Rogue releases White Whale Ale, infused with pages from the novel Moby-Dick

This is incredibly stupid.

 

Impressive - they won't even mention any additional details.

 

Can't imagine it's any worse than that voodoo donut maple campfire ale.

Dope

 

So a papery/cardboardy flavor in this beer would not be an off flavor then?

 

This sounds outrageous. I have to buy it.

/sarcasm.

 

If this was April 1st... Since it isn't, I can only assume Rogue just flipped us all the bird. Craft has officially jumped the shark.

 

only drinking this if it's made with pages from the 1st ed.

 

I already wasn't going to purchase this since it's Rogue, but I just had to click this to see if this was a joke. Apparently it is not. I could maybe, MAYBE see this if they use old copies of the book because after a while some of the chemicals in the pages break down and cause a vanilla-like aroma to form. This is what attributes to the "old book smell" that people enjoy so much (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/134136). If these are copies that were published in the last half-century (more likely since I can't imagine making beer by destroying valuable and possibly rare books is an awesome idea), this beer is going to be awful insofar as it will taste like eating a ream of paper. It will probably be awful regardless. As Dope said, there's still about a 99.853% chance that this will be better than Maple Bacon Abomination Ale was (according to every BA's opinion on the beer; I haven't had it myself).

 

WANT

 

Best. Fuck-off. Ever.

I love it!

 

Think it will be the same if I just rip out a page from my copy of Moby Dick, crumple it up, and toss it in my glass of beer???

Waste of a book... and why would you want paper in your beer?

 

I hope it tastes like Whale! mmm....love me some whale!
Whale ka-bobs, whale stew, whale waffles, whale chops...

 

Screw the harpoons, kill it with fire. That sounds horrid

 

I prefer to carefully cut out a page, roll it tight around a pencil (for best results, one of Henry's pencils if you got one handy- check 'way back in your kitchen junk drawer), lick the exposed edge, remove pencil and use the page as a straw. I call it an "Ishmael".

 

Surely they can't be serious.

 

"Michael and Emily Powell took pages from a copy of the book and, along with Rogue Brewmaster John Maier, placed them into the brew kettle. Moby-Dick is especially meaningful to Michael Powell, who was inspired to become a bookseller when he found a first edition of the novel in a box of books he'd purchased."

Alias=Pulp Fiction

 

First time hearing about Rogue? Of course they're serious.

 

I'm not gonna defend Rogue on this one. This is just... too weird.

 

And don't call them Shirley.