Every year on Black Friday there is a major set of barrel-aged beer releases from one of the biggest former-craft breweries in the country. Some people still go crazy for those beers (although many languish on store shelves), but I have started a new post-Thanksgiving tradition. Every year we go to visit my parents in […]
Tag: Barreled Souls
Barreled Souls Prerequisite
Barreled Souls Brewing Company in Saco, ME is probably best known for their big beers, a selection of stouts, barleywines and other high gravity styles that are often brewed with adjuncts and aged in a variety of spirit barrels. These beers are delicious, but just a piece of the breweries repertoire. Barreled Souls also cans […]
Barreled Souls/Dancing Gnome Gnome’s Soul
One of my big beer-related goals for the early part of 2019 was to drink my cellar, I had close to 40 bottles in the cellar in December and I would prefer to have that number in the single digits. I had never intended on keeping a substantial beer cellar, but it becomes so easy […]
Barreled Souls Hillrock Bourbon Barrel Aged Deep Space
I make 3-4 trips to Maine a year to visit friends and family, and I usually try to incorporate a few brewery visits as part of each trip. The logistics of this can be difficult with the young kids, they are good travelers overall but their naps and feeding schedules tend to dictate stops and […]