10 Great Beers You Will Never Taste
While newly-minted bourbon "connoisseurs" line up at liquor stores,
enter lotteries, or troll the black market hoping to get their hands on
that sweet, sweet Pappy Van Winkle, beer geeks only wish they had it so
easy. According to most reports, somewhere around 20,000-25,000 bottles
of Pappy Van Winkle are released to stores and bars across the U.S.
every single year.
(And I'm not even counting those desperate folks who insist on labeling
both the Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year and the 12 Year Old Special Reserve
as "Pappy." Sorry, they're not.) Go to the absolute best whiskey bar in
whatever town you live in, and it's almost a certainty you can buy a
finger or two of one of the Pappys for less than a day's pay. But for
some of the best and most coveted beers in the world, there are
miniscule bottle counts in the low hundreds that aren't even distributed
to every state in the union. Some aren't even released every single
year. Forget those uninformed writers that'll tell you about the
uber-rarity of Heady Topper, KBS, or even most Cantillons—you'll get to try those one day, I guarantee it—but these on the other hand...?
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