@firestonewalker XV remains a god damn masterpiece and the most BiLtastic Life-forward blend to date. Excepting a few chocolates ropes of Parabola, this is a megazord of malty sativa barrels. Bravo, helldorado, double barrel, good foot for fucks sake, if you added Sucaba as the green ranger this would go full on raisinette Zordon. It’s a touch muddy from the years, light oxy, and carb is a bit wispy but god damn now that 13 is full on Kikoman, this is the heir to the barrel aged aftermath dynasty. Painful to drink glorified Velvet Merkin from this when they were cracking staves across peoples’ backs a half decade ago. We were so young. Drop kick that small format asshole into a barley Mako reactor and make it confront the malty past.

Zoom in on the zenith might as well be the same old world class god tier haze that @monkishbrewing released today. You would think that all these resolutionist assholes crowding the gym would also represent some floccing hazebois but that Venn diagram apparently does not share a shaded penumbra. Dudes with peach vape pens piling out of busted Integras wearing Diamond Supply Co shit shockingly do not meaningfully interact with free weights. But the beer is excellent. Pillowy soft, absolutely zero resin, light chalky minerality to the swallow like apricot pith. Complaining about the samey nature of these beers is laughable when 245 maladjusted dudes show up in two hours notice, wheezing and drinking full throttle to stay awake. So apparently no news is fantastic news if you are a god tier slurry purveyor.

As much as I horse around ribbing these cringey new beer trends, somehow this @deweybeerco gobstopper milkshake sour didn’t get in its own way. Not quite enamel stripping kettle sour, not as sweet as a jammy otter pop gose but far far from a hazy IPA. It’s a god damn chimera of market trends. The owner, Mr Dewey was in a board room meeting clutching a copy of @draftmag and he goes “WE NEED TO BE DOING THIS GOD DAMN IT” “uh which sir?” “START DOING ALL OF IT ALL THE TIME IMMEDIATELY!” And then some hapless brewer in Delaware got fired Bc there was a Dortmunder on the brew schedule white board. It reminds me of when Ubisoft tries to pack game ideas from every genre and you’re left wondering why you are picking slant route plays in Assassins creed. It’s a lot but it masters none. That being said if you enjoy the next logical iteration of fruited malt beverages then this is an excellent choice.

#dgm [actually water nucleation] #fakebrews

God damn, what a dizzying world of difference care and gentle stave massaging does. That wheaty wagyu corn fed juice. Normal ass makers is airport bourbon, 46 is fancy applebees, barrel proof is what you get a boss when he pays you $15 an hour, but somehow this is far more compelling than the lineage would connote. There is a wallop of raisin and dry mallow dipped lacquer. It’s probably the same 6 year type of shit at $80 but it feels much more refined in execution without that wincey underripe cereal milk white lightning can exhibit. If you are like me too poor to justify dropping $350 on a phc8, this is kinda like how a 300c “looks” like a Bentley. It’s solid and sure I would prefer Bookers most of the time, but understand how basement low my expectations were and how hard it shoryukened me into the fourth floor. Thanks @seant9689 FO the EBT wheater donation in my alms dram

@funkfactorygeuzeria runs the boards on transatlantic depth and in some fruited instances, surpassing their Belgian counterparts. But what about this simple lil “table mêthôede” it delivers in the same way that the likes of @hillfarmstead Clara and @sideprojectbrew Grisette deliver, that odd segment of delicate,

Fragile, intensely drinkable while evidencing a core section of nuance and depth. Sure there is lemon and a smattering of brett B, but also a kind of canvas and rope, slight wheaty chewiness to the bone dry fume blanc body. This needs to be in magnums exclusively but I don’t know if my angus is sufficiently peppered to shell out $75 or whatever for Maggies of this waify banger. Some casual ass Brussels faderade by way of Wisconsin, ain’t even mad.

They may be small but this leverages both BALs to take double brown to Life pound town. With what seemed like a @firestonewalker regression in Bravo away from the barley embrace, the wambles squad pushes his firmly forward into malty decadence just dripping in sweet caramel, tobacco, assless leather chaps and dry earl grey finish supported by a stavey character that keeps it from feeling flabby or underattenuated. It’s juggling casks to take BALs that can sometimes seem too sweet or aberrant and make something this fantastic and relatively overlooked. @cigarcitybrewing continues it’s reign as the undisputed champions of the Life game in the south and easily amongst the best in the United States. It is contraclimate but I wouldn’t have it any other way

A touch thinner body this year but still that intense roast and espresso creaminess to the swallow, I crema’ed my jeans. Full malt bloom and a heft that tastes almost european or like a massive version of Everett, the coffee dovetails and comes across like a smoked Baltic Porter if not for the extremely faint vanilla cat back exhaust just pumping waffle cone out those quad tips. I said this before but their treatment of fresno’s coffee “situation” is remarkable. It transcends the scope of what it sets forth. As far as non barrel aged raw dog stouts go, this eschews the confectionary aisle and goes full v60 14 micron grind on these 559 haters. At present @tiogasequoia is a touch one note with a smattering of other exceptional entries but the stout game they are setting forth is at the very least geography molding akin to the innumerable speedway riffs. Put this in a barrel and return in 9 mos pls

Also if you are in La this Friday, you can come see the ddb live show even before those 312 haters next month

I don’t know just what the shit is going on in Delaware; it’s like they saw what @theanswerva was doing with Jooose and @deweybeerco goes “hold my popsicle, we gonna make a raspberry mango boysenberry gobstopper milkshake sour-” the east coast is locked in this insane sherbert arms race and I don’t know how to feel about all this fruited lactose destruction.

More mile high rocky loads from @cerebralbrewing and @omfbrewing, some MEDAL WINNERS up in this brettbitch but I’m peeping that life in the middle that proudly wears the #BIL monicker and flexes that malty heritage. Colorado, always crushingly generous, weldwerks confectioner hypeboiz notwithstanding.

A @marblebrewers care package of maltwater from across the pond. Lighting old ddb up with some authentic English life, shit always gets real when you see the customs tags on the box.

I legit have no clue what barbera barrel aging will impart but my body is ready