V12!!

Wooo! Got my shipment of 4 bottles of Victory V12 and have a couple of bottles of Russian River Redemption headed my way as well. The latter

*could* be a nice session beer as it's only 4.8%abv.

Personal plug:

I've updated my Beer Stores online generic website recently by adding more stores and adding, where possible, either the states they can or cannot ship to. I've also added a couple of stores that *don't* ship to Wyoming and 2 European stores: The Belgian Shop(ships pretty much everywhere) and The Drink Shop, based out of the UK, that caters to the UK and European continent.

More to come, I guarantee you!

Bottom line: If 1 person finds the info useful, my work is done.

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Bill Becker
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Wow! This Aug 27, 2004 bottled on brew is fantastic. Wonderful in all the points that count and the 12% abv is so well hidden. Absolutely no burn at all! ;^)

I can't believe Victory has retired it. Anyone know the story behind that?? Lew?

Reply to
Bill Becker

V10 was retired, not, to the best of my knowledge, V12.

Reply to
Lew Bryson

I was pretty much going by their website where they list only one beer under their V series....a new Saison. If the V12 is still being brewed, I'm all for that! ;^) Btw, have you tried the Saison yet? I loved Dupont but had less than stellar feelings about Rogue Festive.(Haven't found or tried Fantome yet)

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Bill Becker

The V10 that I bought (first release) was a wonderful beer, but whether it was a bottling issue, cork issue, what have you did not cellar favorably. The fresh was a wonderfully fruity beer and fine drinking all 'round. The bottles I cellared ended up as slightly sour, rather boring ales. Haven't tried cellaring the 12s...sounds like it may be worth a shot. The Saison is a tasty beer. I liked it at least as much as the DuPont and that was a fresh Saison vs. aged DuPont. I'd also recommend Ommegang's Hennepin if you're a fan of the Saison (that cellars pleasantly as well...the bottle of cave aged from the brewery was quite nice)

Bill

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Bill Bradley

I'm a huge fan of saisons; now I'm going to have to get some of Victory's.

I thought the Festive Ale pretty much missed the boat entirely. Not, to my taste, a pleasant beer. Something harsh about it, and of course, the damn carbonation is way too low.

--Jeff Frane

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jeff.frane

Dupont is exquisite, one of my very favorite beers of any type. The Victory Saison was "less than stellar" (I like that!) on draft, and I was a bit wary of the bottle, but even a few weeks made a great improvement. I'm looking forward to trying some that's got some real age on it.

Reply to
Lew Bryson

Jeff, let me know if you can't readily put your hands on the "V" series in your area. There's a bottle of Victory Saison in my cellar that just might have your name on it 8-)

Jack

Reply to
jmowbray

Hoo hah!

Belmont Station has stocked V12, but I suspect they haven't seen any new stock in quite awhile. Everything has to come through Columbia Distributing, and they're notorious for missing good offerings like this.

A nice offer. In March, Full Sail will be bottling their wonderful Equinox in 22 oz bottles, after several years of it being among the missing. I think it might make a nice trade.

--Jeff Frane

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jeff.frane

Are you sure that name isn't "Joel"? ;-)

Reply to
Joel

Jeff, I can't find your snaily from before - please resend. There might also be enough room in the box for a stogie or 2.....

Jack

jmowbray at verizon dot net

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jmowbray

Joel - yes, I might have misspelled the name. Please send snaily.

Jack

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jmowbray

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