2005-6 Ebenezer and Sun Devil Liquors

Evening all!

It's been a bitch of a day, and I'm finally getting down to a brew to celebrate the end of it! I'm enjoying the last of my batch of 2005-6 bottling of Bridgeport Ebenezer Winter Warmer. Yes, I did say the 05-06 bottling which makes this particular bottle of brew over a year old in the bottle! I do say that the hint of juniper in the normal bottle of Ebenezer grows into a flavor that represents what your neighbor Little Timmy grew into after going out for the football team as a 120lb. soph and morphs into a 6'2" 185lb Strong Safety w/5% body fat as a senior, and then continues to play in your pick up "tackle football in the mud" games over Christmas break and then pops you in Da Mouth and knocks out a couple teeth - but in a good way.

How does one get a bottle of beer aged over a year, one might ask. Well this is where I tell ya!

Many moons ago, I was first introduced to beer aged in the bottle by a friendly storekeeper @ the infamous Liquorama liquor store just minutes away from Harvey Mudd College . He highly suggested that I purchase the Samual Adams Holiday Sampler (not sure if that's what it's called) because the Cranberry Lambic and Cream Stout grow both more complex in flavor and smoother in texture after having aged for a year; and he just drank the only other aged Sampler in his possession. Needless to say, I didn't pass him up on this excellent opportunity, and I learned at a young age - younger than the legal drinking age if I recall correctly - about the pleasures of beer aged in the bottle.

Now to the present - I was turned on to a great local purveyor of both the hops & barley brews and the more refined spirit from the grape in Mesa, AZ known by the moniker: Sun Devil Liquors. It was there that I discovered A CASE of this aged Ebenezer. Sun Devil Liquors, although less conveniently located compared to BevMo (see previous post) for my current Chandler address, contains many more aisles dedicated to the hops & barley brews. This case of aged Ebenezer was only one of my many finds from the last Sun Devil Excursion.

So please, pursue beers aged in the bottle - esp. of the Stout, Porter, Barley Wine (Rogue is offering flights of it's Old Crustacean Barley Wine!) Budwaster Born on Dating Bites!

Prost!