Woodmoor Beer Appreciation Society
Society Archives Tasting
21 July 2007
The society reached into the beer fridge archives to pull out a some rare and unusual beers to sample. The beer fridge was established at WBAS Headquarters in 1997 and has held at times as many as 180 different beers. Through the years, bottles of certain beers were locked away in the archives for special occasions. This night was once such time.
First on the tasting menu were 3 different years of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale (2001, 2004, and 2007 expeditions). Next we tried 2 years of Brooklyn Brewery's Monster Ale (2000 and 2003), followed by Dominion Brewing's Millenium Ale bottled in 1999. We moved on to 3 years of Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate Stout (2002, 2003 and 2006). Also on the tasting list were Worldwide Stout and 120 minute IPA from Dogfish Head, Thomas Hardy's Ale (1996), Sam Adams Triple Bock (1999), John Barleycorn Barleywine Ale, and Allagash Curieux (2006). That pretty much exhausted the archives and it will be up to the members to start stocking up again for another archives tasting sometime in the future.
We had a record 14 tasters although nobody sampled all offerings. Big Foot (2001) was by far the favorite with an average score of 42.33 followed by Big Foot 2004 (37). A number of beers scored at 36 (Black Chocolate Stout 2002 and 2006 and DogFish Head 120 Minute IPA). The least favorite was John Barleycorn Barleywine Ale which scored 26.2. Complete results by taster are shown in the table below. We welcomed 2 new Friends of the WBAS - John and Eric. Lindsey achieved member status with participation in her 5th event, but due to technical difficulties could not be presented with her certificate.
..........................A full table gets to work.................................New WBAS Friends John and Eric
Dan | Lindesy | Russ | Nick | Chris | Tom | Sue | Lisa | Eliot | Doug | Bob | Brad | Eric | John | AVG | ||
Bigfoot 2001 Sierra Nevada | 42 | 37 | 43 | 47 | 46 | 39 | 42.33 | |||||||||
Bigfoot 2004 Sierra Nevada | 38 | 36 | 35 | 46 | 23 | 40 | 41 | 37 | ||||||||
Bigfoot 2007 Sierra Nevada | 37 | 40 | 38 | 31 | 46 | 35 | 27 | 33 | 32 | 42 | 31 | 27 | 34.91 | |||
Monster 2000 Brooklyn Brewery | 31 | 26 | 31 | 26 | 32 | 29 | 37 | 40 | 19 | 30.11 | ||||||
Monster 2003 Brooklyn Brewery | 31 | 34 | 31 | 27 | 28 | 37 | 35 | 27 | 31.25 | |||||||
Millenium Ale 1999 Dominion Brewery | 39 | 34 | 28 | 18 | 34 | 24 | 23 | 28.57 | ||||||||
Thomas Hardy's Ale 1996 | 19 | 45 | 16 | 38 | 26 | 33 | 34 | 28 | 22 | 29 | ||||||
Worldwide Stout Dogfish Head | 23 | 33 | 36 | 27 | 41 | 40 | 33 | 33.28 | ||||||||
Black Chococlate Stout 2002 Brooklyn Brewery | 36 | 34 | 42 | 39 | 41 | 26 | 36.33 | |||||||||
Black Chococlate Stout 2003 Brooklyn Brewery | 31 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 41 | 28 | 34.66 | |||||||||
Black Chococlate Stout 2006 Brooklyn Brewery | 41 | 35 | 30 | 38 | 46 | 27 | 36.16 | |||||||||
120 Minute IPA Dogfish Head | 25 | 29 | 47 | 28 | 43 | 32 | 32 | 39 | 44 | 41 | 36 | |||||
Curieux Allagash Brewery | 26 | 34 | 35 | 31 | 40 | 43 | 34.83 | |||||||||
John Barleycorn | 22 | 21 | 33 | 28 | 27 | 26.2 | ||||||||||
Sam Adams TripleBock | 41 | 22 | 29 | 30.66 |
......Newest WBAS member - Lindsey..............................Eliot tallies a score
In addition to the good beers, members and friends also had an opportunity to sample some oddities from the beer fridge. Especially popular were the Japanese mini cans (courtesy of Van)
.....Mike demonstrates technique......................Brad, Russ and Scott master the mini can