$160 Case of Beer?

[Jeffrey Schronce]

http://www.stoudtsbeer.com/events_micro-fest.html

Well, what's stopping ya? Lets go, go, go!

[messmaker]

I used to go to the North Eastern Invitational Brewfest there every year and stay at the Holiday Inn in town. For $20 they give you a glass at the door and a ticket for a great German buffet. From what I remember there was about 20-30 breweries each year and each had at least two brews. And, it was all you can drink.

We learned after a couple years too that we needed to stay at the Holiday Inn and go the last session on Saturday. All the brewers rolled out their leftover kegs in the back parking lot and the festivities began again.

Sounds like a good place to hold a BT3 forum meeting.

[mashtun]

$160 Case of Beer

I have had both the 120 Minute IPA and the Tripel Bock.

The 120 Minute IPA is just plain Massive. It's a huge sticky beer, with massive amounts of bitterness to set it off. It's about 16 to 18 percent, not really the 20 they say it is. It really is a beer that can age well in bottles, and I think it needs to set a minimum of two years, before it is at it's peak.

Time and ingredients are the reason it costs so much. To reach that high of an alchol content the brewers are constantly rousing the yeast and putting in more yeast. My friend who works there says the 120 in in the Fermenter a 6 weeks. A batch of 60 minute or 90 minute is in and out in two weeks.
A batch of 120 will also use two to three times as much malt and 4 to 6 times as much hops. Therefore they have to charge a premimum for it.

I still have some of the original Tripelbock, and when it was first bought out, it was more like a Coniac dosed with maple syrup, than a beer. Now at 13 or 14 years of age it has really mellowed, the maple syrup is almost all gone, and it just tasted like a huge maltly double bock. Very sticky

My friend daughter is just turning 13 and in that I am old enough to do what ever I want stage. I can always end the arugument, by saying that I have beers older that her!

John