The Locals HINTS AND HAULS THREAD

Nah got a buddy with me...We had an indoor soccer match tonight have to rehydrate right? This is part of our cool down

 

This looks so damn awesome! Stupid ORD still having radar problems, my flight got cancelled. But it's given me some time to finally post my ****, sorry for the delay fellas. Anyway, I think Tim made it his personal mission to get me to try every available Jester King beer possible. His box killed it and I'm definitely gonna be crushing some of these beers tomorrow. So without further adieu:

The Jester King madness (Have heard of a few of these but excited to try them all!) And how f*cking awesome are these labels? I'm a sucker for a great beer label, it makes my IG posts look so nice


El Cedro
Le Petite Prince
Wytchmaker
Nobel King
Das Wunderkind!
Provenance (I think the Orange and Grapefruit)
La Vie En Rose
Biere de Miel
Snorkle

Other big boys


The Lone Pint - Yellow Rose (99 rating, sounds amazing)
Texian - Charlie Foxtrot (Sounds like a good Berliner Weiss, a style I'm very fond of)
Armadillo Ale Works - Brunch Money (So damn curious about this beer)
Saint Arnold - Pumpkinator / 20th Anniversary (Both of these sound awesome!)

And last but not least


Santa Fe Brewing - Imperial Java (This will be my breakfast beer tomorrow)
Prairie - Pirate Bomb (Obviously the beer I'm most excited for!!!)
Martin House - Pretzel Stout (Mmmm)

Another great box with so much awesome local goodness. Thanks again Tim, great box!

Oh, and all at once including a coozy, some Chipotle Salsa that will probably be way too spicy for my wimpy taste buds an awesome JK snifter and a bar of chocolate with pepper and lime zest

 

I don't want, I NEED that Coffee Bollocks. Where do I get it?

Jester Mary and Joseph. Just.... wow.

 

Find the dude in the leather chaps...wait you can't find him he finds you...

 

Fair enough... @Mikexw what do I have to send you for Coffee Bollocks, or Dog's Bollocks, or both?


By the way, I have no idea if this beer is good, bad, shelf turd, rarer than Westvleteren or more expensive than Utopias. I want it because it's the only beer I've ever seen (besides Hair of the Dog) with a bulldog on the label, and I want one so I can toast my old buddy on the anniversary of his passing.

 

Glad you enjoyed it! Love the photos too. I don't think that salsa was too hot when I tried it, but it's been a while. It's one of my favorites I've had though. Who knew coffee in salsa would taste so good?

Cheers!

Edit: Oh and to prepare you, that Charlie Foxtrot is pretty damn sour. I loved it though, so I hope you enjoy it as well.

 

If you cannot track one down between now and then the bottle @Mikexw sent me is yours...If you can track one down between now and then mine will be in the cellar to toast virtually along with you on August 13, 2015

 

I wouldn't consider taking your bottle, that one is yours; but I appreciate the offer. And I really appreciate that you remember (or at least took the trouble to find) the date.

 

To further the pR0n tonight - my porch just got absolutely demolished by a targeted bomb from Ohio. @kgncfl absolutely killed it. I mean. He totally demolished it....



Could not have asked for a better selection of Midwestern beer-love.

1x Ithaca Flower Power
1x Jackie O Brew Kettle Oktoberfest
2x Jackie O BBA Dark Apparition
1x Jackie O Dark Apparition
1x BBA Black Maple
1x Siberian Night
1x Three Floyds Dark Mullet
1x Rivertowne Oktoberfest
1x Revolution Oktoberfest
1x Hoppin Frog Café Boris
1x Jackie O Oil of Aphrodite
1x Saugatuck Neapolitan
1x Founders Dark Penance
1x Three Floyds War Mullet
1x MOA
1x Hoppin Frog Boris the Destroyer
1x Sweetwater 420
1x Thirsty Dog Siberian Night BBA
1x Jackie O Paw Paw Wheat
1x Fat Heads Spooky Tooth
1x Bell's Java Stout






I also got awesome Bell's glassware and one full bag of Ballreich's Smokey Sweet Mesquite Potato Sticks!!

(okay... fine, I got two bags of the potato sticks. One didn't make it alive for the picture.)


I waste no time gentlemen....








Can't thank you enough @kgncfl - you sent me some permawants, absolute wants and all-in-all one of the best boxes I've received. THANK YOU! If you ever need some NW love... you know what to do.

Cheers!

 

A lot of great stuff in that box however no-one is surprised coming from @kgncfl however that Black Maple is outrageous. Cheers!

 

I'm with you -- I was totally exhausted last night -- went to dinner with my wife and got one "starter" beer, then basically stuck to water last night and went to sleep early. Just reading people's checkins was exhausting.

 

I will try and grab more in the next week or two and will let you know -- I had one each of their Dogs Bollocks, Coffee Bollocks, and Part II in stock; I sent them in three different directions. This is another brewery that doesn't distribute far at all and has ridiculously tight distribution (but a nice little tasting room). I think they also have a saison in bottles.

Between this and Plan Bee, I guess I'm starting to understand why we call this "Locals" -- I don't have many walez close by, but definitely can get good stuff.

 

Yeah if you put a handful of Plan Bee bottles in the box you send me some Bollocks, it would not go unrewarded.

 

That's a great TX box. I see a few things my target is getting as well.

 

I'm off to work for the next 8-10 hours but hope this status changes to 'on truck for delivery' soon:

 

I drank everything last night... literally... everything.... and I'm still alive... for now.... pics to come later of the bottle share carnage, whenever I stumble out of bed...wife & baby are back home tonight so it'll be back to reality for me ...

 

Just gonna make a last minute run to try to add something to my package. Should ship out Monday, if not I will update then.

 

There are definitely some bottles / cans missing here (cuz I know we had Furious, Anti-Hero, and Daisy Cutter too...) but this is the carnage.... what bothers me the most is that there's still 4-6 oz in some of these bottles, leftovers anyone?

 

Ridiculous! And you better finish those 4-6ozs before the beer gods anger! Wish I had more ba's closer to do this with.

 

How does a BA who went to HF yesterday carve a pumpkin?

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