#1,000th beer. What should it be?

If it hasn't been said 1000 times... Beer 1000 from Fremont.

 

Take a deep breath and prepare, pilgrim of beerdom; the junction you now stand at is no mere personal choice. For the path you choose has the potential to set the world into cacophonous competition and strife, or illuminate the future of a brave new beer world of opportunity and unimaginable progressiveness. The unraveling of such fates could be thus:

Do dally in your choice of this millennial malt beverage, and allow beer advocates to banter over what shall be thy thousandth. In this quaint virtual village dubbed Beer Advocate, thou will become (with passage of moons) the subject of the plies and pleads of savants and advocates, champions and poobahs, to bring honor to their proposed ales and lagers by accepting them as worthy, yet you turn them all away. None are sufficient to support the mottled 1000-ale arch as the critical, kingly key-stone.

Such will be the disbelief at your obliviousness to the carbonated 1K-quaffed candidates, that talk shall spread from the web-based wilderness to the network of pubs and taverns the jilted pale ale-pushers and stout-suggestors frequent. Locales far and wide will be awash in speculation, rumor, and anticipation.
"Have you heard of the drinker who shuns the thousandth?" some patron shall quarry. "What manner of man could have such unreachable standards... and, by Beelzebub's beard, what beer could ever be worthy enough to meet them...?"
"Not an offering in my tavern, nor the best in this land could be fit enough for such a role," the barkeep answers. "One wonders if such a brew exists, or even could, veritably and truly, be brewed."

Ah, yes. Such shall be the gossip of the gose-guzzlers and the prattle propagating from "prost"-proclamations. And the intrigue and interest in the creation of a worthy-enough beverage to satisfy the Shunner of the Thousandth shall motivate the attempts of brewers everywhere to craft a concoction which the Shunner cannot resist.

Inevitably, a wave of anxiety over the impending, yet never-arriving selection of the One (thousandth) shall build, until word reaches across seas and continents. Countries and governments will become aware of the power the Shunner possesses to choose one beer... one beer which the masses will look to and see as worthy of the him: as one beer that can meet the imbibing-standards of any mortal who ever has and ever will walk on this Earth. One beer which will become the most-sold, most-sought, and most-savored sousing solution ever. An international brewing-arms race will be ignited, each world power enlisting their centuries-old brewing histories, state-of-the-art technologies, and scientific institutes to out-do the other and win the Shunner's acceptance of a beer to conquer all. The prize: A godly beer the likes of which the world has never known. The stakes: world domination.



Or ya could just go pick anything off the shelf you've never tried before before any of that happens and post a review/rating on here like any other of the 999 you've had so far. I mean, it's just a number, right?

Whatever floats yer boat.

 

Crap! I made my prophesy too late. I hate it when I do that! I'll never be a great prophet like Nostradamus... Oh well. Thanks for reading it, anyway. Maybe I can pitch it to the next guy on #999.

Yes, the middle-path. That's often wisest. To the Thousandth and beyond...

Edit: Now I see the post immediately above mine. Doh! I think you made the choice while I was typing my essay. Cheers, anyway...

 

Indeed. One of them would be bound to follow the scenario I just outlined and throw the world into chaos/unbridled brewing progression.

Anyway, nice barley wine choice. A special and substantial style for such an occasion. I myself am on like.. 237 beers tried (all reviewed!) after about three yrs of beer exploration. I may get to 1000 someday, but it'll be awhile at my rate.

 

Congratulations on 1000. I shall not be far behind you my good man. =)

 

That's all that matters. Had a good beer but didn't take it TOO seriously... that's the way to do it. Cheers.