The Locals HINTS AND HAULS THREAD

AA Round
Target - Although I have yet to figure what I am going to send, I fully intend in staying local with your box. This may include some breweries that you have heard of and some that you have not. A general question out to the group, where should I draw the limit on the number of growlers/howlers that I should send, if I am so inclined to do so?

 

Sounds good. If I don't hear back in a few days I'll let you know. I'm hoping it doesn't though, since they owe me for a #pickitupformebro so I'm hoping they can just take the gose out of what they owe me

 

Last I knew, as of Sunday they were out of the Fou Foune but did have multiple others available. I'm not sure if they are just new, or not yet known to the 'beer geeks' but it's hard to fathom Cantillon sitting around a while especially at some good pricing.

 

The Loons at Aria are actually pretty damn reasonable with the lone exception of Mamouche (no idea why that's like $15 more other than just for the suckers) but Gueuze for $33 and Fou for $44 are both quite reasonable.

 

Exactly. I mean, that pricing is offensive as hell when I was just paying $14 for Fou Foune and $9 for Gueuze. But I know in the US, especially at bars, those prices are actually quite reasonable.

 

Iso: $14 Fou Foune FT: 17 US Dollars

keep the change

 

I would pay $44 in a heartbeat to try Fou.

Along these pricing lines, a friend of mine was in Portland and went to Hair of the Dog. He actually bought and consumed Dave. He is unemployed.

 

All you gotta do is show up at the brewery. I mean, the airfare is a little expensive

 

Is Dave still $2k?

 

$1500

 

Well, at least its on sale!

 

25% off! He'd be an idiot NOT to buy it.

 

A little late to the party, but I want to jump on the cake train too too!
After @JNForsyth, @PassMeAZima, and @Clarkson are taken care of, I'd love to set up a trade for some of that sweet, spicy, delicious sauce... I was going to hit up the ISOs but want to let the clamor die down just a bit first.

 

No limit on that for me, if the best beer for the job only comes in a growler, then that works for me! (Especially if it's DRIPA or BA BW)

 

That's it, I'm moving to Belgium.

 

You just want to have multiple check-ins!!! I'm on to you!

 

There are a lot of reasons to not move to Belgium, but beer certainly isn't one of them. Now if they could only figure out how to use hops... Their are a number of breweries in Belgium that are starting to use this new fangled invention called hops in higher quantities... but its pretty obvious they haven't figured it out yet. Most of the hoppy stuff they have is pretty clumsy.

Edit: More reasons to move to Belgium: Belgian waffles, which are ridiculously good, and Belgian frites (though we found the frites to be better in Amsterdam than in Belgium, which sounds craycray).

 

Was just about to post this thing morning, so add me to that train.

 

I'm hopeful we will see cake this year, but no word yet. I refuse to go overpay in the viper pit. It's an excellent beer, but this is getting out of hand.