The Next "White Whales"?

pre label change west sixth ipa

 

If thats the case, please sign me up for some mornin delight

 

Bolt Cutter

 

The armond set in a couple years will be on the list. You have to remember most of the white whalez are lambic because of how long you can keep them in your cellar without them going down hill

 

at a minimum, i have absolutely no doubt that lente will be on it. best beer i ever had. i want another one

 

Britikka Bruin

 

personally i don't think the red peak stuff will ever make it because i'm not even sure it really exists.

 

Cantillon will probably do some special one off next year, the Bruery will do a Black Ice Tuesday, whatever Hill-farmstead decides to make the exclusive release to their triple platinum beer of the month club.

Maybe Russian River will release the next batch of beatification only in 3L bottles.

 

Given the likes of Hommage and Millennium gueuze, I see Armand and Tommy being on there. It's actually quite different compared to some other blends I've seen, so it has that and the 3000-ish bottle count going for it. Now, if I can just resist drinking the meager amount I have left for oh say 5 years. Who am I kidding, not going to happen.

 

Losers.

 

Sounds like you have not had this beer. Your loss.

 

I would have agreed with you until some friends and I opened all 3 of the BA Black Magicks side by side. yeah, one can't truly compare the Apple Brandy to the bourbons but the difference between the PvW and the Buffalo Trace was so stark - they weren't even the same beer! same goes for the PvW and Buffalo Trace BBVD - nothing similar about them.

could I pick out PvW blind in a straight bourbon tasting? no, but I 'm also not claiming to

 

Lente for sure. I think SARA Appreciation may be a new one, given how that brewery is set up for the future.

What really blows my mind is GI Rare. How can a 15,000 bottle count be a white whale? If Ahab was looking for that white whale, and saw 15,000 of them in the ocean, Moby Dick would have been a much shorter, and boring story.

 

Production of Rodenbach Alexander was sky-high back in the day. I have heard a guy once reminisce about his student days how they used to buy lots of that stuff at a student bar, drink until they threw up etc. It was just a common supermarket beer.
No one cared about it & apparently it drank pretty badly back in the day (very sweet) but because there was so much of it some bottles lingered here & there, were forgotten about. If the production would have been smaller it would have been too rare to ever become a whale.

It is like Redbach, I remember bottles of it in the supermarket back when I was younger. It was another crappy alcopop & who in their right mind would keep and age something like Smirnoff Ice? Try finding it now. People could have bought 1000s bottles of it probably if they wanted to, same for Rodenbach Alexander.

If they would stop making Rochefort 10 today, eventually it will become a white whale. 15.000 bottle may seem like a lot now but people drink that stuff, no amount is going to last forever. They made 4375 bottles of Lente, there are rarer beers out there.

 

Probably a beer we haven't heard of yet.

 

Insta whales =/= White Wales. A decent chunk of the beers nominated have plans on being re-released, and are known to fall off with too much age.

Probably the best answer so far.

 

Totally being a homer here, but Swamp Head's Peat Dunwoody's Wee Heavy. It's currently a 4.84 with 3/4 (mine included) written reviews being basically 5s, it was aged in PVW barrels for two years, 1pp release at the brewery, 60 bottles and never being brewed again.

I think the super limited nature is holding this one back from discussion. I found out this weekend that it was so fewer bottles because they decided to hand bottle it and had a bunch of short fills that they can't legally sell.

It's freaking incredible.

 

Honestly, it ain't gonna happen. Three major reasons
1) brewery pedigree.
2) style (wee heavy)
3) not enough bottles. Being that 1 and 2 exist, there aren't enough out of market reviews to drive any sort of hype. Too many people will claim that the reviews are biased, that a wee heavy from swamp head couldn't be that good. Now if it were a fruit lambic from Cantillon with only 60 bottles, 1 and 2 don't exist, and 3 isn't a barrier any more, because everybody expects it to be good, therefore offering their firstborn for it.

 

If you haven't had it, you really can't comment with any validity. I agree with phishphorce. Considering they put the same batch of beer in pappy and buffalo trace barrels at the same time and I consumed them side by side, if you're going to tell me I can't taste the difference that pappy barrels make, you're just wrong. I've also noticed a similar bourbon character in other pappy BA beers. I can't taste "the pappy" but I can definitely taste the pappy effect.

 

Not to mention it's barely better than normal BCBS right now.