So I've seen this beer for the last couple months at my local bottle shop and finally decided to give it a try since I can't get anything else from Chicago brewery Goose Island.

It's a blend of Belgian ales...80% straight clean Belgian blond and 20% of the same beer that has been aged in wine barrels with orange peel (a Belgian technique).

This is a very interesting beer. You could pass this stuff of as champagne if necessary.
Very light, straw color, highly carbonated and spritzy (probably 3.5-4 volumes).
Very little malt in the nose, some zinfandel and citrus notes.

They recommend drinking it from a wine glass, which I have done.
When poured it acts almost exactly like champagne. Tall pure white head which takes a couple minutes to subside.

It weighs in at 6.5% ABV and according to the brewery it can be cellared for up to 5 years.

I like this beer overall, but it's a bit of a novelty. I'd love to get my hands on some more samples from Goose Island because they definitely know what they're doing.

Sorry Miller, you can no longer call yourself "The Champagne of Beers".

I'm the farthest thing from a beer guru, so maybe one of you guys can help me here. My first beer taste way different than my 5th, and hardly has any taste appeal left to me(cuz I'm just gettin my drunk on by now). Do some beers(or all) taste better as you acclimate to them(say maybe the 2nd or 3rd bottle tastes better/best)?? I never got to tasting beers for that reason. The first one is never yum to me, but the 2nd is, and even moreso the 3rd is like YUMMMM.

hey cross:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/21/pab ... -in-china/

its not bad. i mean, its better then coors light or a miller lite for sure. its not my beer of absolute choice, but yeah, ill drink it down, no problem.

So I've seen this beer for the last couple months at my local bottle shop and finally decided to give it a try since I can't get anything else from Chicago brewery Goose Island.

It's a blend of Belgian ales...80% straight clean Belgian blond and 20% of the same beer that has been aged in wine barrels with orange peel (a Belgian technique).

This is a very interesting beer. You could pass this stuff of as champagne if necessary.
Very light, straw color, highly carbonated and spritzy (probably 3.5-4 volumes).
Very little malt in the nose, some zinfandel and citrus notes.

They recommend drinking it from a wine glass, which I have done.
When poured it acts almost exactly like champagne. Tall pure white head which takes a couple minutes to subside.

It weighs in at 6.5% ABV and according to the brewery it can be cellared for up to 5 years.

I like this beer overall, but it's a bit of a novelty. I'd love to get my hands on some more samples from Goose Island because they definitely know what they're doing.

Sorry Miller, you can no longer call yourself "The Champagne of Beers".

dude! no! oberon is so shitty this year! the 2009 oberon was yummy, but this years sucks!

every year in kalamazoo, oberon day was a holiday. seriously. it was always the third monday of march, and classes would be canceled, because, seriously, kegs of oberon would fly off the shelves, and it was time to bust out the cornhole boards and ladder golf sets. it was quite the event, and i miss it. but oberon is overrated, but yeah, its alot better then most beers. but for a wheat beer?

ps: i polished off a mini keg by myself a few years ago. seriously, how i didnt die, i have no idea. didnt black out either, but holy shit was i drunk. and holy shit was i hung over.