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

[lazerviking]

SHBRL has sold for ~$1500 (and traded straight-up for a Cable Car Kriek as well, if I remember correctly), and VSB has gone for ~$500-600.

I know that was true a few years ago, but is that still the case?

Throwing another beer of yesteryear in the mix:

I remember feeling like such a badass when this got brought out a "whale" share.

Edit: stakem, we are on the same wavelength, though I didn't go with one of yours.

 

[JulianB1]

We are nearing page 4 and noone mentioned Bullfrog yet...



black cherry bomb
blue cheer
beekeeper


old toad barleywine (ok, was never a sought after whale but might be my favorite bullfrog beer.)

These are the old school whale ticks that I'd really like to try but know there's absolutely no way it will ever happen.

 

[JulianB1]

Gonzoillini had a good post (I think in Random Beer Thoughts a few weeks ago) along with pictures of someone bringing the first few years of Sexual Chocolate (including the first BASC batch I think) to his Birthday bottle share in Chicago several years back and - I think I'm paraphrasing the post correctly here) "acting like he had the nuclear codes in his cooler".

 

[Gonzoillini1]

4 pages and no one has even mentioned Isabelle Proximus yet?

 

[stakem1]

I think I've said this before in another thread, but I actually met you at the Splinter Blue release. You don't forget a tall, bald man who talked about Berliners for 3 hours straight. You actually gave me a sample of one of your homebrewed Berliners that was really damn good. Someone also was passing around a bottle of infected KtG.


Splinter Blue was so ******* good.

I recall the KtG passing around and recall asking why it was tangy (thats the wine treatment bro!) My buddy Josh and his brother Justin were the ones sharing that and OG alpha kong that day.

RIP Josh

Some things never change - still a berliner tool, but doubt I had the power to preach 3 hours unless i was hammered and hammered i mighta been.

 

[JulianB1]

Speaking of berliners, at one of the first big beer festivals I went to my favorite beer of the day of the OG Smuttynose Strawberry Short Weisse. Bottles of that were extremely hard to come by from what I recall (I had it on draft). I still can't recall having had a better with a better presentation of sweet strawberry fruit flavor than that one.

 

[jedwards]

In the future, I expect to be tagged for threads like this.

What was that bar in Charleston that was growlering/bottling off kegs they got? I traded a Vagabond for one of their 12oz handbottle of CBS in... 2009ish?

The Captain Lawrence releases were ridiculous, but those still the most fun releases I've ever been to. Drinking a Brute vert in 30° near-darkness!

 

[2plums4one]

4 pages and no one has even mentioned Isabelle Proximus yet?

Yep, and as of 2 years ago it was still drinking great. Better than B1 DDG.

I'll list a few ticks I've had
SA Millenium
B1 utopias
BORIS Van Wink
Bardstown Barleywine
Blendiculous B1
fun times

 

[RyanG1]

In the future, I expect to be tagged for threads like this.

What was that bar in Charleston that was growlering/bottling off kegs they got? I traded a Vagabond for one of their 12oz handbottle of CBS in... 2009ish?

The Captain Lawrence releases were ridiculous, but those still the most fun releases I've ever been to. Drinking a Brute vert in 30° near-darkness!

Good seeing you Saturday.

 

[RyanG1]

Not a "whale" by any means, but the first time I ticked Cascade Bourbonic and Vlad, I was hooked and traded who the **** knows what for those.

 

[JulianB1]

4 pages and no one has even mentioned Isabelle Proximus yet?

Izzy was excellent back when I finally got to try it in 2015. A bottle was opened at a big share a few months ago in Miami that I showed up late for and I just missed getting a pour. Which was no big deal since I'd had it, but I was definitely curious how it was doing.

I actually thought about mentioning it, but declined to do so since it still seems to be a beer that people seek out.

 

[CITC3120327]

c&c 120 minute

thats one of my "whales". 120 was one of the beers that really got me into the craft game. used to have to trade for it because Ohio laws sucked for a while.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

What was that bar in Charleston that was growlering/bottling off kegs they got? I traded a Vagabond for one of their 12oz handbottle of CBS in... 2009ish?

Charleston Beer Exchange?

 

[jedwards]

Excerpt from an actual e-mail I once actually sent in real life: I've got a BA BORIS for trade, would love to get Flying Fish Exit 1.

Anyone else remember Beatrix...? Not sure I ever got the real story on that one.

I still remember trading through the nose for my Live Oak Hefe growler to tick the top 100.

Charleston Beer Exchange?

Yes! That's the place.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Just going to image dump old tastings

Our Barrel Ale

Deviation

T20

Bullfrog Sours

Izzy and Tome

08 Darklord

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

IDK how I lucked into this group

 

[JulianB1]

Does anyone still care about the early batches of Love Child? I believe #1 was extremely hard to get at one point, I have a friend who had a vert going back to 2 and that was his white whale. He was chasing it all over the Facebook groups for a while, but I'm not sure he ever got it before dropping out of the trading scene.

 

[jedwards]

What was that bar in Charleston that was growlering/bottling off kegs they got? I traded a Vagabond for one of their 12oz handbottle of CBS in... 2009ish?

Hah, found a pic of that:

And an old whale tasting pic (Dec 2009):

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Does anyone still care about the early batches of Love Child? I believe #1 was extremely hard to get at one point, I have a friend who had a vert going back to 2 and that was his white whale. He was chasing it all over the Facebook groups for a while, but I'm not sure he ever got it before dropping out of the trading scene.

IIRC B1 was an employees & friends only batch, and all of the others were wide release.

 

[JulianB1]

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?

 

[thebandit1]

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?

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

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Do people other than box_social still care about the old c&c La Folie bottles?

Ain't you heard?? They're coming back!

 

[JulianB1]

Hah, found a pic of that:

And an old whale tasting pic (Dec 2009):

What's the bottle with what looks like a handwritten paper label.

Also which CCB bottle is that? It's interesting how all kinds of old CCB bottles were rare/desired back in the day and now I don't think many people about any of them, and certainly not about anything that isn't a Hunahpu/Zhukov variant.

 

[Brew33]

This thread is hitting me in the feels.

Most of the ones I thought of have been mentioned.

Batch 1 Framboise for a Cure wit dat Sonambic base.

Barrel Aged Hi-Fi Rye

 

[buzzword]

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?

schwartzoid

 

[user 306349]

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?

09 was the best tasting one as of a few years ago with a lot of cherry notes still intact; the others were at that vinegar stage and less than desirable, IMO.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

Remember some of the old Jolly Pumpkin rarities?

Thinking particularly of the Perseguidor series and Lambicus Dexterius.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Remember some of the old Jolly Pumpkin rarities?

Thinking particularly of the Perseguidor series and Lambicus Dexterius.

Dem guidos...

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Of the Southampton name-checks so far, I haven't seen:

1) IRS (unless we all agree now that it sucked?)
2) Peconic Co. Reserve

 

[yeahnatenelson]

We are nearing page 4 and noone mentioned Bullfrog yet...



black cherry bomb
blue cheer
beekeeper


old toad barleywine (ok, was never a sought after whale but might be my favorite bullfrog beer.)

Hawbaker-era Bullfrog is peak Remembering Some Beers.