Since we’re hitting the road soon and I might miss the official announcement at the Lost Abbey website, this just in from My Beer Pix (scroll to the bottom):

Lost Abbey’s Brewing’s first annual Barrel Tasting is set for Aug. 25 at the brewery near San Diego (that’s the barrel room pictured above). Cost is $50 and there will be only 100 tickets. Beers will include En Garde (barrel-aged Avante Garde), Older Viscocity, Red Poppy, a new Bourbon barrel-aged Angel’s Share, and the nearly impossible to get Cuvee de Tomme. Brewmaster Tomme Arthur promises “there’ll also beer a specially blended beer just for attendees.”

Aside from the beer (OK, that looks pretty silly once typed), this is a guaranteed E ticket educational experience. You’ll be discovering new things about what has been going on in those barrels right along with Arthur.

Speaking about the barrel project - which includes a wide range of barrels, lots of different beer types and an environment where wild yeast strains are greeted with open arms - last month, Arthur said that he and co-owner Vince Marsaglia only taste from the barrels every three months are so.

“We’re kinda letting them go - letting the barrels do what they want to do,” he said. “We’re interested in the flavors that develop.”

Posted: July 28th, 2007 under Beers of conviction.