Hill Country Beer Club

Member's Choice
January 06, 2018

Davo's House
15:00:00

Brewer	Beer	Vintage	Score
Leinenkugel Brewing Co. (SABMiller)	Snowdrift Vanilla Porter	2017	84
Short Fuse Brewing Company	Loosey Juicy	2017	85
Jessup Farm Barrel House	Wheelhouse	2017	87
Cedar Creek Brewery	Dankosaurus IPA	2017	89
Victory Brewing Company	DirtWolf	2017	89
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company	Trip In The Woods: Narwhal ( Bourbon Barrel-Aged With Red & Black Currants)	2016	89
St bernardus	ABT 12	2017	88
Fiffty fiffty	Eclipse Java Coffee 2017	2017	91
Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling	Wee Heavy	2017	91

Who Offered: DAVO, FATBOY, KAY JAY, LARA, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: BRANDY, DAVO, FATBOY, KAY JAY, LARA, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Summary

84	Leinenkugel Brewing Co. (SABMiller) Snowdrift Vanilla Porter Vanilla Porter \| 6% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: SANTA

85	Short Fuse Brewing Company Loosey Juicy New England Style IPA \| 6.4% ABV \| 35 IBU Offered By: WESTEXANS

87	Jessup Farm Barrel House Wheelhouse American-Style Brown Ale \| 6.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: WESTEXANS

Club/Brewer Notes:
Bourbon barrel aged brown ale.

89	Cedar Creek Brewery Dankosaurus IPA American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 6.8% ABV \| 65 IBU Offered By: FATBOY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Inspired by some of our favorite West Coast IPAs, the bold pine, citrus, peach, and tangerine hop flavors, along with a clean bitterness are balanced by a velvety malt backbone. This beautiful blend of flavor and drinkability showcases the truly unique Eureka hop which we find to be delightfully juicy and dank. You don’t need tiny arms and a huge head to enjoy this mammoth IPA!

89	Victory Brewing Company DirtWolf Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 8.7% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: SANTA

Club/Brewer Notes:
Wildly assertive, intentionally untamed and dangerously satisfying, DirtWolf Double IPA is the culmination of Victory’s double IPA series experiment with whole flower American-grown hops. With two-row German malts and a well-balanced combination of whole flower Citra, Chinook, Simcoe and Mosaic hops, this 8.7% abv brew blends the powerful citrus aroma and fruity flavors, with the piney, earthy and mildly floral characteristics found in these intriguing hop varieties. Replacing Victory’s Hop Wallop® Ale, which will take a hiatus from the market for the time being, DirtWolf Double IPA will launch the brewery’s entry into four-packs when it begins to hit markets in October". “So a wolf and a prospector walked into a bar…,” joked President and Brewmaster, Bill Covaleski. “No, in all seriousness, Hop Wallop will be missed, but isn’t necessarily gone forever. We developed that brand 10 years ago as our flavorful response to the hop-bomb vogue of the time. But as brewers who enjoy experimenting with beer styles and ingredient varieties, we looked for the opportunity to do other interesting recipes as time passed. Making the decision to put Hop Wallop aside for a few years allows us to bring this delicious new double IPA, DirtWolf, to the market in bottles. Darkly heroic, Humulus Lupulus (hops) have empowered brews with bite and character since the 11th century. DirtWolf is a tribute to these untamed vines which rise from the earth with the voracity of a ’wolf among sheep.’ Hops have made an assertive comeback in American craft brewing. Revel in the best US varieties of hops, in their natural, whole flower form, as they bring a vital, pungent reality to the soul of a wild element in our dangerously satisfying DirtWolf. Cheers, Bill, Ron, The Brewmasters of Victory.

89	Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Trip In The Woods: Narwhal ( Bourbon Barrel-Aged With Red & Black Currants) Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer \| 9.8% ABV \| 60 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Trip In The Woods: Narwhal ( Bourbon Barrel-Aged With Red & Black Currants) is a American Double / Imperial Stout style beer brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico

88	St bernardus ABT 12 Belgian quad \| 10% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: LARA

91	Fiffty fiffty Eclipse Java Coffee 2017 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Pale to Amber Beer \| 11.9% ABV \| 40 IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Club/Brewer Notes:
First released as an option in 2012, the Java Coffee variant of the Eclipse line. 2017 is a blend of different FiftyFifty beers, some barrel-aged and some not. According to Todd Ashman, director of brewing operations at FiftyFifty, the Java Coffee incorporates the brewery’s Totality Squared imperial stout as its base and blends in beers that were aged in Four Roses, Rittenhouse Rye, High West and Wild Turkey barrels, along with a “roasted coffee/cold toddy” from Wood Fire Roasted Coffee Co. based out of Reno, Nev.

91	Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling Wee Heavy Strong Ale \| 11.9% ABV \| 25 IBU Offered By: DAVO

Club/Brewer Notes:
This Wee Heavy was aged in a combination of first-fill Buffalo Trace and Ranger Creek .36 bourbon barrels. The beer features a complex malt character with sweet caramel notes and a worming alcohol finish. The characteristics of the bourbon barrel complement the flavors of the Wee Heavy, adding undertones of vanilla and earthy tobacco. Enjoy in a snifter and allow to warm to 55 degrees to enjoy this beer at its full potential.