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Drink Thu Dec 16 2010
Two Brothers Brewing Co.'s New Weiss Wine Sounds Totally Worth It
How many nights have you laid awake, wondering what it would be like to own a special, hand-painted bottle of Two Brothers' port-barrel aged Weiss Wine, autographed by none other than Jim and Jason Ebel? Well, wonder no more! For the completely reasonable price of $200, you can have your very own bottle of Two Brother's Bare Tree 2009. From the official press release:
"Two Brothers has brewed and released a batch of Bare Tree every year since 2000... Each vintage utilizes the original recipe for our year-round hefe weizen (Ebel's Weiss), but brewed to a much higher strength. The result is a beer reaching upwards of 13%. The beer's traditional clove and banana notes give way to melon and fleshy fruit, deep caramel and black pepper characteristics."
There's at least one satisfied customer out there. "bhiner41" posted this in the comments section of Ratebeer.com earlier today: "2009 bare tree: Awesome, what a great Weiss beer. Golden color, excellent aroma, very smooth and no aftertase. [sic] Light honey taste with a hint of malt." Light honey taste with a hint of malt, eh? That sounds... pretty good. I guess. Anyway, if you're one of those cheapskates who's concerned about spending $200 on a single bottle of honey beer, look at it this way: when your buddy's new iPod Nano is broken or lost three years from now, that Weiss Wine will still be aging in your basement, getting complexer and complexer by the day. See? Completely worth it.
