.

Please don’t buy this. Go seek orvw or whatever people who read Esquire magazine drink.

  
The preliminary reviews of this from blunt palate whiskErones have been hilarious. Despite having the same abv and aging for two full years to integrate the first stupid shit most traders mention is how “hot” this beer is. Right, because ultra oaked casks usually will drive up those fusel notes a ton. 10/10 bourbon and BJCP knowledge badges all around.

The same shit happened when they aged pugachev’s cobra in 25 year old barrels, when people tasted the over oaked, lacquer, varnish, pencil shavings, the first thing they say is “oh shit lay it down for a bit.” Right because two years of cask maturation in an ultra aged barrel means: it simply needs more time.

God I love the current beer scene, between this and dudes buying 92 bottles of Parabajava yesterday strictly for resale, I don’t even. I jokingly said this would be the year of full commoditization, black market embrace and the end of bonhomie as the standard in beer sharing. I had no idea how true it would become.

I should know I just got pounded 2x$4$ in rarer/better/brewery only beers for this years bcbs lineup so I could share them with my sister. If you saw that trade you know my feels.

Big hopes for that Prop, not even Chicago is going to bat for that one this year. We shall see.

When does my real doll arrive.

  
Battery operated agitator, got it, for that traditional cask ale, electronically whipped like in the UK.

I want an ESB but I want it bruised to shit with a dead mouthfeel. Well xmas is right around the corner, and this is the type of shit old DDB receives because “lol my friend said ur teh beer guy!!!”

And endless bottles of Chimay. So much Chimay blue.