{"id":3513,"date":"2014-03-04T01:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/beachwood-bbq-releases-first-barrel-aged-beer-bottles-go-on-sale-today\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T01:57:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:57:33","slug":"beachwood-bbq-releases-first-barrel-aged-beer-bottles-go-on-sale-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/beachwood-bbq-releases-first-barrel-aged-beer-bottles-go-on-sale-today","title":{"rendered":"Beachwood BBQ Releases First Barrel-Aged Stout; Bottles Go on Sale Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, Beachwood releases its much anticipated 8 Buffalo Imperial Stout, the inaugural brew from the beer house\u2019s 2014 collection of barrel-aged beers.<\/p>\n

\"ScreenNamed after University at Buffalo Professor William Rapaport\u2019s grammatically correct sentence\u2014\u201cBuffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.\u201d<\/a>\u2014the 12% ABV oatmeal stout will be sold in 22oz. bottles for $25 a piece beginning at 5PM.<\/p>\n

The barrel-aging program marks a new venture for Beachwood as it provides the brewery with the capability of offering beers that\u2014due to space and time\u2014would have been otherwise impossible in previous years. Having only been open for a little over two years, Beachwood simply didn\u2019t have the time to brew extra beer to put them in barrels for a time period that often reaches 18 months.<\/p>\n

This time last year, Beachwood released its first-ever barrel-aged beer, a version of its Scotch Ale Full Malted Jacket aged in Heaven Hill whiskey barrels. The beer won a bronze medal in the Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer category at the Great American Beer Festival<\/a> last October. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a very small \u2018program,\u2019 with between eight to ten spirit barrels at any given time,\u201d said Beachwood owner and chef Gabe Gordon. \u201cWe have very limited space in our brewery so we put them where we can in that space\u2026 The beer ages for around one year so it just took us a bit of time to have a product that was ready for packaging.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series is not set in stone, with Gordon emphasizing that dates aren\u2019t being set more than determining when to release a beer by the way it ages. With only a handful of barrels, each release will be exclusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a huge endeavor more than just a small addition to our robust line up of beers,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cIt\u2019s really the barrel that does all the hard work\u2014we just get the benefit of tasting it often.\u201d<\/p>\n

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