Tag: Barrel-Aged beer

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Anvil & Stave

photo from AleSmith.
photo from AleSmith.

This month, AleSmith Brewing is opening Anvil & Stave: A Barrel-Aged Beer Experience inside their already open tap room. Once inside you will be able to blend your own barrel-aged beers.
Final details are not set in concrete but you be offered a menu from the vast stockpile of bourbon and other barrels and allowed to “design” a blend much like ordering a taster tray. Give me 25% of this + 30% of this + 15% of this, up to 100%.

The finished product would be handed to you from behind the bar and you would sit and enjoy. There remains the possibility that you would be able to do the actual pouring work at some point but that, of course, might require a different set of rules and procedures.

Either way, this is a great way to appreciate what the master blenders are doing. There will be trial and error which would be a good name for a blender, now that I think about it.

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That’s a lot of Wishes

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If your wishes weren’t answered during Year1 of Smog City’s release of Infinite Wishes their bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout, well you get another chance tomorrow with the online pre-sale. The brewery calls it “bourbon chocolate pie” and boy does that sound delicious.

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#BABeerDay

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Hey! Did you know that today is Barrel Aged Beer Day? First started in 2013 to get the beer world to raise a snifter (not a pint) to celebrate the beer that is made better by sitting around lazily in barrels.

One way to celebrate the barrel would be at Barrel Down in DTLA tonight. You will find some “fun BA stuff on tap that doesn’t get out there much such as Wineification II, Smoking Wood mole, Barrel-Aged 6 Geese, White Oak.”

More info HERE.

Or you can sit around lazily yourself and get the hashtag #BABeerDay ready to go viral on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And don’t leave it at the one hashtag. Show some love to the brewery that let the beer sit instead of selling it.