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

 

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