2004 DL Yellow Wax

2004 was red wax from all I could tell. I can't imagine if a small portion had yellow wax it'd be any better beer than the red wax.

http://beachbum1975.blogspot.com/2010/02/three-floyds-wax-colors-each.html

Per that link there was a 2005 yellow wax variant.

The only really rare DL I've heard of with anything resembling a yellow wax is the 2006 Woodford Aged. Pic in link below.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/30184/?sort=serv&servT=8&start=0

 

This is the guy who was looking for it:

http://beeradvocate.com/community/members/clintonpuckett.215746/

Not sure if he ever found it. I also know he's looking for an 06 BA DL for a huge tasting, and he found someone who has it, but he's a little hard to contact/communicate with. If anyone has either of those and wants to be a part of the biggest DL tasting of all time, contact Clint.

 

we found a guy here back in late summer when trying to line up a 06 BA DL for a full DL tasting but he would only sell it and wanted retardedly stupid $$ for it...

 

it was the swingtop in the pic http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/30184/?sort=serv&servT=8&start=0.
I'd have to check with my other friends who had the direct conversations with this guy to get exact price requested but lets just say it was over $1000 (think it was over $1500...)

 

I'm pretty sure I met that guy.

 

You're not talking about Mr. Hill are you?

 

Oh, I'm talking about someone else.

 

Mr. Nelson and myself met an older gentleman and his wife at One Trick Pony who had one of the Oak Aged 06 Swingtop Dark Lord's that he sold a couple of years back to someone in Chicago (We have our thoughts on who this might be, but never got confirmation).

To ncaudle: I don't think asking $1,500.00 for that bottle considering the extremely limited amount produced is that extravagant. Too rich for my blood sure, but probably a fair market price (considering what the above bottle I mentioned sold for).

Cheers!

 

Exactly. Nothing I'd ever pay for (even as a group buy), but when you consider that bottles of M and Dave fetching over $1000 at auction -- both of which having much larger bottle counts than the 2006 BA DL -- that seems to be where the market is, or at least was.

 

sounds like the white whale list needs an amendment.

edit: to specifically add the '06 bottling, bourbon BA dark lord is already on there

 

I agree 100%. I personally don't think that anything in any sort of growler format, no matter how well sealed/waxed/taped, etc. deserves to be on the White Whale list... most people just aren't willing to take the risk on the quality control for it to be desirable enough.

 

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't Dave a screw cap bottle? If so, what would be the difference between that and a flip-top or screw cap growler?

 

That's a very good question... one which I'm not sure how to answer. All I can say is that the bottle I had was in fact carbonated (though very very little) and it was sublime!

 

I think it has more to do with the fact that Dave is a 29% freeze-distilled beer. It's more of a liquor at that point, one that can be opened, enjoyed, closed, and then enjoyed again quite some time later. My figuring on this is that it is more in the range of Utopias than DL. I don't believe that DL would be enjoyable after opening and closing it.

 

When I opened that bottle, it twisted and popped sort of like a bottle of soda would. Maybe it's just a higher quality screw cap, I have no idea.

 

Quite surprising

 

If the guys who do the white wale list dont have any, it will probably go pretty low.