10 More Award Winning American Beers For Your Cellar (Part 2)
By jason on Nov 8, 2007 in Featured, Recommendations
The Abyss - The best beer in America?
Welcome to the second (and last) part of my series pointing out some medal-winning beers from the recently held Great American Beer Festival that should be great to cellar. Part 1 of this series focused on Belgian-Styled brews, while Part 2 has a focus on bocks, stouts, and strong old ales. Once again, I limited my selections to those brews that we have at least a chance to find and cellar; beers only available on tap or with a very limited release have not been listed. On to the beers!
The Abyss-Deschutes Brewery - This gold medal winning Imperial Stout has already become legendary among beer enthusiasts. A recent post on RateBeer.com broke the news that there’s going to be a 2007 version of this amazing beer hitting the shelves in December! Do NOT miss it!
Two beers with the same name (and not a very original one at that) took home medals. Russian Imperial Stout from Sacremento Brewing and Russian Imperial Stout from Rouge Ales both took home bronze medals in two different stout-related categories!
Tommyknocker brewery in Idaho Springs Colorado won a pair of bronze medals with their Strong Ale style Imperial Nut Brown Ale and a Bock named Butthead Bock. The Imperial Nut Brown Ale sounds especially intriguing…
Star Brew Triple Wheat Ale - Marin Brewing in California - Gold medal winner in the American-style Wheat Wine Ale category.
Troegenator- Troegs Brewing - Check out my buddy Eric’s recent post about this beer over at Trouble Brewing
A pair of Barleywines also make the list with gold medal winner John Barley Corn Barleywine from Mad River Brewing in Blue Lake, California and Michigan’s Arcadia Brewing Cereal Killer Barley Wine with the silver medal.
And finally, I give you Derail Ale by Durango Brewing Co. From the description on the website I think this one is available in bottles, but I’m not 100% sure. Can anybody confirm?
As always, thanks for reading everyone!
Jason
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Thanks for the link, Jason.
I have my doubts about how well Troegenator will age because I know how good it tastes fresh from the brewery.
But I know from reading your blog you don’t shy away from risky cellaring experiments.
I don’t have any Troegenator left, but I do have some Salvator. I think I’ll cart a sixer of it to the basement and see what happens.
Eric Trimmer | Nov 9, 2007 | Reply
Just got my case of Abyss. It’s pouring here in Seattle at Uber and Collins Pub right now, as well. Still packing a bit of an alcohol-y punch, but I’m guessing it will smooth out very nicely.
I do have to say, however, that Stone’s IRS was on at Uber a few weeks ago and it was even better than I had remembered — dare I say, as good as the Abyss.
geoff | Jan 28, 2008 | Reply
My case is on route as we speak!
For some reason we don’t seem to get Stone’s IRS up here, although I see most of their other brews in stock. I think I’m going to have to order up some….
jason | Jan 28, 2008 | Reply