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It’s about to be fall, bust out the Rhônes and white burgs

Tater bros askin about Pappies I’m like I’m down to Chat abuet Pape’ies. Sipping white burgs like we aren’t about to be navel deep in sickening allspice bombs, pumpkin pies thrown directly into the boil, beers randalled through cored pumpkins, cinnamon challenges accidental edition in tasting rooms, wincing the holidays away through gourdy haze. That single tear rolling down @stbcbeer face while they grip the Jitterbug and wonder when all the Pumking suitors will show up, like the vacant Simple Plan shows wondering where the fanbase went. So many metabolized containers of Cool Whip drying out otherwise forgettable beers, someone with a Fermentation Sciences degree listening to someone in marketing talking about “brand synergy” wondering who is gonna come clean up all these empty ReadiWhip cans. Fall is almost upon us, your coworker is foaming at the mouth to tell you about that marzen he had. No neck remains unadorned with pretzel garlands like a pagan ritual for betapalates. Everyone gets a trophy, it’s beer in Autumn.

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199[x] Fantome Silencieuse: certifiable ghost whale from a forgotten era

A forgotten ghost from the Clinton administration: Fantome Silencieuse 👻. This bottle has that odd notched 750ml glass and pours with more oxy than white sophomores at EDC. Speculating on provenance is bonkers but having a label this intact is mind blowing. It’s muddy grapefruit, leather and old yearbook, tangelo zest and funkyyyy brett B like coiled twine. Another once in a lifetime tick from days of farmhouse past. Getting ghosted in the DM.

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2012 Fantome extra sour b1: the legend continues to improve

In 2012 Fantome extra sour dropped and rocked my world for what was possible in the realm of saisons. This same year we saw insane bangers like Ann and inimitable gems from Mackenzie public house. The days of @southamptonpublickhouse Peconic were dead to us but we didn’t know it then. Saisons themselves were about to enter a world of monoculture fuckery and denatured marketing. This beer is one of my favorite beers of all time. Each time I dip my musky wick into this 600 bottle release it reminds me anew of the farmhouse power to describe, compel, renew. It has a balance to the sky high 10% abv, zested tangerine, a double helix of brett L and B providing depth and almost an Armandesque 3F to the acidity. The carb, I mean jesus just look at the meringue sustain. It’s uplifting to gaze upon this tipping point, a point in saison life before enamel strippers set work to stripmine our mandibles under the banner of FARMHOUSE CULTURE. Because that’s what wallonian field hands wanted after hours of agrarian toil: a crushingly dry ph3.0 Beer you can only drink 4 ounces of. Super rustic. Thankfully we have @rusticales and @suarezfamilybrewery and @oddbreedwildales pushing the pendulum back to center. Once the garbage palates move on to 12 Plato FG beers, saisons can get back to basics.

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Bottle Logic Fundamental Observation batch 4: bean grinding

With all these harrowing tales of the Nilla Market Crash, I was curious to see if it was purely supply driven or if it was reflexive to the actual quality of the beer. Nobody trades for Beer to actually drink it and the streets being “flooded” with more accessible amazing stouts is a bad thing only for dumbfucks who predicate their self esteem on sugar water “value.” Think sacchrocurrency except the block chains are run by dudes who play Warhammer. This @bottlelogicbrewing offering has the old “even batch” muted vanilla in that it isn’t one dimensional and like b2 leans more toward barrel. This is all but a neg for the type of consumer who wants a unidimensional waffle cone experience. Batch 4 doesn’t bisect my bean. It’s very good, worse than b3 and the likes of FunSum, but superior to FOb2. If your sense of self worth is tied to possessing sugar water someone else created, then maybe this isn’t for you. Maybe you need a moment of reflection for the diminishing returns attendant to a hobby of consumption. Maybe no one gives a fuck what you have in your linen closet.

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Malt Couture Batch 10 is live! The mail bag episode! Mail mail it makes me want to wag my tail

http://bit.ly/Batch10Mailbag

You wrote in, AND THE MALTY BOYS ANSWERED. Batch 10 of @maltcoutureddb is now live! Link in profile. We sample new aromatic techniques, field insane inquiries, and dig deep into the world of bowlPAs. Rate review and subscribe, kiss your cousin on the mouth. Listen on spotify, itunes, google play, stitcher, or whatever your Redhat Linux based Slackware your phone is running.

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In case you missed it: Batch 9 of Malt Couture is live! FRICKIN KUHNHENN EISBOCK HORIZONTALS

http://bit.ly/Batch9MichaelsFirstHorizontal

Batch 9 of Malt Couture is now live! I treat Michael Gabriel to a horizontal life gauntlet in the form of the entire 2016 ba eisbock set from Kuhnhenn, goats are herded, we crush some Suarez, Stephen does the entire TGI Friday’s endless apps tasting, and we find out the Bret Kuhnhenn and Eric Kuhnhenn previously worked at AVIS rental car [fn1]

This is legit the best episode to date. You can Venmo me for the dry cleaning bill for the inevitable piss sprayed in your Zubazes.

BATCH 10 is a mailbag episode and it goes live TOMORROW AT NOON U BOTTOM FERMENTERS

[fn1 – this is entirely inaccurate]

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Batch 8 of Malt Couture with Special Guest Alexandra Nowell from Three Weavers Brewing Company is Live Now!

http://bit.ly/MaltCoutureBatch8ThreeWeavers

Batch 8 of Malt Couture is live now and we have our very first guest, the extremely talented, Alexandra Nowell, head brewer for Three Weavers Brewing Company! We dig deep into the great Horal v. Methode Traditionnelle dispute and talk about controversial Red Robin hop salts, now live on ITunes/Spotify/Google Play/Stitcher and all Jitterbug devices.

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Kulshan brewing and Wiley Roots back2back barley bangers

Damnnnn. Oh man @kulshanbrewery putting out some bag cereal Arctic Devil and I ain’t even mad. Marshmallow Mateys been down since no scrubs and no pigeons. It’s tightly wound and has an almost old ale execution akin to that pure cask driven Adam from the Wood experience that some people can’t handle because everything gotta be creme brûlée shell for those confucktioners. Really enjoyable and another example of silent pnw Life that they sip behind the velvet rope, dripping in rain and artisan roasters, hoping no one finds their lil John Galt village of sticky bangers. Objectivism off the charts on this one even Howard Roark tappin his wingtips.

While we are discussing Life, this @wileyrootsbrewing one toes dangerously close to straight up gourdjuice. The balancing act in pumpkin 🎃 barley🥖wine🍷is having it like a pickle spear next to a decadent Reuben. You don’t want a whole plate of pickles. @voodoobrewery caution did this impeccably and @almanacbeer followed suit. The issue with this is that it’s jackolantern first and caramel second. If you legit love TOKEN or the classic pumpkin strong ales then sure all day, but I want more life, that insane @elkvalleybrew type of golf cart fatality water. This beer is fine but with so many impeccable pumpkin barleywines it doesn’t stand on the podium, but that’s a testament to how hard others are grinding on those pieloton bikes. Glutes on throb. 🥧