Lucky Lab Barleywine and Big Beer Fest
The Lucky Lab Beer Hall hosts a celebration of mighty big beer and barleywines March 5-6. The Lucky Lab brewers have been cellaring some of these mighty beers (none under 8%abv) for years in their cooler. In fact this year, they have added the new TARDIS cooler, just for cellaring barleywines. “It’s bigger on the inside,” says Lucky Lab’s Ben Flerchinger, noting that like Doctor Who’s time machine, the new cooler is bigger inside than out (bigger beers that is). Look for barleywines from 2008 Beer Valley Highway to Ale, and 2007 and 2009 vintages of Lucky Lab’s own Old Yeller, to Butte Creek Trainwreck 2007, and other big beers including Monk Fish Tripel from Fish Brewing, an Imperial schwarzbier from Buckbean Brewing in Nevada, to Rock Bottom Black Peter, described as “Evil Dark Black” in style.