The White Whale List - 2012

Fixed it for you. For all the people that complain that Lost Abbey's beers are flat they sure have produced quite a few "walezbro"

 

Lost Abbey has made quite a few awesome sours. It was as if Tomme looked at the beer, thought to himself "bubbles?", and then said, "ill never brew this rare beauty again!"
On a more serious note...The list should read:
Cantillon
3 Font
Cantillon
3 Font
Cantillon
3 Font
LA
3Font
Cantillon
RR
...

 

I tried making my rankings:

Cantillon
Cantillon
Cantillon
3F
Cantillon
Cantillon
3F
Cantillon
3F
Cantillon
Cantillon
Cantillon
3F

But apparently my ranks were very different than everyone elses

 

I put all the Drie Fonteinen beers first and then all the Cantillon. When I ran out, I used random numbers. Is that not how I was supposed to do it?

Seriously people...these are clearly two of the best breweries in the world. They make beers that age extremely well. Many of these beers are either really old or are only available in one or two bars across an ocean, or both. Did you really think many of their beers wouldn't top the list?

 

Good point. The list is dominated by sours which is probably the style that ages like no other. There are no ipas on the list. Why? Because you can't collect ipas.

You can collect (some) sours with the expectation that you can hold onto it for as long as you want to and it'll probably still be awesome.

 

How does this compare to Jim's list that he recently updated? http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-white-whale-list.51214/

 

In the first line of AgentZero's thread, he mentions SpeedwayJim, yet SpeedwayJim also has a White Whale list. Which one am I supposed to believe to be true? Last year (before these were updated), there was only one list to reference.

 

Dude, it's just a list that reflects the taste / desirability preferences of 2-3 tasting groups. There's no "absolute" and none of these lists are "right."

 

the one thing I suggest is to expand outside of Europe and US. Kind of an elitist list really. Then again if not in those two parts of the world then it does not matter really using BA thinking

 

What non-Euro or US beers would you put on the list?

 

Also, why is 50/50's Old Fitz on the list? Is it in reference to the 2007 release?

 

It was an attempt to update Jim's list, with Jim participating in the process.

 

stuff from NZ or Australia that only a few have had.

 

This. I would refer to the list references by AgentZero as its a compilation of opinion by me and a ton of people who know a lot more about rare beers than I do.

 

You need to give yourself more credit

 

Yes, it's referencing the old 2007 bottling...I think Mike needs to edit that.

+1 Exactly, how could anything that is unknown and has very few ratings be on a list with all the top/hyped beers of all-time? Just doesn't make any sense. We aren't ignoring any beer or location. If it has very little popularity/news/ratings, how is any suppose to know about it?

 

I will ask again...

 

Canada doesn't even have anything?

 

Dude, the one which has the most of _your cellar beers_ is obviously the one to believe. Duh.