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

[jmgrub]

I get nostalgic for early Crooked Stave (Batch 1, Persica b1, Waelzblood, etc), especially given what a money grab it has turned into the last few years. Haven't gone near a CS beer in 2 years.

I also fondly recall when people actually gave a **** about Avery sours. Those were the days in the old Avery Alley.

Not a whale (or a sour), but Momi Hiwa may be one of my favorite beers ever. DenverBeerDrinker sent me a few when it came out.

 

[DenverBeerDrinker]

I get nostalgic for early Crooked Stave (Batch 1, Persica b1, Waelzblood, etc), especially given what a money grab it has turned into the last few years. Haven't gone near a CS beer in 2 years.

I also fondly recall when people actually gave a **** about Avery sours. Those were the days in the old Avery Alley.

Come down. I'll open a few older ones

 

[Dunt1]

Those were the days.

Remember when Dunt was on the White Whale Committee?

Lololololol

 

[Dunt1]

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.

Opened up a bottle of that at the first Stoutfest. Absolutely terrible.

 

[user 306349]

found some pics from random shares a few years ago with some of the beers mentioned in this thread...

pre or post DeGarde anniversary in 2015:

SHBRL was crazy good, straight cheese and jam. those old CS bottles were phenomenal as well; makes me wonder how the original 750ml Petite Sours are doing. The FB and Green Man Snozzberry craze was in full swing, but I thought they were both kind of lackluster.

bday party in Vegas 2014:

not pictured was a 750ml Sanctification that was out of this world. Brute blew my mind. I met gregkoko that night, thanks for bringing the 09 bomber!

 

[gregkoko]

found some pics from random shares a few years ago with some of the beers mentioned in this thread...

pre or post DeGarde anniversary in 2015:

SHBRL was crazy good, straight cheese and jam. those old CS bottles were phenomenal as well; makes me wonder how the original 750ml Petite Sours are doing. The FB and Green Man Snozzberry craze was in full swing, but I thought they were both kind of lackluster.

bday party in Vegas 2014:

not pictured was a 750ml Sanctification that was out of this world. Brute blew my mind. I met gregkoko that night, thanks for bringing the 09 bomber!

Was a hell of a night! Still can't believe how long it took me to check into that ******* hotel

 

[BadJustin]

Ft Brute

ISO Anus Lambic

 

[mymrnngjckt]

JD Blackbeerd

PSA: The audience for this clever post may be nonexistent

 

[stakem1]

JD Blackbeerd

PSA: The audience for this clever post may be nonexistent

ISO JD Blackbeerd

 

[mymrnngjckt]

Internetting is hard

 

[DenverBeerDrinker]

SHBRL was crazy good, straight cheese and jam. those old CS bottles were phenomenal as well; makes me wonder how the original 750ml Petite Sours are doing.

Still have a couple of the CS Batch 1. Drink one every so often and it's still great. Last Petite Sour 750ml I had was Blackberry and opened it 2 years ago. Still pretty tasty but certainly the funk took over (not a bad thing) and lost a lot of the fruit. Last year I did a vertical of the first 4 Persica. The Persica b1 was fantastic. Best of the bunch and still had more fruit then the later batches. It was a blind tasting with 8 people and not one guessed that was b1.

 

[user 305778]

JD Blackbeerd

PSA: The audience for this clever post may be nonexistent

Even though this is a repeat, I'm pretty sure this is the perfect audience for this post. I imagine most people here know exactly what you are referring to.

 

[mymrnngjckt]

Even though this is a repeat, I'm pretty sure this is the perfect audience for this post. I imagine most people here know exactly what you are referring to.

I was in this BIF back in the day. I was so excited I wasn't the one who got the JD Blackbeerd. I wish the thread for this BIF was still around. So much amazing.

 

[2plums4one]

b1 or 2 L'Brett Doir was pretty awesome from what I recall

 

[JulianB1]

I was in this BIF back in the day. I was so excited I wasn't the one who got the JD Blackbeerd. I wish the thread for this BIF was still around. So much amazing.

Here's a stroll down memory lane for you:

http://biergotter.org/bif/whitewhale4.html

Interestingly enough, looks like two different guys sent out JD Blackbeerd, although one was in a box that also had a KtG which I suppose would have counted as its whale at the time. It would be interesting to "rank" the boxes in terms of how desirable they'd be now, as opposed to then. The ones that got ranked the highest were pretty killer obviously, but I'd guess these days the boxes with rare lambic would rank a lot higher (kinda funny to see the box with Blauw and Crianza not even crack the top 4).

 

[mymrnngjckt]

Here's a stroll down memory lane for you:

http://biergotter.org/bif/whitewhale4.html

Interestingly enough, looks like two different guys sent out JD Blackbeerd, although one was in a box that also had a KtG which I suppose would have counted as its whale at the time. It would be interesting to "rank" the boxes in terms of how desirable they'd be now, as opposed to then. The ones that got ranked the highest were pretty killer obviously, but I'd guess these days the boxes with rare lambic would rank a lot higher (kinda funny to see the box with Blauw and Crianza not even crack the top 4).

I'd be down to rank these. Maybe do a top 5? The interesting part is that some of these hauls may seem awful now but at the time, were the tits.

I received a Millennium Gueuze so I have no complaints.

 

[DenverBeerDrinker]

b1 or 2 L'Brett Doir was pretty awesome from what I recall

Think I still have a couple of those

 

[flexabull]

I was in this BIF back in the day. I was so excited I wasn't the one who got the JD Blackbeerd. I wish the thread for this BIF was still around. So much amazing.

Somebody has screen caps of that thread. I remember seeing it a few years ago.

 

[JulianB1]

Somebody has screen caps of that thread. I remember seeing it a few years ago.

I've been wanting to find these badly for a while now. As I mentioned earlier, at one point Overlord thought he had them but then couldn't find them on his computers.

 

[gregkoko]

That's the original batch of Guava Grove... I don't think it was very rare, I got it in some beer of the month club box. It also wasn't very good.

The original batch of Guava Grove was FANTASTIC and pretty limited. The beer didn't come out as intended and then they did it a second time trying to repeat their mistake and it was garbage . This was also when they released Guava Groove which was the beer they first intended to make.

 

[stupac2]

Somebody has screen caps of that thread. I remember seeing it a few years ago.

I thought that Overlord made a google drive folder with the PDFs in them, or something, but can't find it. It's actually possible I have them on my work computer, I know I have some dumb beer-related PDFs on there.

 

[Thevicster]

12 pages, no mention of KtG?

 

[tikk]

12 pages, no mention of KtG?

Looks like it was mentioned 4x

https://www.talkbeer.com/community/search/18842032/?q=Ktg&t=post&o=relevance&c[thread]=41403

 

[matedog]

Do people still give a **** about Veritas releases? The last ones I remember people getting remotely geeked on were Cable Car Kriek-esque V012 and Yellow Bus-ish V015.

Probably another case of the industry catching up and in some cases surpassing a once trailblazing brewer. I've seen some of the recent releases and thought, "why bother? I can get plenty of equal or close to equal quality AWAs for a lot less money and effort." I think Cable Car still has a lot of clout due to its scarcity. Though now it's getting club distro, so who knows?

 

[matedog]

Whoa. Had no idea.

Me neither. Unpasteurized too!
https://www.porchdrinking.com/artic...ium-wood-aged-sour-programs-20th-anniversary/

 

[stakem1]

Probably not whales to anyone but me, but this discussion in conjunction with the Bruery’s 10th anniversary has made up my mind to drink 1 of each of these today/tomorrow.

Just cracked open the red wax brandy and its everything I hoped it would be.

 

[matedog]

12 pages, no mention of KtG?

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[skrip]

Me neither. Unpasteurized too!
https://www.porchdrinking.com/artic...ium-wood-aged-sour-programs-20th-anniversary/

thats good to hear!!

 

[JCastle1]

The original batch of Guava Grove was FANTASTIC and pretty limited. The beer didn't come out as intended and then they did it a second time trying to repeat their mistake and it was garbage . This was also when they released Guava Groove which was the beer they first intended to make.

You're right, turns out I have a ****** memory. Went back to my old reviews and I loved it in 2011 (I assume batch 1) and thought it was meh in 2013 (beer of the month batch).

 

[BadJustin]

Me neither. Unpasteurized too!
https://www.porchdrinking.com/artic...ium-wood-aged-sour-programs-20th-anniversary/

Interest, piqued.