A thought experiment: Beermageddon

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  1. kabritz

    kabritz Zealot (559) Aug 1, 2013 Canada (QC)

    Imagine that you're attending a party at the Playboy Mansion. Heff gives you the grand tour and reveals an amazing secret collection: 12-packs of every beer ever brewed! Suddenly, nuclear war breaks out! Thankfully, the place is equipped a fallout shelter that's stocked with enough food and water for all the guests and playmates to survive long enough to eventually repopulate (giggity).

    As you rush towards the blast doors that will shortly seal your fate, you spot a small cooler that can hold exactly twelve 330ml bottles or cans. Knowing that you have only a few minutes to select the last dozen beers you will ever enjoy, which ones do you bring?

    Myself:
    2 Fin du Mondes
    2 Don de Dieu
    2 Trois Pistoles
    2 Heady Toppers
    1 Pilny the Elder
    1 Pilny the Younger
    1 Stone Ruination IPA
    1 Molson Canadian (so I can close my eyes and think of hockey)

    How about you? A 12-pack of one beer, 12 different bottles or some other mix?
     
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  2. slangtruth

    slangtruth Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2012 Kentucky

    Sorry, I'm trying to make a final choice from among the bunnies.
     
  3. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    I think I'd grab ones that were good to drink but also bottle conditioned--somebody's gotta start brewing again when those blast doors open back up!
     
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  4. Giantspace

    Giantspace Grand Pooh-Bah (3,043) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    Younger is not bottled.

    I would grab big beers that age well.

    Enjoy
     
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  5. njramsfan

    njramsfan Initiate (0) Jul 8, 2013 New Jersey

    1Pliny
    1 HT
    1 Sculpin
    1 Jai Lai
    1 FW Parabola
    1 DGH 90 Min
    1 Ten Fidy
    1 Gumball Head
    1 NG Belgian Cherry Red
    1 KBS
     
  6. utopiajane

    utopiajane Grand Pooh-Bah (3,982) Jun 11, 2013 New York
    Pooh-Bah

    I am not invited to the playboy mansion. Got too much moxy for that. But my beers are:

    1. Elysian Space Dust
    2. Orval
    3. Sixpoint Sehr Crisp Pilsener
    4. Firestone Walker Double Jack
    5. Great Lakes Alchemy Hour
    6.Horseheads pale expedition ale
    7. Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout
    8. Unibroue Trois Pisotles
    9.Dogfish head Palo santo marron
    10.Chimay Cinq Cents
    11.Wiehenstephaner Hefe Weissbeir
    12 Evil twin Hop flood
     
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  7. nsheehan

    nsheehan Savant (1,206) Jul 3, 2011 Texas
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    Fun question, I'm guessing we can imagine any beer being in a 330 mL can, as almost no USA beers come in a 330 mL can and HT, PTE, PTY sure don't.
    One each of different beers, ordered how I'd drink them.
    1 Austin Beerworks HM Half IPA
    1 PtY
    1 HT
    1 Crooked Stave Vielle
    1 PtE
    1 Westy Bruin 8
    1 Cascade Sang Noir
    1 King Henry
    1 Jester King RU-55
    1 Parabola 2013. Age that for at least a year.
    1 Westy 12
    And 1 Utopias, which the new civilization would be named after. Sip on this for days, later on in the nuclear winter.
    I guess I'm kind of boring, I've had them all except for PtY, King Henry, and Utopias.
     
  8. kabritz

    kabritz Zealot (559) Aug 1, 2013 Canada (QC)

    Full frontal newbity on my part.
     
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  9. KWMiles

    KWMiles Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2012 Minnesota

    True. But that's where you choose to stand your ground on the lack of realism in his fantasy?
    Well, neckbeards gonna neckbeard.
     
  10. OddNotion

    OddNotion Pooh-Bah (1,915) Nov 1, 2009 New Jersey
    Pooh-Bah

    He did say brewed, not necessarily bottled. :slight_smile:

    I would take 6 Cantillon Fou Foune, 2 Kane Overhead, 2 Black Note, 2 Thomas Hardys Old Ales.
     
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  11. Hdredfern

    Hdredfern Initiate (0) Feb 16, 2012 Texas

    This should be good.

    1- Austin Beer Works Heavy Machinery Double IPA
    3- Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro
    1- DogFish Head 90 Minute
    1- DogFish Head 60 Minute
    1- DogFish Head 120 Minute
    2- Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout
    1- Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
    1- Jester King Salt Lick Saison
    1- Stone Espresso IRS
     
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  12. Hdredfern

    Hdredfern Initiate (0) Feb 16, 2012 Texas

    obviously you are Texan as well with your selections haha
    Cheers!
     
  13. Ol_Johnny_Skippelwicky

    Ol_Johnny_Skippelwicky Initiate (0) Feb 13, 2013 Minnesota

    What a gene pool from which to start! Think of the resultant race of scientists, doctors, philosopherswait...


    Anyway, I would snag:
    1. Parabola
    2. Westy XII
    3. Darkness
    4. Maharaja
    5. Fou Foune
    6. Trois Pistoles
    7. Juicy
    8. Cable Car
    9. Abrasive
    10. Auroch's Horn
    11. NG Wild Sour
    12. CW BBBW
     
  14. Uniobrew31

    Uniobrew31 Pooh-Bah (1,567) Jan 16, 2012 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    If I was running from the playboy mansion with no idea how long it would be before I could return to society I would likely have my hands full of other things
     
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  15. Jeffreysan

    Jeffreysan Initiate (0) Apr 12, 2013 Virginia

    Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, under this scenario, even though I love beer, I'm more worried about helping all of those luscious bunnies into the shelter as opposed to beer.

    Under any other scenario, however:
    2 Sam Adams Utopias
    2 BCS
    2 Augustiner Brau Maximators
    2 Leffe Brune
    2 Straffe Hendrick Quads
    2 more BCSs
     
  16. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    4 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stouts?
     
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  17. woosterbill

    woosterbill Pooh-Bah (2,807) Apr 6, 2009 Kentucky
    Pooh-Bah

    12 x Armand'4 Lente
     
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  18. cmmcdonn

    cmmcdonn Initiate (0) Jun 21, 2009 Virginia

    My cooler would likely be empty. If I'm looking at a wall with 12 packs of every beer ever brewed, I'd have a hard time finding the first needle in the needle stack. Then I'd get frustrated and forget that I had to get into the bunker before the doors closed. Then I'd probably grow an extra arm or something from the radiation.
     
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  19. AlienSwineFlu

    AlienSwineFlu Savant (1,135) Dec 14, 2012 Ohio

    Last twelve beers I'll ever have? Give me a dozen 120 Minute IPAs then... we need to make these count!
     
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  20. eaterfan

    eaterfan Devotee (375) Jul 10, 2013 California
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    I have no idea how big 330 ML is so as many Black Tuesdays as I can get to fit in the cooler.

    1. It's delicious
    2. It ages well
    3. Not bitter so the bunnies will enjoy it
    4. It has a ton of booze so the bunnies will make bad decisions
     
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