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Getting my Sour on with Yahoo Indomitus Dolium Ale in the proper glassware.

Gonna help RedBEERd bottle and keg his Black IPA then we're heading somewhere to enjoy American Craft Beer Week. We're on the hunt for Dr. Hoptagon and Ghost draft before it disappears.

Just kicked the keg of my Lakeline Lager, so next up Awe-Rye Pale Ale.

Very fresh Ghost on draft. The absolute best it's ever been. Beerection!

Dr. Hoptagon
Kind of weak after Ghost but good nonetheless.

Beer-lord wrote:

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Beerection!

Awe-Rye Pale Ale

I have a full sized fridge and a large shelf full of funk. I already had plenty of funk, and then Neil gave me a couple cases of funk as payment for working the Funk Fest. I must start clearing some of this funk (tough job, I know)...

This week I've handled some great funk... some Yazoo funk, some Nola funk, some AC Golden funk (damn Coors makes some great funk beers... don't think less of me), some Crooked Stave funk, some de Garde funk, some Rodenbach funk, and some Silly funk. Oh, and some Inkleg funk (really liked the sours... glad I found one of them in the back o' the fridge... I guess I should consider opening the RIS at some point). Tonight? Some Monk's Cafe funk...



Love this stuff... and love free beer. And I just said 'funk' a lot...

No funking way....that's a lot of funk.

Just had a Ballast Point Grunion pale ale. Now, what's next?

Beer-lord wrote:

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Very fresh Ghost on draft. The absolute best it's ever been. Beerection!

This was the second best glass of beer I've had in my almost 57 years. Prolly the freshest ever for me. I can't equate what it's ALMOST better than on a message board but, damn, please don't make me answer that.

Get the funk out of here.
After the Yazoo funk, I poured a glass of my Brett IPA funk. Now they are saying WLP644 is not Brett funk, but that it is actually Sacc yeast. So I don't know what the funk to think about that. Except that it makes good funkin beer either way.

Glad you liked my funk Swen.

Ya'll just funk me up!
Thanks for that.

Inkleg wrote:Now they are saying WLP644 is not Brett funk, but that it is actually Sacc yeast. So I don't know what the funk to think about that. Except that it makes good funkin beer either way.

Funky mutants happen. That funk is similar to my house brett, except I get some "wet hay" on top of the pineapple, and less mango. But if you like beers made with that funky stuff you'd like my infected summer beer.

French Saison is also Sacc, but it's a Saccharomyces "diastaticus". As in it eats stuff sacc doesn't eat like wild beer infecting yeast. It can eat starch. It can eat big sugar chains from a higher temperature mash or crystal malt. It's a funky mutant of some sort too. But that's why it attenuates 97%+, even with extract. It's a "wild thing". Bella is the same thing as far as I can tell.

I'm drinking my Kilt Skier's Beer de Mars, which was fermented with some of that wild thing.

I had mentioned the AC Golden... I guess I should have posted a pic of them as well...


AC Golden Golden's Promise and AC Golden Peche 4

For those that don't know, AC Golden is the MillCoors experimental "brand incubator" that they run out of the old Coors pilot brewery. They started out doing more standard styles (but not standard to MillCoors) such as Vienna lagers, winter ales, German pilsners, etc. that are sold only in the Colorado market. In recent years they've moved into sour and funk brewing and have been quite successful. They normally serve these small batch beers on tap at taprooms and bars local to them, but they also make batches for festivals. These two were made specifically for the Yazoo Funk Fest this year, and I was fortunate to be able to snag a few leftover bottles at the end as part of my 'payment.' Both are great. Golden's Promise is a straight up sour done very nicely, while Peche 4 is all peach and stonefruit and subtle funk and tart.

If Coors wants to make beers like these, I'll give them some of my business...

Inkleg wrote:Getting my Sour on with Yazoo Indomitus Dolium Ale in the proper glassware.

How's that drinking these days? I have maybe four bottles set back. Thought it was fine when fresh, but that it needed a little age.

The last of my Adnam's Ghost Ship Pale Ale.