The Locals HINTS AND HAULS THREAD

Finally getting around to posting my half of my trade with @MCMASTERSANCHEZ

The Fall: Four Fathers Brewing: Sour Stout. Interesting.
Cone Crusher IPA: 18th St Brewery: Will be having this tonight
Thread the Needle DIPA: 18th StBrewery: Or maybe this one
Death By Coconut: Love this stuff
Alpha King: 3 Floyds: Always good
2 x Dark Lord: 3 Floyds: First time having my own bottle.
Backwoods Bastard 2014,15,16: Didn't get any of this yet this year and a mini vert is awesome.

Thanks a ton! Excited to try the new stuff out.

 

What year cake is that?

 

Would like to continue to bring joy during the holiday season and after the awesome box from @spartan3186 it's my turn to run an NTP Box. The rules:

The Locals “New Ticks” Parallel (NTP) Box

Every area of the country has a brewery that gets a ton of well-deserved hype, but doesn’t distribute out of state – or distribute at all, in some cases. There are also breweries that are putting out delicious brews that get little to no hype, but locals swear by their beer. This box will include beers from both types of breweries, hence “Parallel” – two horizontals, if you will.

Now, here’s the real twist – Among other criteria (listed below), the only way you are eligible to receive this box is if you’ve had 3 or fewer beers from the “Main Brewery” listed by the sender. If you’ve had more than 3, but they were all sample pours of an ounce or two, it is at the discretion of the sender if you qualify. This is the “New Ticks” portion of the box, the idea being to spread the love and get great beer into the hands of people who haven’t been lucky enough to try anything from a great brewery.

Origin - Kentucky
Main Brewery: Braxton Brewing

What’s in the Box?!??!
The NTP box is intentionally reasonably sized (6-10 beers max), and will include 4 parts:

1. Several offerings from the “Main Brewery”.

2. A couple offerings from an unannounced “Unheralded Local Brewery”.

3. Swag from at least one, if not both breweries.

4. A “Take a beer, Leave a beer” Box.

The “Take a beer, Leave a beer” box:
This box will include 3 cellarable beers, and is like that penny tray at your local gas station. As the NTP box arrives with each new recipient, they will have the option to take 1 (and only 1) beer to drink or cellar for future consumption – absolutely no trading or forwarding, however much you might want to. If the recipient takes a beer from this box, they must replace it with something worthy of the traveling box. These beers don't need to be local, just awesome.

Rules / How it Works:

• This traveling box is open to all Locals, as well as certified lurkers who have successfully participated in other major BIF rounds here on Beer Advocate. Recipient must not have received the NTP box previously.

• Sender announces their “Main Brewery” and sign ups remain open for a specified length of time. This brewery must not distribute out of state, and must be worthy of being the focus of the traveling box.

• Interested participants who meet the criteria (Be honest. No deleting UnTappd check-ins!) must message the sender, and once sign-ups have ended the sender selects a target at random.

• Sender will keep the “winning” participant secret, and ship within a reasonable amount of time. BIF-style hints encouraged.

• Once the box lands, the Recipient now becomes the next sender. They should add a local sticker/label/etc… to the inside of the box and reopen sign-ups for the next round when ready (3-4 weeks max).
• If at any time there are no interested sign-ups, or the exterior box is on its last legs, the current sender will ship back to the originator of the box (@RuckIt).

Sign up!
BM me with "NTP Box" in the title. Include your shipping address, shirt size, swag preference, and what (if anything) you've had from the "Main Brewery". If there are any "do-not-ship" dates, include that info too! I will close this down next Monday (1/2/17)

Cheers Locals #L4L

 

Seriously, everyone who qualifies needs to get in this one. Braxton makes solid stuff and a wide variety of styles. They're one of our best breweries in the Cincinnati area.

 

Next competition and first competition as a purple belt is at the end of February in Unterhaching Germany. Any good places to stop for beer in that area? I know it's Germany and any beer is worth trying but figured I'd ask anyways

 

If I hadn't just won one of our two Locals fantasy football leagues, and if I still wasn't working off my clown car box from @whyteboy003 in the last round, I'd be very tempted to go for this.

 

Good luck Shaun!

 

Correction 3 Floyds beer is Zombie Dust not Alpha King

 

Sounds like you just entered, right @Corriecrafts?

 

Good luck, Shaun!

 

Nope. Corrie and I have an understanding. Any boxes I get are being forwarded to Bag End.

 

Correction. I don't read good.

 

He's automatically entered in all my LIF or whatever I run in the year 2017 from his shenanigans in November

 

Don't make me come down there and kick your ass...

 

So... 12 Days of Locals drinking off their Inventory that they received from other Locals Day 4 -- I was thrilled that for today (during the Maryland Terps game) I was assigned a Terrapin beer...



I got one of these from @Littlelotte88 in person and one from @jdhowe as part of an inter-thread beer exchange. This beer is amazing and tastes exactly likes its name impies. And probably the biggest challenge yet for my yopener.

Thanks Erika and Josh!

 

Yum

 

Mike going all enforcer like. Love it!

 

It's all outta love Enforcer don't hurt nobody!!

 

Nice knife set, I have the same brand.

 

Good luck Shawn and my neighbor brought in the box for me. Thanks @MCMASTERSANCHEZ Can't wait to get home.