BELL'S HOPSLAM at Cafe Lou Lou in the Highlands

Could be the last of it in town, so if you love beer as much as we do, come join us while it lasts!

I keep wondering how HopSlam would age if kept a year past release ... but we'll probably never know, will we? It's too good young and fresh -- and impossible to cellar as a result, as there's never any of it left to cellar.

Dammit. For those that haven't tried Hopslam, please do while you can. It was sold to me as "the closest thing to a marijuana high", a feeling I know alot about from watching the Discovery Channel. Best damn beer, followed by Roger's equally rare Thunderfoot, my old college favourite Fat Tire (which was illegal to sell/buy in Oklahoma, I'm sure Stevie recalls the drought of options). NABC Hoptimus is a close call. Not that I am biased by my constant proximity.

They use the word "Slam" for a reason. Try it while you can!

I keep wondering how HopSlam would age if kept a year past release ... but we'll probably never know, will we? It's too good young and fresh -- and impossible to cellar as a result, as there's never any of it left to cellar.

Wasn't there an oak-aged Hopslam on hand-pull at Rich O's a while back? I'm pretty sure there was, because I got the last pint of it with lunch on the day after it was breached.

I keep wondering how HopSlam would age if kept a year past release ... but we'll probably never know, will we? It's too good young and fresh -- and impossible to cellar as a result, as there's never any of it left to cellar.

I'll have to check when I get home, but there may still be a single 12oz in my beer fridge from about a year ago. Would that count?

I keep wondering how HopSlam would age if kept a year past release ... but we'll probably never know, will we? It's too good young and fresh -- and impossible to cellar as a result, as there's never any of it left to cellar.

Wasn't there an oak-aged Hopslam on hand-pull at Rich O's a while back? I'm pretty sure there was, because I got the last pint of it with lunch on the day after it was breached.

I believe so. But that wouldn't be the unalloyed HopSlam. My personal opinion is that it should be consumed young, as with Hoptimus.

Dammit. For those that haven't tried Hopslam, please do while you can. It was sold to me as "the closest thing to a marijuana high", a feeling I know alot about from watching the Discovery Channel. Best damn beer, followed by Roger's equally rare Thunderfoot, my old college favourite Fat Tire (which was illegal to sell/buy in Oklahoma, I'm sure Stevie recalls the drought of options). NABC Hoptimus is a close call. Not that I am biased by my constant proximity.

They use the word "Slam" for a reason. Try it while you can!

When my daughter was attending Kalamazoo College I would go out to visit her fairly regularly and occasionally found myself hanging out with some of the folks from Bell's....Always...ALWAYS a good product no matter what the style (mo fresha-mo betta). I'm a huge fan of American IPA's and Hop-bombs and have a hard time finding anything that I prefer to Bell's Two Hearted or Bell's Hop Slam.

As a humanitarian gesture to my favorite Oklahoma liquor store proprietor I always bring him a nice selection of Bell's products to add to his personal stash whenever I'm out there on business.

As a humanitarian gesture to my favorite Oklahoma liquor store proprietor I always bring him a nice selection of Bell's products to add to his personal stash whenever I'm out there on business.

THAT would explain how the guys who worked at the liquor store could get their hands on Fat Tire! They would use it as currency in the ol' college town, and in a "2pt" football town, it was gold. Was your guy in Norman or OKC? I know, I have blocked some of it out, too.

As a humanitarian gesture to my favorite Oklahoma liquor store proprietor I always bring him a nice selection of Bell's products to add to his personal stash whenever I'm out there on business.

THAT would explain how the guys who worked at the liquor store could get their hands on Fat Tire! They would use it as currency in the ol' college town, and in a "2pt" football town, it was gold. Was your guy in Norman or OKC? I know, I have blocked some of it out, too.

OKC...up on NW Expressway.

Actually I'll have to admit that it's really not the "beer hell" down there that it once was. There are quite a few craft beers available in liquor stores, just nothing along the lines of Bell's, Founders, Stone, etc. The Brew Pub "scene" is laughable and the products they turn out would make Roger spit up a little in his mouth. I'm thinking it must have something to do with that Okie water. Still it's a far cry from the days when it was a "brown bag" state. Now THAT was beer hell. All in all being sentenced down there on business every so often does serve the purpose of making me appreciate L'ville that much more.

Getting back to Hopslam reminds me...We were in K-zoo for the (city-wide) Oberon release party a couple of years back. OMG.

I keep wondering how HopSlam would age if kept a year past release ... but we'll probably never know, will we? It's too good young and fresh -- and impossible to cellar as a result, as there's never any of it left to cellar.

I accidentally aged a bottle of Hopslam for a year. The hops faded a bit, but the malt and honey came through a lot more. It turned itself into a damn fine American style Barleywine, when it was all said and done. With that being said, it will only be another accident that lets me age a bottle of this again.

I'm saving a 4-pack of '08 Hopslam and drinking it alongside Jan '09 Hopslam