Your Epic Whale Fail

thats exactly what i said as i drank it my friend who i split it with said the same thing was weird as hell

 

Dude either doesn't know what hops are supposed to taste like or he has fried his bitterness sensors on his tongue lol.

 

By the look at this thread, words have no meaning. The term whale means absolutely nothing.

 

Sculpin.

 

I'm sure it's been posted already but I feel like bumping my BA post count to say that the beer you're referring to is pretty much the exact opposite of a "whale" beer.

 

1. Westvleteren 12 - Decent but Rochefort 8 and 10 are better and the best quads I've had.
   
2. Dark Lord (2013)
3. KBS (2014) - but is this actually a 'whale' these days?
   
4. Heady Topper

By no means are any of these 'bad' beers, but as whales they didn't do it for me.

To the comments about Pliny... I think it's an amazingly well balanced all around beer. I think those who don't like it are IPA-focused beer drinkers that probably like Heady Topper better, and would find Pliny too malty and sweet. Since I am not IPA-crazed, I find it's malt/hops balance to be perfect.

 

+1 Dark Lord. What a sweet, sticky mess in the years I've tried.

Logsdon Peche n Brett was a massive letdown, especially since the base beer rocks. Not a huge whale, but hard to get in the Midwest without over-trading.

The "meh" reviews for Cantillon Blabaer on here scare me since I just traded my left arm for an '09. At least, what I traded is a bunch of stuff I've had before.

 

KBS is listed here multiple times. A lot of people sit on this one too long - myself included in the past couple years. I find it to be a completely different beer after 6 months, with the great coffee flavors completely faded.

 

Whatever you say man.

 

I think a minimum requirement to be considered a whale is that you can't just walk into a liquor store and get one whenever you want, though.

 

Then let's just completely stop using this term.

 

Rochefort 10, Zombie Dust, KBS, Black Note

 

the term whale being used in this thread was defined in the original post. all the people whining about the proper use of the word are just being pedantic. at least most people who have posted have used the original post's context white whale....something that you spend a great deal of time or effort trying to get.

 

I read the first page. Before I go any further, does anyone actually post "whales" or even whale-like beers?

 

Yes please

 

Yo bro if you don't slay whales, then dont use the term. Whale is not a term that can be defined by the OP - the OP mis-defined it. Whale (in the beer community) has been a term long before January 31, 2014.

 

Dark Lord, even let it age 2 years because I heard it can be sweet. But man it was still like liquid sugar and gross. Whoever got that bottle of Darkness from me got a deal.

 

FFF Zomie Dust. They could piss in a bottle and wax it and everyone would go ape shite' over it.