First off, Huge thanks to @Doogflaggat for this sweet box! Everything is a new tick for me so that's awesome. First the swag. Troegs Perpetual IPA T-shirt, Pizza boy tulip or wine glass, Troegs Weizen glass Next the small ones. The crowlers and growler. Group Shot. From left to right. Pizza boy tulip or wine glass Jackie O pub's-Dark Apparition Troegs-Blizzard of Hops (Centenial, Galaxy, Chinook, El dorado) Troegs-Java Head Stout (Oatmeal stout w/ cold steeped coffee) Troegs-Scratch beer series impending descent (Imperial stout with 119 IBU's) holy shit Troegs-Scratch beer series #215 IPA (Mosiac, Simcoe) usually love both these hops together Troegs-Perpetual IPA Pizza Boy-Haters Tears (Gose) sounds good enough to me Pizza Boy-Sunnyside Up (Imperial Stout w/ coffee) heard good things about this one Pizza Boy-Eternal Sunshine w/ lemons (Wild ale w/lemons) Hell yeah! Pizza Boy-Uber Murren (Citra, Armarillo dry hopped IIPA) west coast style 32 oz growler- Unfortunately leaked on to the paper saying what it was so I don't know whats in it. Troegs-Weizen glass Troegs-Perpetual IPA shirt Thanks @Doogflaggat! I've got some serious drinking to do. Luckily I will have some help with that.
Picked my box up earlier today. Been a tough day at work awaiting the surprise, but I needed a carrot to get everything done. Headed home now. Can't wait to see what's inside. Pics may have to wait until later tonight or tomorrow as witch's hat has a home brew competition tonight that I entered.
My #VBS for tonight thanks to @hardysf Gonzo's Biggdogg Vanilla Porter this is a really good beer as you can actually taste the vanilla in it not like a couple of locals they call vanilla porters but you never taste the vanilla.
Enjoy, @Steban! Sorry the growler leaked it's Tired Hands - HopHands. I hope it's somewhat carbed for you. They don't fill crowlers of Tired Hands beers where I got it unfortunately.
No worries Andy. It looks like it didn't loose much volume if any. I'll drink it soon, so I'm sure it will be fine.
Yeah it's pretty fruitfull. I'm sure i'll be sending quite a few boxes out with Professor Black in them once the cans start rolling out. Oh and Live Oak Hefeweizen cans are about a month away as well.
#VBS for the Oaked Mosaic from @pnelting . Just what the doctor ordered after a long day. Probably prefer the regular one better, but this one was still really good.
Got home after from another 14hr day to find a stack of boxes at my door. Only one had beer in it, the rest xmas gifts. I have to say though the big ass styrofoam box from a pharmacy in Ohio made me think "is my Viagra here". Nope but I got a hard on when I opened the box. Capital T thank you to @Eziel and the NYE lif. Love me some Jackie o's and the wicked weed I can't wait to try (but I should give it some time for the Brett to do its thing).
Finally got around to opening my box from @mpdavis Box around safely and was greeted to some awesome swag right on the top. 2 t-shirts! One from Toppling Goliath (above is the back) and Surly! Koozie for Todd the Axeman - The one can I had was AWESOME! Surly coasters and patch. Awesome way to start the box. Next was the 12 shipper. Very happy for this because I've been meaning to get some of these. Will keep for round 3! First, the smaller can/bottle beers. Modern Times Black House - Want! My first Modern Times. Will wait until the weather isn't 50 or 60 degress here in NJ! Surly Abrasive Ale - Major Want! Looking forward to this! Surly OverRated - Want. Thanks for 2! Will give one to my brother...who started my whole craft beer journey. SN Celebration - Haven't had this yet and love all their brews. Onto the bigger bottles! Toppling Goliath Pompeii X2 - Should have been a want! Mosaic?! Yes, looking forward to this! TG Smoove Opferator - Another should have been a want. Thanks for helping me expand beyond IPA/DIPA! TG PseudoSue - PermaWant. The only beer I've had in the box but when I had it, it was just one 12oz bottle. Can't wait to revisit! Surly Darkness - Should have been a major want!! Been having darker beers this winter. Will really enjoy my 1st Darkness! Advice...Wait? Drink ASAP? TG Rover Truck - Another should have been a want. Will wait for colder weather to enjoy! TG Light Speed - Don't know how I didn't have this as a want. Can't wait! Kill shot THANK YOU very much Mike! For your first BIF, you killed it! Nearly all new ticks, plenty of wants and some should have been wants. You matched my request for a good majority IPA/DIPA with trying other styles! Cheers!
Firstly, nice haul @Bristopher89! Secondly, @MTKATL if you ever find yourself with an overabundance of honey I'd happily send you a shipping label for a bucket's worth! I made a batch of mead about 2 years ago and it's now been ready to get bottled for a couple months, and I really want to make some more.
I definitely don't follow hints but I do have Fedex notifications & haven't seen anything on there so hopefully the box is coming UPS from my anonymous sender **Edit....if Fedex tracking is correct (which is a big IF this time of year) then my target will have his box tomorrow
