BadMoon's Beer Reviews

[Darth Waller]

The best time of year for beer!

 

[BadMoon]

This is a story from my home town. The brewery is about 5 minutes away from where I work.

Limited edition beer draws fans to Harrisburg brewery
Posted: Sep 16, 2010 3:41 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 16, 2010 3:41 PM EDT
Beer lovers lined up long and early Thursday morning when the Troegs Brewery in Harrisburg debuted its limited edition "Splinter Blue."

Matt Antram made the drive from Pittsburgh and camped out in the line that began Wednesday night, even though sales didn't start until 8 a.m.

"Troegs, they make nothing better, they're the best," Antram said. "The atmosphere, the people, the brewery - this is what beer's about."

Splinter Blue is a very limited edition beer. Troegs brewed just 400 bottles and limited each customer to two. Even at $22.95 a bottle, they were tapped out in no time.

"This is kind of a one time only thing," co-owner Chris Trogner said. 'We don't have anything on the books right now to brew it again. It is very much an experimental batch for us. We hope to learn from it, and if it's successful, we'll certainly try it again."

Troegs plans to do more limited edition brewing when it moves to its new facility in Derry Township next year.

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[wofford29]

$22.95 for a limited beer of just 400 is cheap as ____. That's a good deal if it tastes good.

 

[BadMoon]

$22.95 for a limited beer of just 400 is cheap as ____. That's a good deal if it tastes good.

It sounds like it tastes amazing!

Splinter Blue will be available at Troegs Brewery on Thursday, September 16 at 10 a.m. There is a two-bottle limit per person, and the price is $22.95 for a 750 ml bottle. We have approximately 400 bottles available for sale.

What is Splinter Blue?

Splinter Blue combines three of our favorite things – DreamWeaver, tart cherries, and Brettanyomyces. To begin this process we fermented DreamWeaver wort with Belgian/Lambic yeast blend. After a complete fermentation, we aged the beer in oak barrels with wild yeast and souring bacteria for one year, and then added eighty pounds of tart cherries for another six months of aging. Splinter Blue pours a cloudy rose color with copious carbonation and a Brettanyomyces yeast funk.

The beer's effervescence highlights its sharp acidic cherry flavor, followed by a doughy cereal-like finish that lets you know there's wheat in there.

 

[wofford29]

Did you ever see the Brew Dog "The End of History" limited beer a few months back? So absurd it was well beyond awesome. $800 a bottle though.

 

[BadMoon]

Did you ever see the Brew Dog "The End of History" limited beer a few months back? So absurd it was well beyond awesome. $800 a bottle though.

No I didn't. Did you try some?

 

[wofford29]

No I didn't. Did you try some?

No, there were only like 11 bottles or something. The bottles came packaged in taxedermied road kill. No joke. Google it. It sold out really quickly. Come October I like to get Witches Brew for the season so I'm looking forward to that. It's been awhile.

 

[BadMoon]

No, there were only like 11 bottles or something. The bottles came packaged in taxedermied road kill. No joke. Google it. It sold out really quickly. Come October I like to get Witches Brew for the season so I'm looking forward to that. It's been awhile.

WOW! Crazy stuff!

 

[Bannister]

WOW! Crazy stuff!

Amazing.

 

[BadMoon]

Amazing.

You should see the alcohol content. 44%!!!

 

[The Ringer]

Try breaking that bottle over someones head.

 

[Bannister]

You should see the alcohol content. 44%!!!

Amazinger!!!!!!

 

[praxitas]

WOW! Crazy stuff!

There is way to much awesome in that picture.

 

[VASith]

Doing tours of pumpkin beers now...currently drinking

Dogfish Head Punkin
Southern Tier Pumking
Smuttynose Pumpkin
New Holland Ichabod Ale

 

[Maglor]

I love Pumpkin ales.

 

[BadMoon]

Doing tours of pumpkin beers now...currently drinking

Dogfish Head Punkin
Southern Tier Pumking
Smuttynose Pumpkin
New Holland Ichabod Ale

Try Post Road Pumpkin Ale by Brooklyn Brewing Company. I think it's the best.

 

[Darth Waller]

Doing tours of pumpkin beers now...currently drinking

Dogfish Head Punkin
Southern Tier Pumking
Smuttynose Pumpkin
New Holland Ichabod Ale

Only had one of those...

I love Pumpkin ales.

... because we don't get enough down here in Houston.

 

[VASith]

Try Post Road Pumpkin Ale by Brooklyn Brewing Company. I think it's the best.

I actually like that one the least. Didn't even buy it this year...it's a little too light for a pumpkin beer. It's not awful but not in my top five.

 

[Darth Waller]

The best pumpkin ale I've had is brewed by Schlafly's in St. Louis. It's like liquid pumpkin pie.

 

[wofford29]

There is a massive pumpkin shortage this year so it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of these pumpkin brews effected as well.