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How far we've come now that we can refer to KBS and Bourbon County as "readily available". While I do miss the hunt, it's nice being able to stroll into a bottle shop and find them quite consistently
Each year craft beer gets better and better. ABInBev has done a good job not ruining BCBS and keeping it competitive with the newest and greatest offerings.
You felt extremely lucky if you ran into a store with those two or Abyss back in the day, I do like that they're not so crazy hard to find now days but the hunt back then was pretty fun.
I thought it was cool Nate admitted that Truth wasn't really a fair comparison as it's like a luxury product that probably sells for twice as much as the others. I would love to try Tree House beers one day. Please distribute to the UK!
Wait there's a stout season!?...I'm that guy in mid-July asking, "What stouts do you have on tap?..." 😅 Glad this popped up in the feed. Cheers y'all 🥃🍺
Barrel aged Narwahl and barrel aged Ten Fidy would have been interesting in the lineup. Those used to be a little hard to come by, but I see them pretty regularly.
Not surprised that BCBS did well. it's always really good considering the scope and range of the bottles in distribution. Similarly I like KBS too, but a little less than BCBS. Great video!
I just visited your Charlton location and being first time ever having any Treehouse beers, I was highly impressed with the stouts on tap as well as Emperor Julius. Nascent Truth Double Coconut was my favorite of all! Will definitely have to come back again!
My favorite is Straffe Hendrix Scotch Barrel Aged Quad. I had the 2017 vintage last year for Christmas and it was absolutely fantastic. I also have a bunch of the Goose Islands of various vintages from 2020 to 2024. I also have a 2022 Delirium Black and two 2022 Komes Barleywine. It’s amazing what proper aging will do for a quality beer. Cheers!!
Great review! I can see he is not impressed with the tree house beer thrown in, but on the flip side, it showed how great/complex a small batch beer can be. If it was in a line up of other premium small batch stouts, he would have known it was already premium, so was nice to see him pick this one out as the best........embarrassing if it had come last !
I cant believe that these are readily available. I remember having to drive all over on certain release days to get a single bottle of these. But yeah, they sit on the shelves now.
My favorite tasting to date. I would love to see a do over with Lagunitas Willettized and another tasting smaller production, more local, barrel aged stouts. In fact, I would mind seeing other stout and porter tastings.
I like the idea of putting Truth up against some more small batch type offerings. There are some really good ones that blow the shelf stuff out of the water. Even here in my little town of Rochester, MN we have Forager Brewing who makes some killer BA stouts. As good as BCBS is, Forager makes some beer that blows the doors off BCBS. Forager Millerzzzzz is one of the best beers I've ever had. Not to mention the standard Nillerzzzzz and BA Pudding Goggles and many others. So good!
The lacing on the TH offering straight away sold me on the body compared to the others. Definitely a more expensive offering, but one with clear differentiators. Need to get some down to Australia to compare to BCBS and others.
Great video. Awesome to get tasting notes from a master of the craft. I’d love to see a small batch lineup video! Tried Anchorage - Blessed and would enjoy TH’s take on it. Cheers & thanks for brewing the best beers in the world.
It's cool to see the base Goose Island still holds its weight and hasn't really increased in price over the last few years. They mostly sit on the shelf for $12-13 while the others are all snatched up during Black Friday.
@@treehousebrewco Is that the 2023 original or a 2023 varietal? There are dozens of the 2024 original at the beer store down the street from me for $13 or $14, but all of the varietals are $24 and up. That's the typical price at Total Wine or grocery stores too. If you got the original for $25, that store is adding a pretty big markup. I live in Cincinnati now, but the pricing was roughly the same when I lived in NC. The originals would sit in grocery stores for months after Black Friday.
@@bigzach322 speaks volumes - the employees at goose island still care despite their ab inbev overlords. As long as they care, the quality will not suffer!
The 2023 original popped up in my local bottle shop in a small town in the middle of the UK for £20 a bottle. But it’s still very very hard to find in Europe.
The Goose Island Bourbon County I had once. What is the retailprice in USA? I bought one in london for 18 euro (19dollars) while the same beer in the Netherlands is 35 euro (36.75 dollars) euros.
If you do a small-ish brewery stout shootout...on a trip to Anaheim a few years ago I stopped by Bottle Logic. There are so many big stouts on the market, but theirs really stood out to me. Cheers! 🍻
Also - Bell's Black Note... that should be in the next one if you do the more exclusive series. My #1 fave BA Stout of all time *that was available in a bottle (Founders did a ton of epic shit at their Black Party back in the day)
I would agree Nate. I’ve had that vintage of Truth, and it is miles better than Bourbon County and KBS (which I both love). Totally agree with your take on the Dragons Milk and Boulevard stouts.. A great comparison- and I know because I’ve had both- the Legendary Kentucky Brand Brunch Stout from Toppling Goliath vs Truth. You’ll be happy to know, to my palate. They are equals.. Some of the double barrel Variants of BCBS and even KBS are a notch up from their original base beers. Great Video as always. Cheers! 🍻…
I've had a good number of every one of those except yours and I had the exact same order as Nate did before he started. Too bad I'm on the West Coast, I would love to try your stouts some time.
Please do the same for barleywines. Instead of a dry January we do a barleywine January. I have 20+ for next month including a number of TH. Recommendations for somewhat available -- Revolution Straight Jacket, which I think is the best relatively available one.
dude it's so bizarre to go from ticketed releases and secret password stuff at liquor stores, to collecting dust at meijers... in the span of 5-6 years
@BeerForTim I remember literally having to go from one liquor store to another and be told to namedrop someone just to get a six pack of hopslam... to now having beer distributors outright leaving unordered kegs of it off at accounts in an attempt to make sales quotas
Interesting video and comment/rankings. I just realized I have a bottle of Nascent Truth in my cellar from what seems like years ago. I'm disappointed in myself for not getting into it sooner.
Great video! Having had a couple of Tree house stouts I can confirm that they ruin regularly available stouts. The dragons milk is one of my favorites it’s very available and a good value.
This has me more excited for my trip out to TH next week. Thought the 2023 BCBS was very good, the 2024 base BCBS was a bit disappointing. If you’re taking video suggestions id love to see you do a sampling, review, and ranking of sole of the holiday/winter TH stouts!
We shared a bottle of TreeSide at Thanksgiving, and it was unbelievable. Costco has/just had had Kirkland branded barrel aged stouts brewed by Deschutes, I'd be curious to see how those hold up to these.
You can't find TH outside the brewery locations. I make a yearly trip from Chicagoland and bring back cases. Super easy drive from the eastern provinces.
2, 3, 4, and 5 were in the correct order. Having #1 in the mix was somewhat unfair. Not sure how "widely available" it is. But I guess you gotta have a Tree House beer in the Tree House video.
Love that he snuck in the Tree House Truth. Just judging off his reaction you could tell he had no idea, thus it was still unbiased. Great video! Will need to definitely pick up some Truth now.
When you say "oxidative notes", what are something things that we can clue in on to pick up on those notes? Are those some of the same stale notes that you get in hoppier beers that have been sitting on the shelf too long.. just buried in a heavy stout?
I think BCBS has decreased in robustness over the years. One quality I always enjoy about BCBS is the incredible soy sauce punch that you didn't mention so I wonder if I'm crazy. Recently opened, like, 2013-2020 and it was notable how thick the earlier ones were. Have you done any videos on blending? I heard a bit when you were doing that collab but would love to hear more. Lastly, everyone (rightly) talks about your IPAs but your BA program is underrecognized bigtime.
I'm with you on that. The first BCBS I ever had was a 12oz bottle from I think 2013 and I was bind blown how massive it drank. I just cracked a 2024 and while the flavors are there, I was soo disappointed in how thin it is
While this years 2024 had more barrel character I agree about the body. I know they said they originally did no sparge on the mashout, which makes for a very low efficiency. It seems like the body isn't just that it's attenuated down a bunch more so that's one theory of mine of way the body is missing.
I will say the 3 best Imperial Stouts I've had this year are Firestone Walker Parabola 2024 (beautiful barrel aged flavours in it), Vault City Unbarrelled V2 (technically not barrel aged but has the flavours) and the non barrel aged Vault City DDF Churro because it's so silly you can't say no.
I don't know how widely available it is, but Willetized by Lagunitas has been best bang for your buck as far as barrel aged stouts go on the west coast for a minute. 4-12oz. bottles for $12.99 at your local bug box store.
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Always L,C,S to good videos. I have all your locations in mind to try your beer if my Socal self is in the area.
Readily available, meaning we are getting tree house into distro in other states!! Win for us all! Love these videos
If only Tree House was readily available. I’m 2 states away and have never seen or had one.😊
How far we've come now that we can refer to KBS and Bourbon County as "readily available". While I do miss the hunt, it's nice being able to stroll into a bottle shop and find them quite consistently
they've always been widely available, but not readily. they are great beers.
Each year craft beer gets better and better. ABInBev has done a good job not ruining BCBS and keeping it competitive with the newest and greatest offerings.
Agreed. We’ve got work to do to convince the broader public of that
You felt extremely lucky if you ran into a store with those two or Abyss back in the day, I do like that they're not so crazy hard to find now days but the hunt back then was pretty fun.
Man I made the exact comment before I read yours.
Just bought our first house this year and so glad I live close to the Tewksbury location! Love this video and love your beer!
That is awesome!
Love to see a Barleywine edition of these!
I love stout season! Sierra Nevada Narwhal is one of my favorite seasonal stouts. They make a barrel-aged version. Available fairly widely. 😀
will add it to the next one!
I thought it was cool Nate admitted that Truth wasn't really a fair comparison as it's like a luxury product that probably sells for twice as much as the others. I would love to try Tree House beers one day. Please distribute to the UK!
~~~ Stout season is the best season. INDUBITABLY !
I had a Brooklyn black ops recently after a few years of not having one and it didnt disappoint!
That is a beer that just gets even better with time. Definitely grab a few and cellar at least one for a few years.
Wait there's a stout season!?...I'm that guy in mid-July asking, "What stouts do you have on tap?..." 😅
Glad this popped up in the feed. Cheers y'all 🥃🍺
Boy, I sure wish you guys could ship out to Oregon. Your beer looks amazing.
To me, nothing beats the value of Lagunitas Willettized Coffee Stout
Like that it is 12oz bottles too. Larger format bottles with this % demand help to finish them.
I remember their “high westified” ba stout being absolutely top notch back in 2015-16
that definitely should have made the panel instead of his own beer. i can sense the dissatisfaction with his team not sticking to the theme.
Funny I got a couple of 2020-2022 stashed away
Not a bad beer but You have a long way ahead of you when it comes to BA stout
Barrel aged Narwahl and barrel aged Ten Fidy would have been interesting in the lineup. Those used to be a little hard to come by, but I see them pretty regularly.
Yes, 'Tis the season for Stouts. Love 'em.
Not surprised that BCBS did well. it's always really good considering the scope and range of the bottles in distribution. Similarly I like KBS too, but a little less than BCBS. Great video!
Really appreciate you doing these, Nate, and explaining the process a bit. Cheers 🍻
I just visited your Charlton location and being first time ever having any Treehouse beers, I was highly impressed with the stouts on tap as well as Emperor Julius. Nascent Truth Double Coconut was my favorite of all! Will definitely have to come back again!
My favorite is Straffe Hendrix Scotch Barrel Aged Quad. I had the 2017 vintage last year for Christmas and it was absolutely fantastic. I also have a bunch of the Goose Islands of various vintages from 2020 to 2024. I also have a 2022 Delirium Black and two 2022 Komes Barleywine. It’s amazing what proper aging will do for a quality beer. Cheers!!
Red, White & Barrel from Tree House is amazing!!
Glad to help with any stout sampling that might take place... 😁
These are my favorite videos!
Glad you like them!
@ you know what I don’t like, not being able to get one of your beers here in NY… just saying 😭
Great review! I can see he is not impressed with the tree house beer thrown in, but on the flip side, it showed how great/complex a small batch beer can be. If it was in a line up of other premium small batch stouts, he would have known it was already premium, so was nice to see him pick this one out as the best........embarrassing if it had come last !
I wish I could get "Truth" here in Ohio! Sounds like something I would love.
Weyerbacher Sunday Morning was good when i had it years back.
I cant believe that these are readily available. I remember having to drive all over on certain release days to get a single bottle of these. But yeah, they sit on the shelves now.
'We gotta go back to work after this' :) Nothing sessionable about Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts, but they are delicious!
Thoroughly enjoyed the review especially the sneaking in of Truth. Haven't had Truth yet. Can't wait to try it. Well done.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My favorite tasting to date. I would love to see a do over with Lagunitas Willettized and another tasting smaller production, more local, barrel aged stouts. In fact, I would mind seeing other stout and porter tastings.
What a beautiful brewery. Not jealous 😅
I like the idea of putting Truth up against some more small batch type offerings. There are some really good ones that blow the shelf stuff out of the water. Even here in my little town of Rochester, MN we have Forager Brewing who makes some killer BA stouts. As good as BCBS is, Forager makes some beer that blows the doors off BCBS. Forager Millerzzzzz is one of the best beers I've ever had. Not to mention the standard Nillerzzzzz and BA Pudding Goggles and many others. So good!
The lacing on the TH offering straight away sold me on the body compared to the others. Definitely a more expensive offering, but one with clear differentiators. Need to get some down to Australia to compare to BCBS and others.
Great video. Awesome to get tasting notes from a master of the craft.
I’d love to see a small batch lineup video! Tried Anchorage - Blessed and would enjoy TH’s take on it.
Cheers & thanks for brewing the best beers in the world.
I keep saying this...need a place to buy Treehouse out west. Just pick one location, Folsom, and I'll be happy! Thanks Nate, your too humble.
Love this content. Wish you could stock your product here in Texas.
I love the videos you send out, thank you for doing them!
Just had the '24 BCS and it's pretty delicious. Wished Founders would bring back their CBS. Definitely looking forward to trying Truth at some point
River North is the unquestionable king of this style of beer, no one on earth does it better.
It's cool to see the base Goose Island still holds its weight and hasn't really increased in price over the last few years. They mostly sit on the shelf for $12-13 while the others are all snatched up during Black Friday.
interesting, I think this bottle was $25.
@@treehousebrewco Is that the 2023 original or a 2023 varietal? There are dozens of the 2024 original at the beer store down the street from me for $13 or $14, but all of the varietals are $24 and up. That's the typical price at Total Wine or grocery stores too. If you got the original for $25, that store is adding a pretty big markup. I live in Cincinnati now, but the pricing was roughly the same when I lived in NC. The originals would sit in grocery stores for months after Black Friday.
$10.99 500ml 2024 at Binny's in Chicagoland at this moment. The price has really come down even Prop is only $24.99 this year.
@@bigzach322 speaks volumes - the employees at goose island still care despite their ab inbev overlords. As long as they care, the quality will not suffer!
The 2023 original popped up in my local bottle shop in a small town in the middle of the UK for £20 a bottle. But it’s still very very hard to find in Europe.
Truth is one of the best barrel aged stouts (with no adjuncts) that i've ever had. incredible stuff.
I was lucky enough for it to be on draft on one my yearly Tree House visits.
I always described Lord Hobo's Boomsauce as "wet dog" not realizing it's an actual descriptive profile for oxidized beers, good to know! haha
I'm excited for the firestone anniversary bottle from this year and maybe opening christmas if not within a couple of days after
Does Tree House Brewing Company use distribution where we can find their product in Illinois?
Very humble
I need the video for the comparison for the smaller craft heavy hitters!!!
awesome sampling session
Glad you enjoyed it!
Three Floyds Brewing in Indiana has a few fantastic barrel aged stouts.
Not accessible even in Chicagoland. I've never seen Dark Lord for purchase either draft or bottle. Only at bottle shares and special events.
@@fecat93I've seen three floyds barrel aged beers at Binnys regularly.
I too have been searching for Dark Lord…
The Goose Island Bourbon County I had once. What is the retailprice in USA? I bought one in london for 18 euro (19dollars) while the same beer in the Netherlands is 35 euro (36.75 dollars) euros.
If you do a small-ish brewery stout shootout...on a trip to Anaheim a few years ago I stopped by Bottle Logic. There are so many big stouts on the market, but theirs really stood out to me. Cheers! 🍻
Prairie Weekend is the best barrel-aged stout I've tried. We don't get Treehouse in my area.
Love the videos Nate
Coming Tewksbury Thursday for an order
Also - Bell's Black Note... that should be in the next one if you do the more exclusive series. My #1 fave BA Stout of all time *that was available in a bottle (Founders did a ton of epic shit at their Black Party back in the day)
I would agree Nate. I’ve had that vintage of Truth, and it is miles better than Bourbon County and KBS (which I both love). Totally agree with your take on the Dragons Milk and Boulevard stouts.. A great comparison- and I know because I’ve had both- the Legendary Kentucky Brand Brunch Stout from Toppling Goliath vs Truth. You’ll be happy to know, to my palate. They are equals.. Some of the double barrel Variants of BCBS and even KBS are a notch up from their original base beers. Great Video as always. Cheers! 🍻…
I would have loved you to add a Fremont IS in this panel 🤤
Great video...I love bourbon aged stouts..what do you think about Kentucky Ale Company bourbon aged beers 🍻
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy also is great and fairly available.
I've had a good number of every one of those except yours and I had the exact same order as Nate did before he started. Too bad I'm on the West Coast, I would love to try your stouts some time.
Great video. Thanks!
Please do the same for barleywines. Instead of a dry January we do a barleywine January. I have 20+ for next month including a number of TH.
Recommendations for somewhat available -- Revolution Straight Jacket, which I think is the best relatively available one.
savage idea
As someone who lived in Grand Rapids for over a decade it's still weird to see KBS widely available.
dude it's so bizarre to go from ticketed releases and secret password stuff at liquor stores, to collecting dust at meijers... in the span of 5-6 years
@@SchwarbageTruck Remember lining up at Founders to buy it? Or standing out in the cold at Dark Horse for Plead the 5th? Oh how beer has changed!
@BeerForTim I remember literally having to go from one liquor store to another and be told to namedrop someone just to get a six pack of hopslam... to now having beer distributors outright leaving unordered kegs of it off at accounts in an attempt to make sales quotas
Upstate NY got exactly zero BCBS this year 😒
TH Saratoga can’t open soon enough!
Great video!
Zero Bourbon County? I'm originally from your area and that seems crazy to me
@ yep, the area is bone dry lol it’s the first time I’ve seen that happen and I’ve been picking some up every year since 2014!
@SmokinWithDad have you tried the big time craft beverage stores in the area? I'm almost willing to bet Southside Beverage in Amsterdam has it
If you do a smaller batch tasting, I recommend Free Will Ralphius as one of the bottles.
As a guy on the west coast, truth is in fact the truth.
Big mouth feel is my favorite beer descriptor, Horse blanket is the next
I've had each of these.... and I agree with your ranking. haha.
I’m glad we’re on the same page. 😉
Great vvvvideo!
Interesting video and comment/rankings. I just realized I have a bottle of Nascent Truth in my cellar from what seems like years ago. I'm disappointed in myself for not getting into it sooner.
Great tasting.
Great video! Having had a couple of Tree house stouts I can confirm that they ruin regularly available stouts. The dragons milk is one of my favorites it’s very available and a good value.
Barrel aged quads are also dank for winter time
When is the homebrew video out?! Looking forward to seeing my hazy being slated on RUclips 😂
This has me more excited for my trip out to TH next week. Thought the 2023 BCBS was very good, the 2024 base BCBS was a bit disappointing.
If you’re taking video suggestions id love to see you do a sampling, review, and ranking of sole of the holiday/winter TH stouts!
It ain’t even close 🍻
Would love a nice bottle of Truth. Yummie.
Great video the only thing is treehouse is not readily available in stores especially out west
I'd love to see a blind tasting of 5 different treehouse ipas.
Goose Island is the OG
We shared a bottle of TreeSide at Thanksgiving, and it was unbelievable.
Costco has/just had had Kirkland branded barrel aged stouts brewed by Deschutes, I'd be curious to see how those hold up to these.
Griffin Claw here in SE Michigan has the best out there IMO. Would love to try yours to compare.
Not widely distributed
Would love to try the Tree House one. Can't find it in Canada.
You can't find TH outside the brewery locations. I make a yearly trip from Chicagoland and bring back cases.
Super easy drive from the eastern provinces.
Gigachad Nate
You have a lot to be proud of, Nate!
2, 3, 4, and 5 were in the correct order. Having #1 in the mix was somewhat unfair. Not sure how "widely available" it is. But I guess you gotta have a Tree House beer in the Tree House video.
Made my comment before 9:40. Props for recognizing it.
I would like to have seen Black Ops and Black Note included. We have done a bunch of these tastings. They change dramatically with a bit of age.
Just an FYI Goose Island BBS is not readily available. In TN it is very hard to find.
it's a LITTLE sad being someone who grew up drinking Founders that KBS is now "readily available" - STILL, happy it's more accessible. Still slaps.
Love that he snuck in the Tree House Truth. Just judging off his reaction you could tell he had no idea, thus it was still unbiased. Great video! Will need to definitely pick up some Truth now.
Evening Nate.
When you say "oxidative notes", what are something things that we can clue in on to pick up on those notes? Are those some of the same stale notes that you get in hoppier beers that have been sitting on the shelf too long.. just buried in a heavy stout?
Dan 🏆!!
Enjoy the videos! Commenting to comment 😂.
Dan's in trouble.
9:44 Nate was NOT happy 😅
the comment everyone saying that this was 'rigged' needs to read. :)
I think BCBS has decreased in robustness over the years. One quality I always enjoy about BCBS is the incredible soy sauce punch that you didn't mention so I wonder if I'm crazy. Recently opened, like, 2013-2020 and it was notable how thick the earlier ones were. Have you done any videos on blending? I heard a bit when you were doing that collab but would love to hear more. Lastly, everyone (rightly) talks about your IPAs but your BA program is underrecognized bigtime.
I'm with you on that. The first BCBS I ever had was a 12oz bottle from I think 2013 and I was bind blown how massive it drank. I just cracked a 2024 and while the flavors are there, I was soo disappointed in how thin it is
While this years 2024 had more barrel character I agree about the body. I know they said they originally did no sparge on the mashout, which makes for a very low efficiency. It seems like the body isn't just that it's attenuated down a bunch more so that's one theory of mine of way the body is missing.
Need that julius hat!!!
I think it’s available on the treehouse merchandise site
I will say the 3 best Imperial Stouts I've had this year are Firestone Walker Parabola 2024 (beautiful barrel aged flavours in it), Vault City Unbarrelled V2 (technically not barrel aged but has the flavours) and the non barrel aged Vault City DDF Churro because it's so silly you can't say no.
TRUTH always wins! 🎉 12/12 🔔
I don't know how widely available it is, but Willetized by Lagunitas has been best bang for your buck as far as barrel aged stouts go on the west coast for a minute. 4-12oz. bottles for $12.99 at your local bug box store.
Oh what a surprise, you picked your own beer as your favorite and acted like you didn't know your own beer from the rest. Yeah I believe that.
Ikr 😂 readily available my a**. I drink BA stouts on the regular, and I've never heard of it.
“Readily available” come to Louisiana brother. You’ll rethink that 😂