Tasting Ghost Whales

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  1. plutoniumpete

    plutoniumpete Initiate (0) Oct 21, 2008 New Jersey

    Stumbled upon this article about a ghost whale tasting (I know what whales are bro, but had never heard of ghost wales). A great read indeed. Imagine getting all the rarest beers around from the past 20 years, putting them in one Denver basement, and drinking them all in one night. I had heard of the breweries sure, but never of any of these specific brews. After reading the article I wish that I had a time machine to snag bottles of them all at their birth.

    http://allaboutbeer.com/article/ghost-whales/
     
    #1 plutoniumpete, Sep 16, 2014
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  2. EnronCFO

    EnronCFO Pooh-Bah (2,193) Mar 29, 2007 Massachusetts
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    Cool story. But I only hunt Alien Whales. Beers so rare no one else has ever seen them and the mere existence can't be verified.
     
    #2 EnronCFO, Sep 16, 2014
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  3. Tsar_Riga

    Tsar_Riga Grand Pooh-Bah (3,349) Sep 9, 2013 Minnesota
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    Meh - whales are not worth it.
     
    #3 Tsar_Riga, Sep 16, 2014
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  4. opwog

    opwog Initiate (0) Jun 16, 2008 Minnesota

    I am not sure how much he has opened over the years, but several years ago, I was in Chris at Ebinezer's own personal cellar and he seemed to have beers on this scale. I don't recall exactly what we had down there, but everything had some story behind it. Not a whole night of drinking, as my gf and I were just passing through on a fall foliage drive and it was just the three of us. I could imagine him still having some ghost whales down there.
     
    #4 opwog, Sep 16, 2014
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  5. Shroud0fdoom

    Shroud0fdoom Initiate (0) Oct 31, 2013 Maryland

    I never tasted a "Ghost Whale", but I've watched "Ghost Shark".... The horror!
     
    #5 Shroud0fdoom, Sep 16, 2014
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  6. ArsMoriendiOU818

    ArsMoriendiOU818 Pooh-Bah (1,632) Nov 5, 2013 Virginia
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    How I wish I were a rich BA.
     
    #6 ArsMoriendiOU818, Sep 16, 2014
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  7. BMBCLT

    BMBCLT Grand Pooh-Bah (3,427) May 9, 2014 South Carolina
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    That or spend all the money you make on beer and live in a house that needs major renovations. Some "great" BA's do just that. Take a look at some "...haul" pics.
     
    #7 BMBCLT, Sep 16, 2014
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  8. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,083) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    Crypto-zymur-oligy?
     
    #8 jRocco2021, Sep 16, 2014
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  9. ArsMoriendiOU818

    ArsMoriendiOU818 Pooh-Bah (1,632) Nov 5, 2013 Virginia
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    Let me rephrase... An absurdly rich BA where my hauls are pictured on pristine marble counter tops.

    As a side note, this article made me laugh out loud numerous times. This just seems absolutely absurd, not to mention snobby.
     
    #9 ArsMoriendiOU818, Sep 16, 2014
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  10. derftron

    derftron Pooh-Bah (1,663) Feb 8, 2012 Oregon
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    drinking lambic for hours on end? no thanks
     
    #10 derftron, Sep 16, 2014
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  11. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,355) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    Be careful with those walez.

    Melville taught us that they're often metaphors for something else.
     
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  12. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    To have the money, time, connections and inclination to travel down this road of acquisition and questionable status is a personal and odd pursuit. That beer people are gaining on snotty wine "collectors" really isn't a surprise. It's just human to gloat about material things.
     
    #12 rgordon, Sep 16, 2014
  13. ONovoMexicano

    ONovoMexicano Initiate (0) Jun 14, 2012 New Mexico

    Pretty fascinating read.
     
    #13 ONovoMexicano, Sep 16, 2014
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  14. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Queequeg new the foolishness of chasing whales, but did it anyway.
     
    #14 rgordon, Sep 16, 2014
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  15. miketd

    miketd Initiate (0) Mar 2, 2006 Ohio

    Sounds like the tastings we used to have, back when I cared about these things.
     
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  16. wrw5031

    wrw5031 Initiate (0) Dec 21, 2011 Georgia

    Aaaaand my cellar feels inadequate.
     
    #16 wrw5031, Sep 16, 2014
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  17. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,083) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    Lets hope for the poor fools who take this journey they too will have a Rachel to pluck a survivor from the wreckage.
     
    #17 jRocco2021, Sep 17, 2014
  18. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,083) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

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  19. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,083) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    :rolling_eyes:
     
    #19 jRocco2021, Sep 17, 2014
  20. imscotty

    imscotty Pundit (898) Mar 23, 2007 Massachusetts

    Wow, just wow.
     
    #20 imscotty, Sep 17, 2014
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