{"id":2246,"date":"2017-11-15T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:18:49","slug":"beyond-bottle-whats-favorite-barrel-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-whats-favorite-barrel-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: What\u2019s Your Favorite Barrel for Beer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Rare Beer Club is featuring two barrel-aged beers this month: Nebraska Brewing Co.\u2019s HopAnomaly, aged in French-oak Chardonnay barrels, and American Solera\u2019s The Ground Is Shaking!, which spent eighteen-plus months inside of Vin Santo wine casks from Italy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty remarkable to consider how much the act of barrel-aging beers has taken off over the course of 25-ish years. Before I left All About Beer <\/em>this fall to get back to freelancing, we had Jeff Alworth take on the history of Goose Island\u2019s Bourbon County Brand Stout, which was the first barrel-aged beer of its kind when it was created in the early 1990s. (Jeff has been doing great stuff in his Classic Beer column, and this one is definitely worth checking out for a deep-dive into barrel lore.) We\u2019ve quickly gone from a time when aging beers in barrels was a pretty weird thing to do\u2014even the now-conventional stuff, like bourbon, brandy or rum\u2014to our rather different present circumstances. You\u2019ll find beers aged in Fernet barrels, Grand Marnier barrels, maple-syrup barrels and tabasco barrels. It\u2019s approaching true that any food-ish product that gets barrel-aged itself has had some of its resulting barrels used to age beer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, aside from tabasco, obviously, what\u2019s your favorite type of barrel for beer?<\/p>\n

My first thought was whiskey or brandy, just considering all of the exceptional BA imperial stouts and barleywines over the years. I\u2019ll often get a lot of chalkiness from Brett beers aged in red-wine barrels, and tequila and I have an evolving relationship\u2014so no to both of those. While I rarely drink Chardonnay (we\u2019re generally Pinot people), it\u2019s Chardonnay barrels that I\u2019ve personally found most intriguing expressed in beer, especially with a pale base. Russian River\u2019s Temptation. Side Project\u2019s Saison du Fermier. Anchorage Bitter Monk. Yes, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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