Five whales that you've recently caught.

In no particular order. All were great in their own right

Founders CBS
Cantillion Iris
The Bruery 2010 Black Tuesday
Prairie Apple Brandy Noir
Goose Island Rare 2015

 

Bourbon County Rare (2015) - Goose Island
Barrel-Aged Hazelnut Imperial Stout - Cycle
Utopias 2015 - Samuel Adams
Lucybelle - Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
La Roar Grrrz - Bullfrog

 

Oh wow, 2015 has seen my collection of pretentious glassware filled with some extraordinary beers! Of the stuff that is limited or one-and-done here are my top six and honorable mentions (in no particular order other than the top six being exactly that):

Cigar City Leon
Anchorage A Deal With The Devil
Kuhnhenn Solstice Stout
Bottle Logic Fundamental Observation
Creature Comforts See The Stars
Bruery Black Tuesday Reserve

Olde Hickory Omega Point
Bruery Melange 12
Jacks Abby Baby Maker
Jacks Abby PB&J Barrel Aged Framinghammer
Bottle Logic Ideation
Jackie O's Wood Ya Honey

Thanks to Hoarders Society, El Catador, the rapidly improving GA craft beer scene and all of my fine trading friends for keeping this craft beer things one of the most joyous (and delicious) hobbies a man could want!

 

I had a pretty good year:

I got to have:
Bourbon County Stout
Bourbon County Barleywine
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn
The Livery BBA Batch 600
Sierra Nevada BBA Bigfoot

Its been a pretty good year!

 

Past few months:
Sucaba '15
PtE
Grimm Tesseract
Aun Mas Cafe Jesus
Pretty Things Grampus (I consider that a whale now )

 

In the last couple weeks:

1. 2015 Utopias
2. Cantillon Iris
3. Cantillon Vigneronne
4. Cantillon Gueuze 100% Lambic-Bio
5. Prairie Vanilla Noir

A couple others that may qualify are:
Nebraska Brewing Black Betty - Reserve Series Aged in Whiskey Barrels
Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueuze Golden Blend
Cantillon Rose De Gambrinus
Bo & Luke (on draft! Yum!)

Have 2 bottles of Velvet Merkin coming from AZ next week.

At least my interpretation of whales.

 

Cantillon Blabaer
Rare '10
SA Utopias
Double Chocolate Bourbon Mexican Cake
BA Snowed In


Particularly pumped about the top 3 which have all been huge wants for several years, particularly Blabaer which has been my #1 want for longer than I can remember.

 

amending my previous 4-whales post to this appropriate 5-whales one.

I got my hands on some of the Knee Deep lineup:
Citra Extra Pale Ale
Breaking Bud IPA
Lupulin River IIPA
Hoptologist DIPA
Simtra TIPA

(not sure if these are considered whales normally, but right now in CT they sure as hell are)

 

Side Project Derivation #4
BA Abraxas
Coffee Abraxas

 

Pliny The Elder
BCBS
BOMB!
The Abyss
Consecration

 

Recently (2015) able to have:
CBS
Abraxas
Prop '13 (side by side with '15)
Surly Pentagram
Pear Bear

 

so hard to narrow it down. some of my favorite new ticks from 2015:

CD13
Ann b2
SHBRL
Midnight Sun M
Oude Fermier
Armand & Tommy
Le Roar Grrrz Kriek b1
Cherry Cocoa DL
Derivation 1 and 2
KBBS b1 and b2
Cantillon Tyrnilambic Baie d'Argousier
'05 St. Lam
CCK
Wooden Hell
Armand & Tommy
'97 Vigneronne
'99 Oude Geuze
Persica batch 1
Being & Time
Pappy Black Magick

 

Nice. My gf and a friend and I went a little bit out of our way to Grand Rapids on the way back from a certain festival in Michigan back in June because I wanted to go to Founders, and I was really hoping they'd have some CBS. They weren't even open. I've only ever managed to get one *sip* of CBS. Still hoping to slay that particular whale...

Well, I guess my five would be:
- Assassin
- BA Abraxas
- BVDL
- Fou' Foune
- The Bruery weekdays: Grey Monday, Black Tuesday, Mocha Wednesday, and Chocolate Rain (CR would be for Thursday, right?)

 

I'm having a nice local beer tonight - Black Tuesday. Never bothered pursuing this beer, entered the lottery for the first time and won the opportunity to purchase 3 bottles... so opened the first bottle tonight. Very nice.

I've really reduced chasing beers the last 12 months.

 

Had to think for a while on this one. Been a great beer year!

Backyard Rye
Chocolate Rain
Heady Topper
Breakfast Exorcism (to me)
Fyodors Classic

 

- '11 Black Tuesday and '14 Port barrel-aged BT
- Beachwood Blendery 032
- Peche n' Brett
- Prairie Bible Belt
- Firestone '13 and '14

 

Blabaer
2010 Vanilla
Bramble Rye
King Julius
King Sue

 

Had a Westy12 last night for New Years. It was truly magnificent. Believe it perfect. Didn't really 'catch' it but rather have been sitting on it; a '15 KBS. Also magnificent.

 

Over the past 6 months or so...

'14 & '11 Framboos
Westly (1st batch)
'14 Assassin
Flora Cuvee
'15 Zwanze

'twas a great beer year for me!

 

VBDL
Morning Delight
OG Canadian Breakfast Stout
Coffee Abraxas
Rare Dos