Hill Country Beer Club

Florida's Finest
January 23, 2015

Steph's House
16:00:00

KJ will be bringing this month's selections back from his time in Florida. Bring your dues!

Brewer	Beer	Vintage	Score
Against the Grain Brewery	The Brown Note	2014	87
Finch’s Beer Company	Finch’s Stache in the Wood	2014	87
Terrapin	Moo-HooChiato	2014	89
Cigar City Brewing	Puppy’s Breath Porter	2014	88
MIKKELLER	BETTER HALF IPA	2014	91
Cigar City Brewing	Tocobaga	2014	90
Sweetwater Brewing Company	Hop Hash	2014	91
Terrapin Beer Company	Imperial Pumpkin Pie Porter	2014	86
Bell's Brewery	Mars - The Bringer of War	2014	92
Evil Twin Brewing	Freudian Slip	2014	90
Jester King Craft Brewery	Black Metal	2011	90
Bell's Brewery	The Oracle DIPA	2014	92
Cigar City Brewing	Warmer Winter Winter Warmer	2014	91

Who Offered: FATBOY, KAY JAY

Who Drank: BRANDY, CHEETO, FATBOY, KAY JAY, LARA, MOJO, NOSS, PRIMETIME, SANTA, STEPH, WESTEXANS

Summary

87	Against the Grain Brewery The Brown Note American-Style Brown Ale \| 5% ABV \| 20 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
so good it WILL make you shit yourself!!!! The brown ale to end all brown ales. Enjoy it, because there is no longer any reason to drink another. You’ve reached the pinnacle. A healthy blend of traditional British malts give this popular style a semi-sweet, biscuity, slightly roasted flavor. Oats thicken the mouthfeel, and a handful of specialty malts add complex chocolate, toffee, and caramel notes. The hops are mostly traditional, earthy British hops, but we cocked it up a bit with some Cascade late in the boil just to show those snooty Brits that we don’t approve of that Constitutional Monarchy crap.

87	Finch’s Beer Company Finch’s Stache in the Wood robust stout \| 5.3% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
A robust stout with vanilla bean and barrel aged in Koval barrels for six months. Heaps of chocolate malt give the beer its color as well as its chocolate and coffee notes

89	Terrapin Moo-HooChiato Chocolate Espresso Milk Stout \| 6% ABV \| 30 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
From the Reserve Series 2014. Like your favorite cup of Cafe Mocha, Moo-HooChiato “Chocolate Espresso Milk Stout” put you in the right state of mind. take in the aroma of expertly roasted espresso from Jittery Joe’s and let your taste buds melt into the flavor of Olive & Sinclair’s award winning chocolate. Brewed with lactose sugar for a creamy mouth feel and a touch of sweetness, this is a Barista’s wish come true.

88	Cigar City Brewing Puppy’s Breath Porter Robust Porter \| 6.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Due to their immature digestive system and their diet, the breath of a puppy can smell like coffee or chocolate. This porter is loaded with roasted malts that have the wonderful smell of chocolate and coffee. This reminds us of our loving companions as we drink and reflect

91	MIKKELLER BETTER HALF IPA American India Pale Ale \| 6.9% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
East Coast Style IPA. Better Half is not your average dry citrus-bomb IPA. This is a fairly dark beer--copper in color with a significant caramelly maltiness. It's a bit toasty and packed with tropical fruit and pine-like hop flavor. Seriously tasty stuff.

90	Cigar City Brewing Tocobaga American-Style Amber/Red Ale \| 7.2% ABV \| 75 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Amber in color with notes of citrus and caramel. Citrus hop bitterness upfront with notes of caramel and an Amish bread sweetness. Citrus hop bitterness returns at the end for a long dry finish.

91	Sweetwater Brewing Company Hop Hash Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 7.8% ABV \| 100 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
We scraped all the hash out of the Yakima hop pelletizers we could get our sticky fingers on to concoct the dankest double IPA out there. The pure hop lupulin, aka “hash” (the resiny stuff), meshes seamlessly with the 2-row, pilsner and wheat malts, allowing it to deliver a pungent punch to the palate.

86	Terrapin Beer Company Imperial Pumpkin Pie Porter Specialty Stouts \| 9.2% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Tired of the everyday pumpkin beer? At Terrapin we set out to make one with more character...a lot more character. Bring this great feast of a beer to your favorite fall gathering and share with everyone who attends. Brewed with a cornucopia of deep, rich malts that compliment a hearty fall meal, this spiced up Imperial Porter will have you asking for a second helping.

92	Bell's Brewery Mars - The Bringer of War Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 10.1% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
The first release in Bell’s Planet Series, Mars (The Bringer of War) is a double IPA with a complex hop character and a malty backbone. Notes of tropical fruit, citrus, pine, lemon, lime and pineapple are all present in both the aroma and flavor. Hopped at a ratio of about 3.4 pounds of hops per barrel, the recipe for Mars was developed from a trial batch called Larry’s Latest Double IPA brewed in our original brewery located adjacent to the Eccentric Café in downtown Kalamazoo.

Member Notes:
"great taste,wish we had the others" - fatboy

90	Evil Twin Brewing Freudian Slip American-Style Barley Wine Ale \| 10.3% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Did you also at some point in your life get seduced by promising words like ’probably the best in the world’, ’it works every time’ etc.? This American Barley Wine Ale says it how it is. It’s intense, attention seekingly hoppy, and definitely your kind of beer. A beer with a big ego, drive and a huge thirst for recognition.

90	Jester King Craft Brewery Black Metal American-Style Imperial Stout \| 10.4% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: FATBOY

Member Notes:
"aged well" - fatboy

92	Bell's Brewery The Oracle DIPA Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 10.4% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

91	Cigar City Brewing Warmer Winter Winter Warmer American-Style Barley Wine Ale \| 12% ABV \| 47 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
We mashed up traditional English-style barley wine-style and old ale winter warmer-style ales with citrusy American hops like Simcoe, Centennial, Columbus, Chinook, Amarillo and, fittingly, Glacier, to create a Floridian Winter Ale. Dark amber to brown in color with notes of toffee and dried citrus in the aroma - Opens with a caramel/toffee sweetness that is cut by notes of citrus and pine bitterness with hints of rye and lingering notes of citrus, toffee and rye