Large format lambic and RR sour prices/availability/trade value?

Large-format 3F and Cantillon exists but you'd need to trade something ridiculous for it. Large-format RR tends to trade well above what it would take to get the equivalent volume of small bottles, just because people love large formats and there are so few of them made and they're a BITCH to ship. I'm not sure what it takes to get one, honestly, but I know I wouldn't bother trading for one personally.

 

There's a few magnums I'm aware of with Cantillon/3F. I believe 3F had Oude Gueze Magnums were only made in 1994, 1995, and 2004. The 2004 has serious quality issues (massively oxidized and flat possibly due to cork issues) but I think thoreaulikeagirl has one for trade.

For Cantillon there's this year's Cuvee de St Gilloise magnums and jeroboams that were just announced. Of course there are several loons that are in magnum format that are Akkurat exclusives....Goldackerl and Soliel come to mind. There's also a mid-1990's Gambrinus and mid-2000's Cantillon Classic that I've heard people talk about.

You might have better luck tracking down a HotD magnum or RR jeroboam, those are actually somewhat obtainable.

Edit: There's also T25 jeroboams floating around, but they made only like 20 of them, and that beer sucks anyway.

 

T25 doesn't suck. It's not Lambeek Loves Dragonfruit or Biggs Stache. It's quite good. Is it as good as Beatification? No (there are Jeroboams of that, too).

 

Yeah but literally all of them are in RR's possession. Man, I would do terrible, terrible things for one of those.

 

3L temptation is typically the hardest one to get. The last batch of 3L tempt that they made was only for employees and 20 bottles. They did a (not so) silent release of 3L Consecration last week so that may be easier to obtain, however that also was only 20 bottles.

 

Indeed, Cantillon just released 1.5L and 3L bottles of the Cuvée Saint Gilloise, but only for people who have a seasonal ticket to Jeans favourite football team (Union Saint Gilloise). Bottle count on the 3L bottles was only 16 though. They have a few more magnums.
From the end of september on, they normally will start selling magnums of the regular Gueuze as well! So that's something to look forward to

 

some sad fucks around in this world. But yeah some americans will probably pay these ridiculous amounts for this

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brasserie-Cantillon/110627652322553?hc_location=stream

 

Really? When at the end of Sept? I'll be in Brussels around Sept 22 and would love one of those bad boys...

 

How do you plan on getting the Union Saint Gilloise seasonal ticket?

 

Why would the regular gueuze only go to people with the season tickets? I suppose they could do that, but it doesn't really make sense.

 

I can't read good

 

I traded a 3 liter of supplication 1:1 for Rye whisky Papier.

 

It does just depend -- I had one with a leaky cork. It was still totally delicious, but flat as a pancake.

 

I'm not the only one, gn0sis has more stuff than I will ever dream of and he posted about it in 2012:

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/2004-drie-fonteinen-oude-geuze-magnum.56981/