 click logo to go back to Suds Club page Bomb Shelter Suds Club. Imperial Stouts Beer Tasting Wednesday January 5, 2011 7pm - $25 per person. 20 + C + M + B + 11 Before the start of Suds Club this week will be the Epiphany blessing of the bar or chalking of the door. We are accepting non-perishable food donations for the Riverwest Food Pantry. You will get a free punch on your Suds Club card for any donations. 
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For the last Suds Club beer tasting of 2010 we wanted to out do our last tasting of 2009 of Strong beers featuring Samuel Adams Utopias. All Imperial Stouts with high ABV's including some extremly rare and hard to get beers that most will never have the opportunity to try. This one's not for the faint hearted, and we strongly recommend you eat a meal before coming to this tasting...it's going to knock you off your bar stool! All beer geeks want to try these beers but frankly the chances of Santa bringing us a bottle of Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout 2010, or Rare Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout, a beer that will never be made again...is slim, so we added these to the last Suds Club beer tasting of 2010! Which has been moved to our first tasting of 2011, since the TV show Bomb Shelter is on 'Drinking Made Easy' airs the last Wednesday of 2011! What better way to kick off the new year! This tasting of rare beers is value priced at only $25 per person.
Beers in the tasting: 1. Southern Tier Creme Brulee Imperial Milk Stout, 10%. 2. Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout 2010, 15%. 3. Central Waters Satin Solstice Imperial Stout, 7.5%. 4. Dogfish Head World Wide Imperial Stout, 18%. 5. Grand Teton Black Cauldron Imperial Stout, 8%. 6. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy Imperial Stout, 10.5%. 7. Leinenkugel’s Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout, 10%. 8. Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Imperial Stout 2010, 13%. 9. Goose Island Bourbon County Rare Imperial Stout, 13%. 10.Left Hand Imperial Stout, 10.2%. About Rare Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout 13%: This beer was aged for 2 years in 23 year old Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon barrels only 11,200 bottles were produced and every one is individually hand numbered. Only 60 bottles were shipped to Wisconsin, of these 60 bottles only 6 went to bars, Bomb Shelter has two! "This stout was aged for two years in the finest old barrels Goose Island has used in it's 18 years of bourbon barrel-aging beers! A true rarity - savor and share it only with those you hold dear, as it will never be made again. Cheers!" - Gregory Hall, Brewmaster. "Very special barrels were filled with Bourbon in Bardstown, Kentucky, way back in 1985. At the time, craft brewing was in it's infancy with just a few pioneering small breweries paving the way for what would be a flavor explosion over the next twenty-five years. Never having brewed beer for a living, my Dad John Hall, quit his day job in 1988 to open Goose Island and join the ranks of craft breweries. When I first brewed Bourbon County Stout in 1992, I had no idea what I was starting. In truth, I was just trying to make a really huge beer to celebrate the one-hundreth batch at our brewpub, not begin a barrel-aging revolution in America. Nevertheless, that is exactly what happened three years later in 1995, when I entered Bourbon County Stout at the Great American Beer Festival for the first time. Kicked out of the judging for not fitting into a style category, it was so adored by beer lovers at the fest that it sent other American craft brewers off in a whirlwind of expermentation that has resulted in hundreds of amazing barrel-aged beers since then. Lo and behold, in 2008, sixteen years after making my first Bourbon County, those special twenty-three-year-old barrels filled in Bardstown back in 1985 were emptied and sent to Goose Island. Extremely rare, the barrels were filled with Bourbon County Stout, aged for two years, and have resulted in a beer that I believe to be the finest Goose Island has ever produced in it's eighteen years of barrel-aging stout. Cheers!" - Gregory Hall, Brewmaster. Style: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Alcohol by Volume: 13% International Bitterness Units: 60 Color: Midnight Hops: Willamette Malt: 2-Row, Munich, Chocolate, Caramel, Roast Barley, Debittered Black 
Each year at the festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer in Chicago, drinkers enjoy hundreds of wood aged beers. Goose Island poured this beer at the 2009 fest, and drinkers loved it so much they decided they had to bottle it. Only 60 bottles were shipped to Wisconsin, of these 60 bottles only 6 went to bars, Bomb Shelter has two! Style: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Vanilla Stout Alcohol by Volume: 13% International Bitterness Units: 60 Color: Midnight Hops: Willamette Malt: 2-Row, Munich, Chocolate, Caramel, Roast Barley, Debittered Black 
A demonic Russian Style Imperial Stout, brewed with Intelligensia coffee Mexican vanilla, and Indian sugar, and an ABV of 15% this beer defies description, available one day a year in April at the brewery in Munster, Dark Lord Day. You must buy a ticket months in advance just to be able to buy this beer. The only beer in the World with a day named after it 'Dark Lord Day'. Dark Lord Day is the only day of the year to buy Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial stout. DLD is a festival where participants can meet other beer enthusiasts, sample beers from all over the world, buy Dark Lord, try Oak Aged Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, eat BBQ, listen to live music, and generally have a great time. 
For those not familiar with the Suds Club, it's a beer tasting club that meets every Wednesday 7pm at the Bomb Shelter. With over 600 registered members it is Milwaukee's only weekly beer tasting club where we sample a minimum of 8 beers every week. Membership is open to the public, all you have to do show up and sign up for a one time membership fee of $7. Tastings consist of a history of the beer and brewery; we bring in brew masters, brewery owners, distributors, importers, and sales reps to tell you about their beers. Any given night the crowd is stocked with brewers from here in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Beer Barons, home brewers and beer geeks...so if you've got a question we've most likely have someone on hand with the answer. About Epiphany Inscription Over the Doorway: The letters have two meanings. They are the initials of the traditional names of the Three Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. They also abbreviate the Latin words Christus mansionem benedicat. May Christ bless the house. The letters recall the day on which the inscription is made, as well as the purpose of blessing. The crosses represent the protection of the Precious Blood of Christ, Whose Sacred Name we invoke, and also the holiness of the Three Magi sanctified by their adoration of the Infant Christ. The inscription is made above the front door, so that all who enter and depart this year may enjoy God's blessing. The month of January still bears the name of the Roman god Janus, the doorkeeper of heaven and protector of the beginning and end of things. This blessing "christens" the ancient Roman observance of the first month. The inscription is made of chalk, a product of clay, which recalls the human nature taken by the Adorable and Eternal Word of God in the womb of the Virgin Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit. To bless your home this Epiphany, first read the Prologue of Saint John's Gospel, followed by the Our Father, and the Collect of the Epiphany; then write the inscription for this year above your front door with blessed chalk. Officiating will be Ms. Patricia Beirne who is Pastoral Associate at Our Lady of Divine Providence Parish and who did the chalking last year. The Riverwest Food Pantry will accept all non-perishables but is in need of Tuna Fish at this time. All help is appreciated. |
Photos of some of the rare beers in the tasting:
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