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Hey, I think this barrel-aged beer thing has some traction. Festivals earlier this month in Chicago and the Bay Area and judging that accompanied them give us a shopping list . . . of sorts. Looking for these beers, many of which are sold only on draft and all of which are packaged in small amounts, feels a little like chasing ghosts. <\/p>\n
You’ll find the results of the 5th Annual Festival of Wood and Barrel-aged Beer <\/strong>here<\/a>. And West Coast Barrel Aged Beer Festival<\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chicago festival attracted 80 beers from 29 different breweries, representing 10 states.<\/p>\n Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery in Chicago won BOS for the second straight year (and third time in five years) with Clare’s Thirsty Ale, an Imperial Stout aged nine months on raspberries in a bourbon barrel. Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery<\/a> won runner-up BOS again. This time with Wooden Hell, an English-style barley wine aged in a Woodford Reserve barrel.<\/p>\n New Belgium Brewing swept the wild ales category, with La Foile capturing the gold. La Foile also won gold in California.<\/p>\n Old Woody Barleywine from Schooner’s Brewery<\/a> won BOS in California, followed by two beers from Lost Abbey<\/a>. \u201cIt was so tough, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have judging next year, just a people\u2019s choice,” Bistro owner Vic Kralj said told Bill Brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n Firestone Walker Fine Ales won the People’s Award with Parabola Imperial Oatmeal Stout, one of the components in Firestone 10 released last year and in the soon-to-be-released Firestone 11.<\/p>\n Two other beers brewed for blending — called Rufus and Bravo; isn’t it a little strange they come up with cool names for the parts and rather plain ones for the final beers? — won medals in Chicago. I think those two will also be part of Firestone 11. <\/p>\n Details about that soon. I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, I think this barrel-aged beer thing has some traction. Festivals earlier this month in Chicago and the Bay Area and judging that accompanied them give us a shopping list . . . of sorts. Looking for these beers, many of which are sold only on draft and all of which are packaged in small … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}