Three Most Elusive Beers

1. Pliny the Younger
2. M
3. Yellow Bus

 

Chocolate Rain. Have put up a few ISOs and all anyone wants is WALEZ or no response at all. Stop holding out for the best trade and lets just trade some good beer!

 

How is it that nobody has mentioned Dave?

 

No hate - PtY is a very average beer IMO - now THAT brings on some hate!

 

1. PtY
2. Blabaer
3. FB Maple Bacon Coffee Porter

 

I've had that.

 

PtY
Westy
(original recipe) Dark Lord

 

huh. it's weird, despite the Gotta Catch'em All rare-obsession of beeradvocate, i've never actually thought about "what beers have i sought but not found?"

i mean, there's a lot of beers i want, but haven't had (e.g. adam from the wood, #1). but i haven't made any serious effort to obtain them (e.g. westy 12 i sort of set as a "beer goal," but the conditions were "if i go to belgium, if it comes over here, or if a trader extras it to me." i have a weird personal rule against trading for it...).

the first beer i can think of that i've been looking for for years but never see in bottles is:

1. captain lawrence golden delicious

and at the moment that's all i can think of. i looked for weyerbacher blasphemy for a long time, but eventually found it. same with heady topper. KBS i didn't look for but it just came to me luckily... would have looked for it had it not.

i want to say handbaak or whatever it's called, but i think i recently found some and balked at the price.

hmmm. i can't think of anything else. i guess i'm relatively lucky.

as for stuff i've tried to trade for and failed, like i implied above, none. what i've tried to trade for, i've gotten. i don't really go whale hunting.

immediate edit:

2. a fresh bottle of anchor small beer

3. a fresh bottle of some other beer, but i'm too lazy to think of it. i'm sure it exists.

 

1. Dave
2. M
3. Dirty Horse

 

PtY and some hopslam on the hoppy side of
things. And then there's always Kate, and maybe some of that Dark lord stuff I've heard about once or twice.

 

Drank so much Double Sunshine the past few days it was coming out my ... well you know ...

 

Thanks for rubbing that in.
You could've traded some to me

 

heady topper
darklord
bourbon county

i send my wife to our local total wine in ca and have her ask for these 3, and duck duck gooze. i keep telling her i heard they were in. she keeps going. they keep replying 'huh'? she keeps saying maybe next week. i have no idea why this amuses me.

 

Sorry, it was all on draft, and mighty tasty too !!!!!

 

Once Shelton starts distributing to your area you will have to change excuses for why there never is any on your shelf to the same reason there never is any on our shelves back east.

 

1 Alpine Great
2 Alpine Great
3 Alpine Great

 

Pliny
Bourbon County
King henry

I guess it just depends on location. Ive never seen PTY in NC. But I saw some of you listed Westvleteran, in my area its very acessable.

 

You might be right, but I'm not entirely sure. Other beers that seem to sell out almost instantly elsewhere hang around on shelves for months here. And on my trip down to Portland a few months ago (with literally minutes allotted to beer shopping) it was easy to find a few 3F beers, not to mention many other Shelton Bros distributed beers we can't get here. Cantillon might be a special case, but it would be at least a step in the right direction if it could be sold here legally.

 

I love golden delicious! Just landed two bottles so if you ever wanna crack one open let me know!

 

Isabelle Proximus
RARE
PtY