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04-12-2010, 20:13
Visit the Are You Tasting The Pith? site (http://thebeerboy.blogspot.com/2010/12/open-it-lexington-brewing-co-kentucky.html)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1mX3XeGS77c/TPquPkB9_PI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1lxVgD48uMc/s320/openit.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1mX3XeGS77c/TPquPkB9_PI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1lxVgD48uMc/s1600/openit.jpg)I promise this won't degenerate into a lot of virtual willy-waving about who has the most interestingly-stocked cellar, but I've just been down to mine and crikey, I've got a lot of old tat down there.
Sure, I have some interesting bits and pieces. There's some of the last vintage of Gales Prize Old Ale from the Horndean Brewery, a couple of aged Orval, a Marble Decadence, and so on. Arguably, any of these would be a better choice of beer for Open It! than the bottle in front of me. But in some ways, I have more curiosity about this beer than anything else in my cellar. I sort of know how the Orval will be, and that the Gales POA is going to be a disappointment - horribly flat and sour, a shadow of the great vintages that Gales produced through the 1990s.
The only thing I know about this beer is that it came from Andreas Falt at Vertical Drinks, after a trip to the USA. He handed it to me and said that he thought I might find it interesting. I even had to look up the brewery on RateBeer, although I didn't look at any tasting notes (although I couldn't help but notice the score - 65 overall, and 92 for the style). And so because I knew nothing about the beer, I kept looking at it wondering when I was going to open it, until Open It! came along.
Straight from the freezing cellar, it pours golden and pin-bright. As it warms up, a little vanilla oak and spirit lifts from the glass along with a faint hint of something bacterial - lacto? aceto? The palate is - as the admen love to say - clean and crisp, and the finish is vaguely plasticky, reminiscent of sucking air in through an old chewed Bic biro. Mercifully, the finish is fairly short.
Maybe I should go and grab that Marble Decadence?https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72277889156220824-8332418184039405601?l=thebeerboy.blogspot.com
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1mX3XeGS77c/TPquPkB9_PI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1lxVgD48uMc/s320/openit.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1mX3XeGS77c/TPquPkB9_PI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1lxVgD48uMc/s1600/openit.jpg)I promise this won't degenerate into a lot of virtual willy-waving about who has the most interestingly-stocked cellar, but I've just been down to mine and crikey, I've got a lot of old tat down there.
Sure, I have some interesting bits and pieces. There's some of the last vintage of Gales Prize Old Ale from the Horndean Brewery, a couple of aged Orval, a Marble Decadence, and so on. Arguably, any of these would be a better choice of beer for Open It! than the bottle in front of me. But in some ways, I have more curiosity about this beer than anything else in my cellar. I sort of know how the Orval will be, and that the Gales POA is going to be a disappointment - horribly flat and sour, a shadow of the great vintages that Gales produced through the 1990s.
The only thing I know about this beer is that it came from Andreas Falt at Vertical Drinks, after a trip to the USA. He handed it to me and said that he thought I might find it interesting. I even had to look up the brewery on RateBeer, although I didn't look at any tasting notes (although I couldn't help but notice the score - 65 overall, and 92 for the style). And so because I knew nothing about the beer, I kept looking at it wondering when I was going to open it, until Open It! came along.
Straight from the freezing cellar, it pours golden and pin-bright. As it warms up, a little vanilla oak and spirit lifts from the glass along with a faint hint of something bacterial - lacto? aceto? The palate is - as the admen love to say - clean and crisp, and the finish is vaguely plasticky, reminiscent of sucking air in through an old chewed Bic biro. Mercifully, the finish is fairly short.
Maybe I should go and grab that Marble Decadence?https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72277889156220824-8332418184039405601?l=thebeerboy.blogspot.com
More... (http://thebeerboy.blogspot.com/2010/12/open-it-lexington-brewing-co-kentucky.html)