The White Whale List - 2012

Great beer, not worthy of this list though.

 

I can proudly say I'm going to shove beers from this list in your face the next time you and I are drinking in the same room =P

 

So...people are fond of Cantillon I see.

 

Sorry an arbitrary list of beers has made you sick. Perhaps you are taking it the wrong way?

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

 

Sorry that my arbitrary comment on the internet has made you snippy. Maybe you took it too seriously?

 

Let the wale hunting begin!

Thanks for the list, if anything it's always fun to check this out, makes fun debate. Shit top 100 list have kept vh1 in business

 

Very interesting, nice to see a 2012 list. I can hardly pronounce most of these... lol

Damn you public schooling

 

It's funny, for someone who must not care or agree with this list, you're all over it liking post after post that says anything negative. Like I said, it's a list that a group of people created for fun. No need to get sick over it, dude. I'm just looking out for your well being. Perhaps you should take some Advil and get some rest?

I see you've been here since May 2012...perhaps you can teach us something about "whales"?

 

I am no whale hunter but it is fun to browse the list. I have only had some vintage Fou F'oune as it has been a favorite for over 10 years, and 10 years ago Loons were shelf beers.

 

One beer that has long since been forgotten that is not on the list is Magic Hat Thumbsucker. This was always one of the top ten of mine, but I have given up on it.

 

It seems to have 2 things working against it: most recent reviews are saying solid at best and the other is it being a Magic Hat beer. Nothing againt Magic Hat but they would seem out of place on this list.

 

#8, #37, #42 (2), #81, #128, #142. Better go to work then.

Good work on the list, guys.

 

Thanks for all the hard work gents. It was a lot of fun putting this list together.

Cheers,
Jeff

 

Looks like i've had 64/100. Guess I've got something to work on for 2013.

 

VE 02-02-02, Cable Car Kriek and Bourbon Vanilla Dark Lord are what I have had from the top 100.

 

If I may make one suggestion that would help me and some other ppl. Could you add years in parenthesis next to batch numbers to make it a little easier to discern between vintages? Eg: batch 1 (2009). But this list looks great, truly amazing to have such an educated committee spend the time on this. We should have it pinned near the top 100 ba list if possible.

 

Nice work.

Any bottles that had to be excluded from the list cause there are no known bottles? Conversely, any bottles on the list that might not exist any more?

 

Ah, finally!, someone who understands the ineffable nature of the white whale. The lone assailable demon. My one and only purpose, that which I singularly, fanatically, and madly sought to extirpate; that which, I seeking, bound me by my own harpoon-line, dragging me into the unfathomable depths, my last breath spat at thee.

The whale’s whiteness a sign of the harrowing cosmic blankness that exists outside of the sphere of the mind; the great empty, disorderly universe—ignorant of our explanations for pursuing our ends, not caring for our obsessions, not seeking out our darker, unhinted-at reasons for acting. White, to be filled with the objects of our listful quests; a vehicle for our half-formed, unshareable self-realizations. That which we, feeling the entire delirious torment of life and thought, individually choose to pursue. To attempt to define such a thing, to try and force the objects of our monomania on others, to ascribe one meaning to the empty white symbol, to act as if our desires are knowable, shareable, universalizable . . . there could be no greater misunderstanding, no greater stupidity, no greater folly.