Friday night my wife and I shared a 750ml. bottle of Unibroue Black
Currant Ephemere. It's not that often I pick a beer she really likes.
It poured with a pretty pink/purple hue. Nice fruit flavor without
being cloyingly sweet. Good wheaty bite behind it. We drank it in
champagne flutes.

Today when I went to get my kids from spending the night at Grandpa's,
I made my must stop at Gomer's. I found they have started carrying
Bridgeport. The first time I have seen it in the Kansas/Missouri area.
I grabbed a six of the IPA and drank a couple when I got home. Good
stuff, I wanted more, but I'll save them for another day!



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Pete Clouston
Lawrence (KS) Brewers Guild
http://www.lawrencebrewers.org

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, p. clouston wrote:

> Friday night my wife and I shared a 750ml. bottle of Unibroue Black
> Currant Ephemere. It's not that often I pick a beer she really likes.
> It poured with a pretty pink/purple hue. Nice fruit flavor without
> being cloyingly sweet. Good wheaty bite behind it. We drank it in
> champagne flutes.
>
> Today when I went to get my kids from spending the night at Grandpa's,
> I made my must stop at Gomer's. I found they have started carrying
> Bridgeport. The first time I have seen it in the Kansas/Missouri area.
> I grabbed a six of the IPA and drank a couple when I got home. Good
> stuff, I wanted more, but I'll save them for another day!
>

I read last week that Bridgeport was expanding distribution into KS and
other states in the region...this was confirmed last week by the manager
at Goebels here in Wichita stating Bridgeport was on its way.
We get unibroue down here but I haven't seen any of the ephemere's...(had
traded a few years ago for the apple and a couple of others, was unaware
there was a black currant one). Was that in Gomers Kansas or in the
Missouri side?
(sounds like its about time I made a drive up to Gomers, MO, and maybe a
stop in at Free State while I'm at it)

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:51:52 -0400, Expletive Deleted
> wrote:


>I read last week that Bridgeport was expanding distribution into KS and
>other states in the region...this was confirmed last week by the manager
>at Goebels here in Wichita stating Bridgeport was on its way.
>We get unibroue down here but I haven't seen any of the ephemere's...(had
>traded a few years ago for the apple and a couple of others, was unaware
>there was a black currant one). Was that in Gomers Kansas or in the
>Missouri side?
>(sounds like its about time I made a drive up to Gomers, MO, and maybe a
>stop in at Free State while I'm at it)

I bought the Ephemere at Royal at 103rd and State Line. I hadn't been
there in a while. They have really expanded the beer selection. I
think they rival the 99th and Holmes Gomers now. They had quite a few
Belgian and British beer that I have not seen before.

I bought the Bridgeport at the Gomers on 39th. Their selection is not
as good as the other one, but I was in the neighborhood. They had the
Bridgeport IPA and ESB.


-----------------------------------------------------
Pete Clouston
Lawrence (KS) Brewers Guild
http://www.lawrencebrewers.org

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:51:52 -0400, Expletive Deleted
> wrote:


>I read last week that Bridgeport was expanding distribution into KS and
>other states in the region...this was confirmed last week by the manager
>at Goebels here in Wichita stating Bridgeport was on its way.
>We get unibroue down here but I haven't seen any of the ephemere's...(had
>traded a few years ago for the apple and a couple of others, was unaware
>there was a black currant one). Was that in Gomers Kansas or in the
>Missouri side?
>(sounds like its about time I made a drive up to Gomers, MO, and maybe a
>stop in at Free State while I'm at it)

I bought the Ephemere at Royal at 103rd and State Line. I hadn't been
there in a while. They have really expanded the beer selection. I
think they rival the 99th and Holmes Gomers now. They had quite a few
Belgian and British beer that I have not seen before.

I bought the Bridgeport at the Gomers on 39th. Their selection is not
as good as the other one, but I was in the neighborhood. They had the
Bridgeport IPA and ESB.


-----------------------------------------------------
Pete Clouston
Lawrence (KS) Brewers Guild
http://www.lawrencebrewers.org

Expletive Deleted > wrote:
>We get unibroue down here but I haven't seen any of the ephemere's...(had
>traded a few years ago for the apple and a couple of others, was unaware
>there was a black currant one).

IIRC they are being brewed as a series. The first was straight,
etc. The most recent (recent enough that I haven't seen it in this
market) is the black currant.
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