Ah, autumn. Time for football, falling leaves, and more pumpkin spice grocery items than polite society should allow.
Here at Foothills, we have a little autumn tradition of our own. It actually starts the previous winter, when we brew our iconic Sexual Chocolate Russian Imperial Stout. We squirrel away (intentional seasonal reference) a small percentage of the overall yield in bourbon barrels (usually Buffalo Trace) and let it age into a heady, boozy elixir that we release as the calendar turns to the fall months. The beer has a 100 rating on RateBeer, a 96 rating on Beeradvocate, and is often called one of the most sought after and coveted beers in America.
It’s a tradition we’ve had for over a decade – a tradition that will see an exciting new chapter when we release this year’s version of Bourbon Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate on Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25.
This year, in addition to our regular bottles of BASC, we are bottling/kegging a brand new version of the beer. You know that hip coffee roasting joint we opened earlier this year, Footnote? Well, Joe our head coffee roaster (yes that’s really his name) selected some very special Peruvian beans to roast, which we have used to infuse a few select barrels of BASC. We’ll have a limited bottling of Coffee Infused Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate, which will be on sale exclusively at our downtown pub on Saturday of Release Weekend.
Oh and we have one other little surprise for you.
Sexual Chocolate Gelato. Read on.
Sexy's Schedule
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
4pm: We will tap 2018 Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate at all 3 of our locations (pub, Footnote, and tasting room).
7pm: Annual Bottle Share Party – this year the party moves to Footnote, right next door to the pub. For those of you new to all this, we basically throw a big party the night we release this beer. The cost of admission is a bottle (or two) (or six) of your favorite craft beer – the rarer the better. It doesn’t have to be a whale, but don’t show up with a six pack of Corona Premier either.
11pm: Friday Night Flicks: Every Friday night our pub shows a movie on the big bar screen. This night’s selection is (naturally) Coming to America.
This is a good time to talk about camping out. Used to be, that’s pretty much what you had to do to get bottles of this beer. We’d have 150-200 people in line before the pub doors opened on Saturday morning.
We make more of the beer now than we did back then . . . but it is by no means an unlimited supply. Plus, we will have a brand new, limited edition version for sale in bottles as well – which we expect to get snapped up rather quickly.
Bottom line – the only indicator of when to show up will be your own good judgement.
Please do not ask us on social media when you should show up – we honestly don’t know. Besides, knowing exactly when to show up would be counter to the communal nature we try to create with this release. Whenever you show up, there will be fellow craft beer lovers to meet, drink and celebrate with.
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