Yea, it's a little run down old corner store, but he selection is pretty awesome
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I need to go get one more to send off as a thank you to someone mulling some new glarus for me
quote:E First is a good suggestion, but those beers are pretty readily available at a lot of stores here. Central Market had several of Green House yesterday. Pretty sure I saw Sweep the Leg at WhichCraft. Sunrise Minimart on anderson is an excellent beer store as well
Any suggestions for bottle shops/beer stores in Austin and which beers to pick up that I can't get in Houston??
Greenhouse
Infamous PB Stout
Others??
quote:I stopped by Sunrise and they have about 1 and a half cases remaining of their 5 case allotment. 2 bottle limit.
Funky gold Amarillo is being released today.
Hopefully austin will have plenty cause I won't be there till next Friday.
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So... word on the street is Abyss is going for close to $20 at the Houston area HEB's...
If this is truly the going rate... I'm out.
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"Sweep The Leg" Peanut Butter Stout Ale. "This product contains nuts."
BOTTLE: 650ml. Brown glass. Uninteresting label art. Unbranded pry-off pressure cap.
Purchased locally and served into a snifter at low altitude in Austin, TX. Reviewed live as an American stout per the label. Expectations are average given the brewery. Served cold and allowed to warm over the course of consumption.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Fleeting. A khaki colour quarter-finger wide head forms but recedes to a floater ring within ten seconds, leaving no time for me to note its characteristics. The ring dwindles for another 20 seconds or so, and is fairly creamy and of average thickness. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Opaque solid black. Has a mirror sheen to it. Quite dark. No yeast particulate or hop sediment is visible.
It looks like a stout, sure, but it's far from unique or special looking. The lack of head is concerning. Appears undercarbonated.
AROMA: Now it gets interesting. It's indeed quite nutty, evoking peanut, hazelnut, walnut, and pecan. I'm accustomed to caramelization in nutty stouts, but none is present here. It's also not cloyingly sweet, which was one of my fears. But it does have plenty of sweetness, seemingly from dark malts and a healthy amount of chocolate malts. Peanut butter and nutella are both evoked. It's not the clear distinct peanut butter character you might expect if, say, Southern Tier made a peanut butter beer, but it's noticeable enough. There's even a kiss of roasted barley in there...thank God! I also pick up on cream and a lighter (perhaps flaked) malt presence.
Aromatic intensity is mild. No yeast character, alcohol, or off-notes are detectable. Most critically, it doesn't come off artificial like you might expect it to; I was worried about artificial flavors but this seems quite genuine.
TASTE/TEXTURE: Peanut butter all the way, soaring in the third act and lingering into the aftertaste; this beer has a long flavour duration. It's a shame the mouthfeel isn't more coating or creamy, which would help it nicely. But it is aptly smooth and wet, and has a slight stickiness. The thickness and weight on the palate are off the mark considering the premise of this beer, which would be better served by a fuller body and a less sticky feel. Overall, the texture largely fails to support the taste. It's weirdly undercarbonated - almost to the point where it comes off weak - to boot.
Turning back to the taste, the malt backbone is weak, offering only generic (and somewhat watered down) chocolate malts and dark malts with their concomitant high sweetness. Yeast attenuation seems low. As it warms, some notes of caramelized pecan emerge, but not the hazelnut and walnut I thought I found in the aroma. Actual peanuts (vis a vis peanut butter) aren't really evoked, to its detriment. But it doesn't taste as artificial as I anticipated.
I wouldn't call it balanced; the weird peanut butter note dominates, and I do find it quite one-dimensional. While it's disappointingly simple and lacks the roasted barley that should be at the heart of any good stout, I don't dislike it and I think they've largely succeeded at executing the premise. There's no real subtlety or nuance of note. Depth of flavour is relatively shallow, unfortunately.
To its credit, there're no off-notes, nor is it boozy, oily, gushed, hot, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy on the palate.
OVERALL: It's not the gimmick beer it could be, nor is it the peanut butter bomb you might hope for. But it could taste less artificial, and it's not undrinkable - though it will require serious effort for me to finish the bottle alone on account of its stickiness and sweetness. This is best shared four or more ways. I wouldn't buy a second bottle and I continue to be underwhelmed by Infamous' work, but this beer will find its fans. Take away the novelty of the peanut butter and this would be a horrid stout.
Low C-
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20 for abyss? I'll probably just drink my 2013 and call it good
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BBA Legion made it to Austin?!?!?! Ugh
You're lucky I found Karbach BBH at HEB or I was on my way to East 1st!
quote:Nice. I gotta track one of those down or hope some kegs are still left.
Found a Karbach 006 cherries of fire in the fridge. Still tasting great!
quote:Texas neckbeards be crazy
There will be lines of neckbeards lining up at every bottle shop in TX to get Sucaba
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There will be lines of neckbeards lining up at every bottle shop in TX to get Sucaba