2 Amazing aged beers

I’m not one to be able to keep beers for a long time, let alone long enough to age. One of the few good local beer shops has been having a sale recently and a LOT of the stuff is just no-go, but they do have some darker stronger stuff that would keep or age, and it seems they are storing the stuff relatively well. The two I purchased, and their reviews:

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine 2017
Packages 23 Feb 2017 Drank 16 August 2019.
Aroma is very rich, caramel, burnt sugar, dark fruits, plum pudding, prunes, figs, pumpernickle bread, malty, lovely.
Appearance is a dark amber, slighly cloudy, slightly tan-ish head thats quite thick and lingers leaving thick tan lacing.
Taste is initially a boozy indecipherable hit then straight into a big broad bitterness, bitterring hops and grapefruit pith. Then cocoa, burnt sugar, dark roast and black malts, a cognac-like boozyness, coffee grounds. very malty, very rich, no sweetness at all. Very big, very full on, then it subsides leaving a hoppy bitterness on the tongue before it becomes cloying or overbearing. That hoppy bitterness just lingers on.
The mouthfeel is surprisingly light, slight viscosity that fades and a light carbonation.
I do not usually enjoy Bigfoot very much when i drink it fresh – the year its made. I was lucky to find this at my LBS and its the first time I have had a barley wine with a few years on it. This was fantastic.

Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Maillard’s Odyssey 2015
Bottled 2015 Drinking 21/8/19.
Aroma is complex, rich, hazelnuts, cocoa and, dark roasty malts, coffee liqueur, rich fruit cake. Appearance is dark, opaque with a lingering though thin, tan viscous head.
Taste is boozy, sweet, bitter dark malt, cocoa powder, chocolate, coffee and coffee grounds, vanilla, burnt sugar. Theres some oaky dryness. Any hop bitterness is very mild. Theres a fair bit going on though it is very smooth and rounded. Complexity increases as it warms and opens up adding red wine and dark fruits, the oakyness increases in both taste and smell. Mouthfeel is quite watery, theres a viscosity to it, low carbonation.
This is very good. it has aged well.

Liquid Smoke

Unsure what Im going to do with this yet. Hard to find this stuff in stores here so got a bunch online to experiment with.

Double Double Fillet-o-Fish

I will make you Fishers of Men said Fish to Fishes
For Fish is Fisher of Man who Fishes
And if Man is Fisher of Fish and Fisher of Men
And Fish is Fisher of Man and Fisher of Fish
And then that Man is Manna of Man
Then we’ll get there if we can


Steve Hillage, Fish, from the album Fish Rising (1975)

Dog-o-Fish

Was temped to go buy a triple or quad filet-o-fish from McDonalds.
But….what would be bigger and better is Make My Own.

I used:
1x Sealord brand crumbed Hoki fillet (the one with 2 large bits in the box)
A fair bit of – Praise brand Tartare sauce
2 slices of – Kraft Cheese slices (the ones wrapped individually in plastic)
A lightly toasted hotdog bun.

Tasted pretty much the same, but had more sauce and cheese than McDonalds gives you, and the fish was nicer and crispier.

Changes? Maybe a sharper cheese, also adding some chopped sweet gerkins to the tartare (or getting a better tartare)

Fucken bellissimo!

DOG-O-FISH!

Double Fillet of Fish

Its…ok, Love the Fillet-o-fish, BUT, if you’re gonna have double fish you Need More Sauce!

Lookin good
MORE SAUCE RIGHT HERE!
Only had Peri-Peri Mayonaise. Wasn’t bad.

Tamales!

(Will add more pictures when I eat more)

Tamales! I got 5 pork and 5 chicken. They are really great snacks, or a great meal with side. Great just heated (steam them) and eaten with salsa.

Love em!

I froze some, hence the icyness