Stout BIF Round 4 Hints & Hauls

Im active! Still no clue who my sender is, but surely it has to be someone saying that their target hasn't been active. I have been traveling and fathering.

My target is has successfully finished his hoppy box and is getting some stouts early next week. Thinking of putting together a 3rd box, a 'welcome to the world, new baby' box ...

Cheers guys!

 

my 2nd hasn't even landed and I am starting a 3rd after seeing what's going on in here! Love it!

 

I have been warned by FedEx of impending porch strikes coming from the great state of Colorado. I believe it is being sent by a former Hoosier.

 

Boy let me tell ya, I got enough beavers we could get rid of the levees in New Orleans!! Chad, I would love to see your garage. I don't know how in the hell you produce this many different beers! I'm powering through this Blushing Monk waiting on my beavers to cool down. Shall we get started...



A nice set of permawants. Love that root beer and grapefruit.



These all sound amazing as I'm sure they are! Really looking forward to that beach blond and mango inferno.



I'm just staring at this pic in awe. My mouth is watering, I can not wait to try these! I think I'm gonna have to bring them up north with me to work and meet up with @valrxman to help me with these. I just wouldn't feel right if I didn't.



Last but not least, I included the 3 without labels to make you guys jealous. @bevoduz sent those out to quite a few of us shortly after Stouts III ended. Those are the Bevos bourbon county variants, the left is a 12' bcbs with cherries and vanilla. The next red wax is a 13' bcbs with cherries and vanilla, and the green wax is a 13' bcbs with coconut which was fucking amazing! Cat wait to dip into that supprication too.

Chad you are a genius. Like I've already told you, as soon as you get set up to accept donations for the start up I'll be first in line and I'm sure many of these BAers will be right there with me. Cheers to you sir, and I will be getting something out to you very soon.

 

I was always planning on sending a clean up box to @Dicers after ANTEAD is released this year, but I have no idea if Ill be in Europe the weekend they finally release it. They just dropped normal Morning Bell today in bottles without any notice. Not sure If Ill get up there before they are all gone. If I had seen the notice on Facebook a little bit earlier I could have sneaked out for the 3-4 hour round trip and gone unnoticed, but I didn't. Right now my 3rd box is just a couple KBS, since @Mipper took away Sunday Morning Stout bottles from my target.

 

I haven't started boxing my 2nd yet, but based on how much I have to put in it, I'm quite confident there will be a 3rd.

 

So, I just received the most lovely box from Michigan....KBS vertical, BBA and regular Plead the 5th, BBA and regular Dark Apparition, just for starters (thankfully my porch is a concrete landing, not a wooden porch...wouldn't have stood a chance). The only problem is I have no idea who to thank!

 

@jawas ill be firing off a six shipper of big beers to you Monday via UPS. Figured id get something going your direction while I wait to see what makes it back to me lol. It should hold you over well until I can get the others re-shipped.

 

You don't have to do anything of the same, I have plenty of beer. Im just annoyed it made it so close to my home before getting flagged. Do you get your cost of shipping back? Honestly, Im thinking of sending you a box if they don't refund your shipping cost.

 

I will accept any belgium goods as substitute

 

I can do that as well.

 

55 pounds of beer and beer related porch destruction is FINALLY on its way North! 326 ounces of stouts and 398 ounces of beer total. Average rating for the stouts is 94. 3 beers in the box have a perfect BA score and two of those are stouts.

Now I need to work on rebuilding my marriage since I didn't have a cellar going into this LOL!

 

Oh yeah, once I get the other boxes back and repack them I wont include what I'm sender in this box. Just wanted you to have something within the window. No idea about shipping cost, I'm not saying shit until the boxes are back in my possession hahah. And no need to worry about sending me anything. Whatever happened is on me lol

 

Well honestly, I went through my beer closet the other day, Im in no rush to receive anything, so don't worry about any thing. But yeah, its funny my UPS guy who I kinda know, we are both franchisees, looks at me out of the corner of his eye, and says "glassware", and takes the box that makes the slushing sound away.

My concern is how they flagged the boxes, Ive had stuff come from USPS from Belgium, Fedex, UPS, and DHL, no issues ever, even this morning my fedex guy dropped off some stuff and I was almost like, hey, were you working yesterday, but I didn't.

 

The workers don't care and if you have a consistent guy tip him at Christmas or even better find out his birthday

 

So, I owe some pron in here... @rspauldi decimated my porch with 60 lbs of Texas goodness. Well done, man. Without further adieu:

First the non-beer:

Texas Firecrackers - Eating these right now, yum
Texas Spicy Beer Fries - Look tasty
Beaver Nuggets - Look delicious! And like they should have come from @bevoduz
Saint Arnold's Root Beer - Love trying new root beers, looking forward to this one, but I'll have to wait until the wife can share with me!

Then the tits:

Jester King Provenance - Awesome looking glass!
Buffalo Bayou - Love the saying on the back, "Drown ideology in beer" ...and I also really like mason jar glasses, I use a Jameson one at work all day long for water)

Then the non-stouts:

Real Ale 4 Squared - New tick! I LOVE new ticks!
Karbach Weisse Versa - See above
Hops and Grains Brewery The One They Call Zoe - See above
Deep Ellum Oak Cliff Coffee Ale - See above
Four Corners Block Party Porter - See above
Real Ale Lost Gold - See above
Saint Arnold's Icon (Blue, Rye IPA) - See above, I had the green from the Icon series and enjoyed that one, St A is doing good things even outside the Dviine/Bishop's Barrel stuff
Jester King Oi, Oi - Mmmmm Jester King. And a new one to me!
Jester King Biere de Miel - See above, I love this label so I've wanted this one more than most but once it wasn't 'new' I figured it was out of reach
Jester King Provenance (Tangerines & Clementines) - See above. I got to try the Lemon & Lime when in TX last year, and have a bottle of the Orange & Grapefruit, so clearly Russ is a mind reader and knew this is the one I needed (and #properbeer for the glass)
Karbach Hell-Fighter - Love imperial porters, and I've heard great things about Karbach but haven't tried anything of theirs yet
Karbach Bourbon Barrel Hell-Fighter - And I get to do the BA/non-BA side-by-side!

And the stouts:

La Cumbre Malpais - Loved the hoppy La Cumbre I've had, looking forward to their stout
Real Ale Strawberry Milk Stout - Sure I love chocolate milk, everyone does, but I also love strawberry milk.
TWO Saint Arnold's Divine Reserve 15 - Really looking forward to this one I've heard such good things, and one to lay down too!
Avery The Czar - Love gold foil Avery beers
Deep Ellum Darkest Hour - I've heard good things, looking forward to it
Armadillo Quakertown Stout - I've seen this one a few times now and looking forward to trying it!
Clown Shoes The Good, The Bad, The Unidragon - Texas-only Clown Shoes stout? Yes please!
Buffalo Bayou Lenin's Revenge - I really enjoyed their gingerbread stout, and that isn't even my favorite adjunct by a mile, looking forward to trying a stout of theirs without adjunct (and #properbeer for the glass!)
Buffalo Bayou Black Raz - See above, oh, and chocolate raspberry sounds phenomenal.
Southern Star Black Crack - So frickin good.
Southern Star Buried Hatchet - The base of Black Crack, I did this side-by-side last fall by myself, looking forward to opening these two with someone else this time
Odell Lugene - One of the last 'shelf' Odells for me to try, and the one I've looked forward to most all along
Community Legion - Loved the Community Mosaic, and I've seen this one a lot lately, looking forward to it!
Community Barrel Aged Legion - See above. ANOTHER BA/non-BA side-by-side!
Prairie Bible Belt - I like this significantly better than Bomb! Can't get enough.

And finally, the family shot:


I am 100% convinced that @rspauldi is a mind reader. Besides hitting a ton of Wants, he nailed a TON of "should be Wants", and made this haul a total slam dunk with things like a 2nd Divine 15 to lay down, re-upping me on Bible Belt, multiple side-by-sides, and finishing off the Provenance set for me! Clearly he not only spent some time with my Wants, but he's been stalking me for months.

Cheers!

 

We do, I get a lot of stuff from Fedex and UPS, I have helped them unload stuff from their trucks to my garage, even when my last box of belgium arrived, I took it off the mail truck for my mail lady, she was like, yeah I wasn't sure how I was getting these off. I have gotten a few boxes, soaked with broken beers, or wet bottoms delivered.

The thing is, we get cleaning chemicals delivered via fedex, so the sound of liquid shouldn't have thrown them off? Once it said out for delivery, normally its in the clear, but this time, said out for delivery than flagged.

Again Im more concerned about the cash @PG2G spent on shipment, that didn't get shipped.

 

Those Beaver Nuggets, are F@#king good. A couple came over the other night we all agreed, we wanted a bowl of them with milk. My wife loved the beer fries.

 

Hopefully I find out more once the boxes are back. I'm just chalking it up to my own negligence. So yeah, don't worry about me

In the end, the shipping costs are negligible compared to the costs of the contents (especially if its filled with Bruery beers :O). If most of the package makes it back to me in one piece I'll be skipping for joy lol

 

I definitely need to do this.