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What proves to be the hardest beer for you to hunt down? What was the best tasting rare beer? What was the most surprising rare beer (good or bad)? What's your favorite daily drinker? If you could fill your cellar with one beer, what would it be? I suppose there are many who could respond to this. GrumpyOldTroll callmemickey etc. Click to expand...

So I'm bad at the Internet and just noticed the original post. I'll have to read through over lunch, but thought I'd start at the beginning:1. This is really difficult to say. Most of the "whale tastings" that I've been part of have been group efforts to acquire a lot of the bottles. I've also been extremely fortunate to have very generous friends and traders. In terms of what I haven't had but would like, I'd say De La Senne Crianza. Not sure it'll really even be that great anymore, but I absolutely loved Wadesda #1, love De La Senne, and love Cantillon, so I'd really like to find it some day. Problem is not many people care about it and I've never even located one, let alone been close to landing it.2. For me, Cantillon Loerik, hands down.3. Good: Veritas 005. I don't normally care that much for Lost Abbey sours. This one actually was crazy good.Bad: Cantillon Feestbier. Fresh gooseberries are one of my favorite fruits. I was imaging those mixed with Cantillon lambic. Sounds crazy good. The beer itself? Ugh.4. Commercial: Stillwater Classique. Great session saison. jbuddle knows what I'm talking about! Since I frequently buy out all the Classique at stores around me and somehow haven't learned to special order it by the case, I sometimes have to go elsewhere. Others that I drink a bunch of but not as much as Classique due to ABV, cost, availability, etc. are Saison Dupont (draft or 330mL brown bottles only; an amazing experience), Rodenbach Red (wish Grand Cru came in six packs as well), and Sofie. When I go on a hop binge, it's usually with Daisy Cutter / Akari Shogun (Half Acre, please make this year round), Anti Hero, or Zombie Dust.Otherwise, I drink a ton of homebrew. I'm obsessive. I'd like to open a small "farmhouse" brewery in a few years, and to do that I(wife would love that word choice) to try every saison strain, Brett strain, saison / Brett blend, etc. Then each with bacteria. Then at different fermentation temperatures. Then each with some local wild yeast. All of this experimentation means downing a lot of homebrew. Good thing I generally keep them 5% or less5. If we're going with readily available, I'll say 3F Oude Geuze. If we're going with rare, I'll say Don Q. That's the one fruit lambic that has really, really wowed me above and beyond others, whereas the gap between Loerik and other great gueuzes isn't quite as big.