Tag: Sampler Pack

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Flaviar – Test Drive

I have been meaning to do a test subscription to Flaviar. And at the beginning of the month, I hopped onto the lowest price that I had seen. And I received…

An etched bottle of Islay (Scotland) gin that I had eyed for awhile, a magazine with short punchy articles that I thought were good plus QR codes aplenty. Finally, the centerpiece was a container with three rye whiskies.

This variety trio had Copper Fox, Rossville Union and Bender’s included. Very fancy packaging and a healthy sample of each plus note coasters with flavor profiles for you to help guide your tasting.

Bender’s was my winner with nutmeg and cinnamon spicing and Copper Fox my least favorite owing to its being a smoke bomb. Rossville Union was too smokey for my taste but at least had a balance as other flavors like chocolate and vanilla shone a bit as well.

I bought this myself so I am valuing this on my own dime. The packaging and information makes this worth it and the fact thar you can explore through many spirits and sub-styles is great. My suggestion is to by a big bottle of a spirit you need or of something you know you will use and then use the tasters to explore and find that bottle you want to go big on later.

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Sample the Boulevard

BOULEVARD

Boulevard Brewing Company’s is changing up how you will get their newest beers. It will be in their “Sample Twelve” package which “will feature three bottles each of two exclusive Tasting Room beers.”

I don’t normally buy sampler packs.  Space is an issue (because my fridge is usually pretty full).  But also because there are sometimes clinkers in the pack.  Something you now have three or four of to drink or pawn off on someone else.  But….

More from their press release: “The first two new beers included in the pack are Westside Rye Ale, a sessionable beer with a slightly spicy character, and Mid-Coast I.P.A. —at 100-plus IBU’s, the hoppiest member of Boulevard’s current family. Unfiltered Wheat Beer and 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer will round out the initial Sample Twelve lineup.”

Because, we in L.A. are just getting some Boulevard and I happen to see this sampler, it will be all new beers for me and will be good to split with a drinking buddy.  (looking at you, Cap’n)

The 12 pack will be  “rotated with new selections in early 2014.”