Beer Snobbery

Eh, or not. If 95% of the time you are disappointed, I'm not sure I would keep trying for that 1 in 20 complex beer.

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Joel
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That is excellent news.

I had thought that Boon was just a blender, too. Did he start brewing at a later date?

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

There will probably be more about this as it progresses.

Yes. Frank Boon added a brewery, and now Boon has emerged as one of the primary suppliers of wort and blending lambics. Hanssens and De Cam are the only two left that exclusively blend. With the dwindling number of lambic brewers left, that's probably about as many as can be supported.

I've visited the Boon brewery and aging cellar(s). Got to go through the brewery right at the end of a wort boil, with steam everywhere, very dense and foggy, making climbing the steps up to the grain storage and mill at the top of the brewhouse rather interesting. Most of the facility is still taken up with a *lot* of oak barrels and racks of bottles.

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dgs

"Steve Jackson" wrote in news:oZZig.1514$h46.55@trnddc07:

Consistency is not something I look for in a Lambic - Joel is splot on about that. But something that is drinkable more often than not...If it didn't come out well that year, market it as vinegar.

I've not had one of those.

Hanssen's and Oud Beersel (both hand-carried by friends neither of which were you or the dipfuck Shite)...some of the most exquisite beer I've ever had. Cantillon - I'm tellin' ya, if you like it you can make gallons of it.

'Member that Rose d' Gammie I had at Naja's? I'll have to go ahead and admit that it didn't suck. Outstanding? Not even close. But enjoyable. Like most of what I say here and elsewhere, I ordered the RdG just to check in and it did not suck. But there wasn't a whole lot to it. Hard yes, fruit evident... Not so bad and a relative bargain as I remember at $12/750ml.

Splot

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Scott Kaczorowski

What I'm saying.

And yet...You are after that 5%. I defer to you.

But at $15/$18 for a 750ml, I can think of MANY beers at half that price that I know I will enjoy.

Go nuts.

Let me/us know when my $17 is worth the effort.

Snott

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Scott Kaczorowski

I have. Lou Pepe. Deal.

The dipfuck Shite never comes down to L.A., and probably won't any time ever. Just ain't motivated to. Got other places to go, and there's only so much time. So the dipfuck Shite can't rightly hand-carry something to someplace he ain't going.

Dunno why it has to be hand-carried, though. I can buy both Hanssen's and Oud Beersel locally (last stocks of old stuff plus new versions from Boon), as well as Boon, Cantillon, and Girardin. Lindemans has gone too far over to the dark side for me to care about as much as I might have at one time. It would be fine if Mort Subite Oude Gueuze was around, but it ain't, or St-Louis Selection Lambic, or De Cam Gueuze or Kriek. I'll have to make my way over to Belgium for those, I guess.

Nah. It's from Belgium. They make it in hectoliters.

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dgs

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