Let's Remember Some Beers (In Memoriam: Old Whales)

[brian4beer]

Not sure if B1 Persica has been mentioned but just had this beer again last Saturday and continues to be an absolute peach bomb. Love this beer!

 

[KevSal]

Not sure if B1 Persica has been mentioned but just had this beer again last Saturday and continues to be an absolute peach bomb. Love this beer!

went to a peach tasting a few years ago hosted by CheapBeerBuzz, persica batch 1 was my favorite of the day, stunning the flavors that had, held up so well with the fresh peach beers we were having it with, at the time new glarus peach had just dropped

sad how far b2 blends dropped, hard to recreate that magic i guess

 

[ggfunk]

went to a peach tasting a few years ago hosted by CheapBeerBuzz, persica batch 1 was my favorite of the day, stunning the flavors that had, held up so well with the fresh peach beers we were having it with, at the time new glarus peach had just dropped

sad how far b2 blends dropped, hard to recreate that magic i guess

Same kinda thing happened with the once stellar and now just pretty good Peche n Brett.

 

[JCastle1]

Same kinda thing happened with the once stellar and now just pretty good Peche n Brett.

Aww, I used to love that beer . Haven't had it in like 6 years since I got a bunch from Shmeal

 

[CheapBeerBuzz]

Same kinda thing happened with the once stellar and now just pretty good Peche n Brett.

I have some batch 1 and 2 bottles sitting at home...maybe I'll bring one up for Brews this weekend???

 

[Gonzoillini1]

https://punchdrink.com/articles/in-memoriam-great-rare-beer-whales-of-yore/

yeahnatenelson you're famous. Saw this posted in a Facebook beer group this afternoon.

 

[FTowne1]

https://punchdrink.com/articles/in-memoriam-great-rare-beer-whales-of-yore/

yeahnatenelson you're famous. Saw this posted in a Facebook beer group this afternoon.

“ the list is primarily the work of older forum members—like, in their 30s”

Pfft

 

[SAISON FUCK]

https://punchdrink.com/articles/in-memoriam-great-rare-beer-whales-of-yore/

yeahnatenelson you're famous. Saw this posted in a Facebook beer group this afternoon.

yeahnatenelson has been famous for a long while.

 

[trickytunadicky]

I feel called out.

 

[KevSal]

we’re old guys!

 

[lb304854]

Show yourself AAron Goldfarb, you coward!

 

[furley]

@aufaber

 

[yeahnatenelson]

yeahnatenelson you're famous. Saw this posted in a Facebook beer group this afternoon.

Tite.

Can't wait until my work on whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich gets picked up by Bon Appétit.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Tite.

Can't wait until my work on whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich gets picked up by Bon Appétit.

Have you considered posting a similar thread on TalkSandwich.com?

 

[KevSal]

Show yourself AAron Goldfarb, you coward!

 

[JulianB1]

https://punchdrink.com/articles/in-memoriam-great-rare-beer-whales-of-yore/

yeahnatenelson you're famous. Saw this posted in a Facebook beer group this afternoon.

That was a decent article, but I'd love to know the basis for this claim about Dave: "Bottles still exist, and can fetch as much as $5,000 each."

 

[trickytunadicky]

That was a decent article, but I'd love to know the basis for this claim about Dave: "Bottles still exist, and can fetch as much as $5,000 each."

Certainly not Beerblackbook.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

That was a decent article, but I'd love to know the basis for this claim about Dave: "Bottles still exist, and can fetch as much as $5,000 each."

Yea I'd feel really bad for someone who paid that much for a Dave.

Says the guy that paid too much for a Dave (but no where near that much).

 

[yeahnatenelson]

That was a decent article, but I'd love to know the basis for this claim about Dave: "Bottles still exist, and can fetch as much as $5,000 each."

My one significant gripe with the article is presumption is that we (the olds) collectively "are over" these beer styles, and this is why nobody cares about these beers any longer:

The thing they all had in common was that each of them were flavor profiles and breweries the modern beer drinker simply quit caring about.

To think, people actually drank bourbon barrel-aged porters and phoney lambics! Simpler times, those late aughts...

I would argue that these beers have been forgotten largely because the rest of the industry has caught up with the avant-garde over the past decade. Good barrel-aged stouts and porters are not in short supply, as are barrel-fermented saisons and lambic-style beers.






Oh, and the thing about a Magic Hat beer that more than two people are wistful about. Where did Thumbsucker even come up in this thread??

 

[SAISON FUCK]

My one significant gripe with the article is presumption is that we (the olds) collectively "are over" these beer styles, and this is why nobody cares about these beers any longer:



To think, people actually drank bourbon barrel-aged porters and phoney lambics! Simpler times, those late aughts...

I would argue that these beers have been forgotten largely because the rest of the industry has caught up with the avant-garde over the past decade. Good barrel-aged stouts and porters are not in short supply, as are barrel-fermented saisons and lambic-style beers.






Oh, and the thing about a Magic Hat beer that more than two people are wistful about. Where did Thumbsucker even come up in this thread??

Thumbsucker was the article author's white whale. Sad whale is sad.

 

[trickytunadicky]

I mean... I would order Number 9 if there was nothing else craft lite around way back....Like I sometimes order 312 or Honkers now.

 

[KevSal]

Oh, and the thing about a Magic Hat beer that more than two people are wistful about. Where did Thumbsucker even come up in this thread??

yea wth is that doing on the list? put it on a list with M and isabelle is silly

 

[user 307594]

I tried thumbsucker at the brewery sometime in 07 or 08, before the vermont abv cap was raised from 8% to 16%. It was laughable how far above the 7.8% listed abv it was

 

[SAISON FUCK]

I tried thumbsucker at the brewery sometime in 07 or 08, before the vermont abv cap was raised from 8% to 16%. It was laughable how far above the 7.8% listed abv it was

Thanks for bragging about your whale slaying. We are all impressed.

 

[user 307594]

Thanks for bragging about your whale slaying. We are all impressed.

lol at a magic hat beer being called a whale

 

[JulianB1]

Oh, and the thing about a Magic Hat beer that more than two people are wistful about. Where did Thumbsucker even come up in this thread??

I searched out of curiosity. Fahmie25 mentioned it as one of his wants back in 09-10 and wondered about acquiring one, and beerindex mentioned it offhand. But that was it, and there wasn't really any discussion of it.

 

[FoudreGuy]

That was a decent article, but I'd love to know the basis for this claim about Dave: "Bottles still exist, and can fetch as much as $5,000 each."

Isn't that what HotD has sold them for recently with the proceeds going to an animal rescue charity?

 

[BadJustin]

Isn't that what HotD has sold them for recently with the proceeds going to an animal rescue charity?

Thought it was 2k

 

[FoudreGuy]

Thought it was 2k

Maybe that was it, I don't remember.

I like the crazy theory that Alan is still making Dave on the sly.

 

[JulianB1]

Isn't that what HotD has sold them for recently with the proceeds going to an animal rescue charity?

How recently? I mean, I could see a bottle going for 5k if it was a charity deal I guess. When they sold them in 2012 or 2013 or whatever it was, they were definitely 2k (and 1.5k for on-premise consumption - maybe they still are?). Dunno if there's been sales since, but I do recall one being listed on one of the FB raffle groups maybe a year or so ago with a valuation around 2k and not drawing a ton of interest (not surprising given the composition of those groups).