Christmas Beer Gifts? Show Them!

I'll try and get some pictures up. Got about a case of bourbon county variants, snifter glasses, half yard ale glass with wooden stand, growler of Two Brothers North Wind Stout, gift card to Binny's and a Gift card to Ritebrew.com. Pretty much all of my gifts were beer related.

 

Gifted a good friend of mine and drinking buddy that recently moved away the following:

6x Madtree PsycHOPathy
2x Founders Harvest Ales
1x Three Floyds Broo Doo (Meant to share it... but couldn't let it get any older, and no, i haven't even had it myself! That's what good friends are for, right?)
1x 12.13.13 Enjoy By (I know, "expired"... but really, this stuff is great even after the date)

2x Madtree Pint glasses
1x Delirium Tremens Glass
1x Founders Pint glass
1x Madtree PsycHOPathy t-shirt
...And a Madtree gift card
And.... this (because she likes elephants):

 

My in-laws gave me money for more home brewing supplies. Love them!

 

Founders gift card and reds rye, thanks mom-in-law!!

 

In addition to the glasses and Narragansett clock I mentioned before, I also got a Nook, on which I subscribed to BA magazine, so I suppose that counts.

 

A little light reading from my wife for Christmas afternoon. I ignored the suggestions in the book on the left and just had my last Allagash Merveilleux instead.

 

..And while I didn't receive any beer this year for Christmas, I did buy myself some fancy new toys This in addition to yeast starters, and I should be producing some great stuff shortly

 

This is Libbey's Craft Brews glass set - got the same one last year from my wife; this one was courtesy of my brother-in-law and his wife - now I can drink twice as much!!! lol

 

I have the same set. =) Nice

 

Kept hinting to the gf I wanted a homebrew kit and got this book and this kit!!! So excited!

 

Much needed 3rd carboy, different color caps, spring loaded racking tube, and a case of bottles.

 

That Vermont road map is for a trip to Hill Farmstead on Friday. The rest all came under the tree today. Excited about it all! I already drank the barley wine, (and I bought a four pack of the coffee a few days ago, unaware I'd be getting some in my Christmas haul). I personally preferred the BCBBW to Sucaba, which had a year of age on it at this point. I had my dad set up a blind tasting between the two. Flavor was a bit more in depth on the BCBBW, and Sucaba had a more pronounced booziness to it. So yes, BCBBW won out.

 

My amazing wife surprised me with a new beer cooler, others added some BCBBW and a bottle of MassWhole. Also received a note from the parents letting me know that they signed me up for the Night Shift Barrel Society. All in all, a very hoppy Christmas!

Now, to put beer stickers on the Yeti or not?

 

Have fun there. HF is a great experience. Feel free to grab a bottle of Anna, Earl or Genealogy and send it to little ole Rhode Island!!

 

I swear to God I've already pre-traded most of my eventual haul, haha. I figured you'd be after a growler of Double Galaxy.

 

got that one too

 

That Fraoch Vintage is the real freaking deal man. There is seldom a day I don't wish I was pouring me some of that!

 

Welcome to the world of homebrewing It took me 61 gallons to realize, one of the most important things (water profile, fermentation temp control, etc...aside) to not overlook in future brews is under-pitching the yeasties. Surely you'll be addicted after this kit, so invest in some software like BeerSmith, or use the free sites out there, and always do a yeast starter. All of my good beers were my session ales, and all of my bad ones were over 5%.

Also, love this book! I've had a PDF for a while, but just bought the book on Amazon because of this post... had been intending on buying it for a while, books are much better. Cheers to brewing!

 

Yes but only because you chose to not get a white one.