I normally don't pick up much year-to-year variance in BCBS, but this years (the 15.2% bottle) has much more dark fruit than years past, imo. I'm good with the one bottle I had. In related news, their long time Brewmaster left the company this week for Octopi Brewing outside Madison WI. His quote is pretty telling on what it's like brewing for Big Beer:
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“I’ll get to be a lot more hands-on and technically active, whereas at Goose Island there’s more bureaucracy and administration and layers,” he said. “I’ll be a little closer to the beer itself. I look forward to that.”
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