Your Epic Whale Fail

B.O.R.I.S. Van Wink & Abyss....Boo

 

Darklord for me as well, agree w/ Black Tuesday too.

Cheers

 

Bells Hopslam. Don't know if it's a whale, but at 20 bucks a six I expected better. Good beer. Not great IMO.

 

Dark Lord, BCBS, and 120 minute...

 

Deschutes Abyss. A very good beer, but the more easily available Dogfish 120 is basically the same beer.
I could say the same about Samuel Adams Utopias.

I have a gravitational pull to weird beers. I can't help myself and I never learn. Key Lime Pie, Peanut butter, bull testicles ( I never landed that one). I go after them and they so rarely rise to the level of mediocrity. Keeps me in the hunt, though.

 

Hmmm, not sure any of the beers mentioned are whales . For me its Mimosa

 

Whaaa? Abyss, Utopias and 120 are all the same ?

 

Hunahpu. Couldn't finish the bottle.

 

Yeah WTF is that all about ?
I cant think of 3 beers that are more diametrically different on EVERY level

 

Thanks J
you truly know your brews, and cheers to you sir!

 

Man have you been drinking heavily today? Lol. Those are 3 completely different styles that are not even close in any way

 

Not seeing many whales on this thread (Lagunitas Sucks and Rogue?), but based on the level of beers other people are saying...

Dark Lord. Wouldn't buy it for $10 if it was sitting on a shelf.

 

Westy 12.

 

Cantillon Blåbær Lambik was the biggest disappointment. KBS and Sucaba were also not that great as I expected.

 

I remember my friends and I psyching ourselves up for Christmas when we were kids, like the presents were going to be a LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. By the time all the wrapping was off I usually had this "ahem" feeling. Days or weeks later I realized the best thing about that particular Christmas was that there was nothing to complain about. You got what you asked for. You didn't get just underwear.

I totally forgot this lesson when I started chasing beer whales. Every time I got one (and subsequent copies to compare) I was surprised that there was no epiphany, no "where have you been my whole life?'. Overtime I've realized no beer will change my life, but some have no flaws whatsoever and I am very glad I finally got to try them.

 

Yeah Idk what classifies as a "whale" but I also found Lagunitas to be underwhelming, same for Kona and Brooklyn. They're not bad, but I can get better beer for the same price or cheaper. Same thing goes for Piraat and La Trappe.

Also, due to what the posters above me said I like to go in as "ignorant" as possible. I randomly picked a few bottles yesterday for party and they just so happened to hit the sweet spot in terms of taste.

 

cherry rye

 

Bomb, Lost on me, kinda flat , no pepper, hard to find a proper adjective that's positive, kinda bland. Mexican Cake is a helluva lot better, more of everything I heard bomb was, not worth $8 a bottle, not even close.

 

Fou Foune. I had a 2013 bottle on New Year's Eve and got absolutely zero apricot flavor. I blame the vintage though, definitely looking forward to trying a different one in the future.