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

[trickytunadicky]

$2K matches up with Beerblackbook

 

[mjohnson171]

September 2013 HotD released 12 bottles of Dave, 11 for $2k each to-go/out the door. 1 held back for onsite consumption for $1500. It was for Guide Dogs for the Blind charity.

I remember that day vividly, people went nuts. Anyone remember that supposed story of the guy rolling up in a Lambo and buying a bottle or two, then hoping back in his car and driving away?!?


EDIT: Side note, that 1 Dave available for onsite consumption was purchased and consumed onsite pretty quickly after that charity sale went up, because it was scratched off the menu when I was there in 2014. HotD does have a bottle of Dave on display at the taproom, in the window looking into the brewery, but it's not been available for onsite consumption since that one bottle in 2013.

 

[KevSal]

I remember that day vividly, people went nuts. Anyone remember that supposed story of the guy rolling up in a Lambo and buying a bottle or two, then hoping back in his car and driving away?!?

i bet that was AAron, overpaying $5000 per bottle!

 

[trickytunadicky]

I know that 1420 Bar did some kind of sale of tickets to sample Dave when they opened, but I don’t think it was $5K total.

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

Do people other than box_social still care about the old c&c La Folie bottles? Also what's the hierarchy of rarity on those, something like:

1. Falling Rock 10th Anniversary
2. Bottleworks 10th Anniversary
3. oldest vintages ('02-'05 I think?)
4. "newer" vintages ('06-'09?)

or nah?

ive been searching for OG Falling rock for like 6 years without success.

2/10 ticker, beer reviewer failure, shops at bevmo.

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

They are releasing it c&c again this year. I assume it’s pasturized so I don’t know what the point is.

it's not pasteurized, its on the small batch system, and it's a vast improvement over the Costco turdfuel 22s.

also the nonpasteurized small format transatlantique kriek is legit as well

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

ahh great thread indeed! sooooo many memories!

i loved this when it came out

also those Funky Buddha prescription labels were awesome!

lol this is my pic from 2012 churchills finest hour and ironically enough, we opened it next to mimosa that day.

those 40 bottle florida whales were the proto hype of what we now suffer through regularly. and the 22 bottle "release" of WIDE AWAKE IM A NON BARREL AGED STOUT TRADING FOR ONE OFF LAMBIC ITS MORNING

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

The batch 1 750s of Bourbon Barrel Plead the 5th. rmalinowski4 got an all-timer of a haul for that I believe. I got a little less but still far too much in retrospect.

dat aigre

nevr5get

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

this is what people used to lose their **** over when i got into trading

i traded an et tu brute for one of these


that's a very old-fashioned sentence

 

[trickytunadicky]

i traded an et tu brute for one of these


that's a very old-fashioned sentence

Welcome Alex. Lemme guess. You found an article linked on Facebook that mentioned this tread.

 

[JulianB1]

dat aigre

nevr5get

One of the most spectacularly gross things I've had, we opened a bottle at the bad beer tasting I hosted a couple of years ago. Managed to be simultaneously sickeningly sweet and disgustingly sour at the same time, like if someone dropped a shot of vinegar into a glass of Dark Lord.

 

[KevSal]

like if someone dropped a shot of vinegar into a glass of Dark Lord.

shhhh don’t 3 floyd’s any ideas for next years treatments

 

[boogercrack]

like if someone dropped a shot of vinegar into a glass of Dark Lord.

 

[pen15clubmember]

September 2013 HotD released 12 bottles of Dave, 11 for $2k each to-go/out the door. 1 held back for onsite consumption for $1500. It was for Guide Dogs for the Blind charity.

I remember that day vividly, people went nuts. Anyone remember that supposed story of the guy rolling up in a Lambo and buying a bottle or two, then hoping back in his car and driving away?!?


EDIT: Side note, that 1 Dave available for onsite consumption was purchased and consumed onsite pretty quickly after that charity sale went up, because it was scratched off the menu when I was there in 2014. HotD does have a bottle of Dave on display at the taproom, in the window looking into the brewery, but it's not been available for onsite consumption since that one bottle in 2013.

Hmmm, it was on the menu last time I was there. Was this just a joke?


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[KevSal]

Hmmm, it was on the menu last time I was there. Was this just a joke?


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the "3 credit card limit per party" is a joke

 

[mjohnson171]

Hmmm, it was on the menu last time I was there. Was this just a joke?


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Probably real. I’m sure Alan still has some Dave stashed away.

I just know it wasn’t on the menu when I was there in 2014. But the menu changes so often I’m not surprised.

 

[litheum94]

Hmmm, it was on the menu last time I was there. Was this just a joke?


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Yeah, it has definitely been on the menu somewhat recently (definitely more recent than 2014). Pretty sure it was on there within the past year.

 

[davey101]

Remember when Cantillon released actual literal vinegar? I remember seeing it on eBay, back when that was allowed and a reasonable thing. Instead I spent all my eBay bucks on Tuverbol and OG Rare and Vanilla for MSRP. Silly 2010.

 

[furley]

Remember when Cantillon released actual literal vinegar? I remember seeing it on eBay, back when that was allowed and a reasonable thing. Instead I spent all my eBay bucks on Tuverbol and OG Rare and Vanilla for MSRP. Silly 2010.

learn more at lambic.info

 

[stakem1]

Remember when Cantillon released actual literal vinegar? I remember seeing it on eBay, back when that was allowed and a reasonable thing. Instead I spent all my eBay bucks on Tuverbol and OG Rare and Vanilla for MSRP. Silly 2010.

Never sold as a single bottle, always a 2-pack lol

 

[surlytheduff1]

Or that one time that dude sent you a 64oz growler of Monster 29, that was really Fore Smoked Stout.

Juke!

dat aigre

nevr5get

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

Or that one time that dude sent you a 64oz growler of Monster 29, that was really Fore Smoked Stout.

Juke!

Haha I almost brought that old gem up

I was feeling invincible “this 18% drinks like 8%! Also way more rauch than I was expecting!”

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

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??

that low key ad payoff

 

[yeahnatenelson]

So a pH1 just popped up on MBC for $1k. Are there people $1k interested in an old -- the old -- genie bottle of beat?

EDIT: for any of you hazy on the backstory of pH1, here's an article.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

So a pH1 just popped up on MBC for $1k. Are there people $1k interested in an old -- the old -- genie bottle of beat?

EDIT: for any of you hazy on the backstory of pH1, here's an article.

Did someone say hazy?

 

[stupac2]

So a pH1 just popped up on MBC for $1k. Are there people $1k interested in an old -- the old -- genie bottle of beat?

EDIT: for any of you hazy on the backstory of pH1, here's an article.

That would be a shocking price for that. In fact, half that would be surprising. Who still cares about pH1? It's also probably way over the hill.

 

[KevSal]

wait for the discount sale at $900

 

[JulianB1]

I feel like that price is about 3x what you'd get for it. Like, I could see 400 at the absolute max.

 

[mjohnson171]

Some poor sucker is going to pay that not knowing that Beat fresh is best.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

That would be a shocking price for that. In fact, half that would be surprising. Who still cares about pH1? It's also probably way over the hill.

I have a hard time imagining a sour beer from a non-"premier lambic producer" fetching that kind of money. The secondary market is still very overheated but the high hundreds figures are driven by lambic new-monies and, ehem, stout afficionados. Old AWA's do not yield the bucks, not even the old C&C La Folies*.

However, this does make me wonder how some of the barrel-fermented HF saisons (Ann, Art, etc.) will fare in ten years' time.




* I get that Falling Rock continues to elude a few of you, but this seems more like a matter of them simply not being many (any?) bottles left.