Oct 22, 2011

Our Tastes-- BlackStone Pistol Peat

Color is awesome on this beer, a great light medium brown with slight red highlights. Head is a creamy light tan and a nose of light smoke. Wow, taste is phenomenal! The flavor of smoky malts comes through and the play on name is key here. This already has me craving some BBQ ribs or smoked meats. Named after Pistol Pete Maravich, according to Junk. This is a brew that you could put up there with SUE from Yazoo. Lattice work leaves me re-pouring. Another keepsie. And a real plus, you'd never guess it was almost 9%abv. Guess that helps bring forth the "peat-ness".

Our Tastes-- BlackStone Blackfin Lager

Oh boy, Junk legged us some new BS beers and one of them is Blackfin Lager. It pours a nice opaque dark brown with dissipating head. Nose is of a lager yeast that completely defies that overall taste profile. Taste is a great slightly hopped smoke, yep it's a schwarz beer. I've only had a couple of this type of beer with Jamie Ray's at MBP [now closed;( ]being my first a couple of years ago. This is a great departure from the "normal" selection of beers at your local watering hole. Red (denoted here in pink) did well, no doubt.

Oct 21, 2011

Junk In The House

The prodigal friend returns, or actually appears for the first time, at the now Pike Road founding chapter. And it's good to have him here. After face-painting the first part of the night, I'm more inclined to sip brews and catch up on man talk with he and The Enabler. Oh yeah, we brought the party with us. I'm already a little enamoured with having all under the same roof again, like GABF 2010, miss Red (denoted here in pink) though:( However, the assistant brewer did send his love in the form of BS growlers. I wonder if we need to start doing BS beers on ratebeer.com as well as his forum for all to read? Seems rather metaphorical AND literal to say the Red (denoted here in pink) is with us here in "spirits"? I knew it was going to be another memorable gathering when we were 2 beers in and I had him at ......