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Now that I’ve recovered, here are some thoughts:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A big theme from many of the FoBAB 2023 award winners can be summed up in a single word:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWho?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what many of us<\/a> kept saying as medals went not to well-established repeat winners with highly regarded barrel programs, but to small brewery after small brewery from around the Midwest and beyond whose names we didn\u2019t recognize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before FoBAB, how many of us had ever heard of Minneapolis\u2019 Idyll Forest Artisan Ales<\/strong>? Of Full Mile Beer Company & Kitchen<\/strong> from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin? Or Centerville, OH\u2019s Loose Ends Brewing<\/strong>? Or places like False Idol<\/strong>, or Ever Grain<\/strong>, or Magnanimous<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most years there are winning beers from small locations but nothing, it seems, like this. And I think that\u2019s awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because, yes \u2014 big breweries with lots of resources still walked away with medals for their barrel-aged beers. Two of those are (or were until recently) big A-B brands: Wicked<\/strong> Weed<\/strong> scored a medal and 10 Barrel<\/strong> took home three<\/em>. Boulevard, Sun King <\/strong>and Firestone Walker<\/strong> came away with wins of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we also didn\u2019t see any wins from reliable outfits like Werk Force, Pollyanna<\/strong> or Revolution<\/strong>. (We sadly also didn\u2019t have a previous reliable winner in the form of Smylie Brothers<\/strong>. I also got a genuine pang of emotion seeing the final barrel-aged beer pouring from Oswego Brewing Company<\/strong>. Alas.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all this means that the world of barrel-aging quality is continuing to flatten out, I\u2019m thrilled<\/em> for it. Beer is an industrial product but putting it into a barrel to generate a desired affect requires a certain art, as does blending those beers into something greater than the sum of its parts. Places like FoBAB are where you get to see the payoff of lots of expensive experimentation and investment in something special, and I\u2019m happy to say that more FoBAB entries than ever are genuinely good beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we\u2019ve finally circled around to barrel-aged beer being a product that can be great from massive barrelhouses and just as great from single barrels patiently waiting in the corner of some small town taproom, then I\u2019m perfectly happy with that. More exciting beers to explore for all of us. And any of us, anywhere, might be able to access world-class barrel-aged beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also still love having the event at the Credit Union 1 Arena \u2014 with space for beers on the mezzanine, beers on the main floor, room outside for the Goose Island railcar and two separate spaces set aside for NA hop waters and lagers, it\u2019s pretty much the perfect size for a festival like this and still have room for people to sit and spread out. For those of you who remember the overwhelming noise (and, later in the event, the \u2026 aroma<\/em>) of the wild\/cider room at the previous location, you know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I would want for anything, a little quiet space set aside for the sensory-sensitive would be nice to have. Other festivals have instituted this and there have been times when I\u2019ve been overwhelmed by the simple sound and stimuli of a fest, even independent of alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are only two beer festivals that I travel interstate for: GABF and FoBAB. Even though prices haven\u2019t gone up in quite a while, $85 for a ticket to FoBAB1<\/a>\u00a0is a bit dear (even in spite of inflation) but when you consider how much access you get to a whole world of amazing, inventive, creative, time-consuming and overall intense beers from around the country \u2026 well, I\u2019m still saying it\u2019s well worth the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other takeaways:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was a very<\/em> big year for berry beers. Numerous stouts, barleywines and wild ales all came loaded with raspberry, blackberry, brambleberry and marionberry flavors, which I\u2019m going to assume<\/em> is a function of cost concerns from when these beers were being put away amidst a global pandemic 12, 18 or 24 months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t consider that a bad thing, though: One of my favorite beers of the day was Resident Culture\u2019s<\/strong> Spontaneous Raspberry, which I thought was better than their medal-winning Ego Death stout with vanilla. Still, a little different from past years where peanut butter, Madagascar vanilla beans, exotic coffees and other spices reigned supreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of berry beers (tangentially, at least), this is where I tell you that if you name a beer Fart At The Devil: Raspberry, I am bound by duty to try it at least once. I\u2019m still not letting Niles Brewing Company<\/strong> off the hook for not yet sending a label for this through the TTB. (It was fine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the beginning of the festival I ran into Eric Hobbs, COO of\u00a0Solemn Oath\/Hidden Hand<\/strong>, and we chatted a bit about the entry he was gushing with pride about: their Oaked Val D\u2019Or wild brett beer. It was wonderful to see the whole team erupt in applause (see above) when this love letter to Orval was named not just a gold-medal winner but Best in Show. Especially knowing how experiments with barrels and brett can either go very right or very wrong, you can tell they knew they nailed it and clearly the judges agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting to note that the last four FoBAB Best In Show winners have been non stout\/porter\/barleywine styles. A cider, two wild mixed culture beers and now wild brett have all taken the top spot since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve seen the labels I\u2019ve recently shared from Lupulin Brewing <\/strong>(Premium Subscribers have seen them, anyways, ahem), you know their artists are talented \u2014 but after sampling their Scribbled Lines: Rene V2 I can tell you that their brewers are as well. This was one of the few beers I went back for another pour of; big bright sour golden tart acidity that punched right through the noise to spark a lot of flavor joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before things got too crazy, I hunted down a Super Zero hop water from Revolution<\/strong>. I have no strong opinions on hop waters save to say that this one did pack a well-hopped punch to a palate that was thick with viscous stout; fully enjoyed it as a break to barrel-aged beers but not sure I\u2019m ready to drop $9 for a six-pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet that winning two big awards for their Mehndi 2023 bourbon-barrel-aged stout \u2014 Gold for Strong Porter\/Stout plus Runner Up – Best in Show \u2014 made MORE Brewing<\/strong> a bit more confident about their decision to drop $6 Million on the new Fort Wayne facility that just broke ground this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Metropolitan Brewing<\/strong> won another award this year for their barrel-aged Generator Doppelbock, but I had a pour of their BA Afterburner and man, I thought that beer couldn\u2019t get tastier, but it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of beer styles you don\u2019t see a lot at FoBAB, I had a pour of Dovetail\u2019s<\/strong> XO7: Wild Hefe, and you know what? I liked it! You wouldn\u2019t expect a blend of wild beer to interlace pretty seamlessly with their creamy, fluffy weizen but it did, and I dug it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haymarket\u2019s<\/strong> Icky Bob Thornton may just be2<\/a> the best Malort-barrel-aged beer I\u2019ve ever had. Most brewers opt to just hammer you over the head with wormwood, but this one used the spirit\u2019s natural dryness to meld beautifully with the blood orange to land this blonde ale with a nice grapefruit-bitter finish. Loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had heard a lot about Brothership\u2019s<\/strong> two entries so I tracked them down ASAP \u2014 the barleywine was nice but that Oumuamua imperial stout with a sizzly little rye-barrel spiced finish, mmm. Good stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A final note on attendance:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s event seemed a bit less populated than in the last couple years; whether or not that was due to a different configuration of beers on the floor vs on the mezzanine or fewer beers overall or if there were just fewer attendees there. I don\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goose Island has also had stations both inside and outside at past events; that wasn\u2019t the case this year \u2014 everything was pouring outdoors, which I assume added a few extra square feet. (And it was a beautiful day to be outside, too.) I also don\u2019t know what Friday night\u2019s crowd looked like either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can tell you that I definitely wasn\u2019t crowded for space for most of the day on Saturday. I do hope that the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild got what they needed from this annual fundraiser of a festival, because I genuinely do not want to end up back at the UIC Forum next year. Fingers crossed the financials made sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/a> Disclosure: Yes, as members of the beer media, the guild comped us our access to FoBAB 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/a> It is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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