Full Cellar LIF - Creativity Required

Something similar to this has been done in the past. Not so much the rarity idea, but the Blind Beer BIF's (there were several) had the participants stripping labels and sending out beer to be reviewed blind. A great BIF that I enjoyed immensely.

 

Send all your beer to me BIF -

 

Too soon

 

Risky Business BIF.

All the participants must put "THERE IS BEER INSIDE THIS BOX" on the side of their packages and no devices to muffle the sound of liquid swishing inside the box (such as coins, rice, etc). Then the participants must convince fedex/ups to still ship the package saying along the lines of "that box was labelled for when I moved back in April" or what have you. 6 bottle minimum 24 maximum, all must be stacked horizontally in order to emphasize the sound of the sloshing and to increase the chance of breakage/leakage

 

Poor clarity here. By 'details' I mean the fact they were shipped to random addresses. You still have to go door-to-door in order to find your box.

 

Airline Baggage BIF

Instead of boxes and standard delivery services the participants use suitcases and buy airline tickets for them knowing only the closest airport to their target. Subsequently they mail the baggage claim tickets to whomever is running the BIF who attempts to properly distribute them to each of the targets. No carry-ons, 200 oz minimum and terrorist or shampoo themed swag...

 

This BIF is called Progressive Madness cures Total Insanity.

It requires geographically splitting the country into 10 quadrants. 10 participants will be chosen, each from a different quadrant.

It will be based on tallying the number of ISO's in the trade forum going forward for two weeks. At the end of two weeks the ISO beers will be listed in order of how many ISO posts each received

This list will then be cross referenced by the home locations of the persons who posted the ISO's.

The top 5 most requested beers that are ISO'ed most often by traders living the FURTHEST from the first BIF participant are what that person needs to send to his target. If he doesn't have one, some, or all of the beers, and cannot obrtain them locally, he must post an ISO for it/them and keep on until he has them.

He sends these beers to his target, and when the target receives them he must then do his research for two weeks on the trade forum, and do the same as first participant, gaining a list of 5 beers.

Along with the beers, each particpant must forward a printout of the calculations used to determine the choices. Also a shirt.

The fun begins when other BA's understand what is going on, and post ISO's designed to skew the results, and when the ISO posts of previous BIF participants become part of the ongoing statistics.

This BIF is open ended. It is foreseeable, in fact likely, that it will last for well over a year before all get beer. The other best attributes of it are its pointless complexity, and the extremely time consuming statistics gathering and difficult data mining it requires.

 

White Whale BIF

Each participant gets their whales approved by an approval panel for their acceptable level of whiteness. The organizer then randomly picks half of the participants, and tells them to refill empty wales bottles with some BMC goodness (or JD Blackbeerd). But does not tell the other half this is the case. Therefore 1/2 the participants get to drink their own walez, plus trick the other half into giving them theirs. And the other half get completely burned (or never find out because the refilled bottles just sit in the cellar and age) This will hopefully create a thread that gets over 100000 views and some ridiculous amount of replies, because we haven't had one of those on the new board...

I really hope I get to refill my bottle of 02.02.02 with shock top.....

 

BIFF BIF.

'nuff said

 

In light of the current economic climate I'll nominate the DIMINISHING RETURNS BIF.

Traditional BIF with 52 participants. The OP puts together a box of 52 12oz bottles or smaller and ships to the FARTHEST address from his current location.

Each subsequent BA who receives the box must drink 1 beer for each week the BIF has been in effect the week the box arrives - and then just 1 beer from the box per week for the remainder of the "BIF Year" until you run out. If you are the 7th person to receive a box you must consume 7 beers - 6 for the previous weeks + 1 for your own week - in that week (and must review each in that week) and then save the remaining 40 to drink, 1 per week, over the next 40 weeks.

After receiving the box, each subsquent BA must purchase a new set of bottles following the simple formula of
X Beer Received - 1. Thus, if you are the 1st participant you receive 52, drink 2 beers, and purchase 51 new bottles to send to the next target. The remaining 52 beers you've received stored to be consumed 1 per week. This has the added effect of potentially spoiling some beers as a box of 52 different IPA's would likely not hold up over the full 50+ weeks.

Each BA is required to research the entire list of available targets and select the target who is the FARTHEST from them geographically to ship to (and thus most expensive). Shipping must be completed by the Saturday in which you receive your box, all but guaranteeing the box spends sometime 'warehoused' somewhere.

EACH BA who is involved is responsible for reviewing each of the beers in their box in the week in which they consume it.

The final box, shipped in week 51, will target the OP and will contain a single 12oz bottle of beer. NO EXTRA'S ALLOWED. NO SWAG ALLOWED.

 

Shitty deal BIF (AKA no whammy, no whammy, no whammy.... STOP BIF):

Get 12+ people to enter
Send out to random target of choice in list, one box going at a time
First sender sends out 6 beers to first target
They turn around and send out 6, but 3 has to be the same ones that they received (pick 3 to keep). Do not drink any yet.
Dont post hauls until the next target confirms that they received the box- now able to drink the beers they received.

Heres the catch:
One of the bottles that you send is to be labels switched or a beer that was refilled with homebrew of their choice. Also able to pour out contents and refill a beer with something else.
Creativity points for making a shitty exchange (Bud heavy refilled in Zombie Dust, Chelada in a Cantillion?) You dont know what you have until your box is already gone.
Pics needed to be taken when you drink one of your 3 beers.
Put in a whale? Refill a whale with crap? You never know until its too late... how selfish are you with what you keep for bottles or pass over to the next?

Last person could get a box of shit beers or great beers, who know.

Bonus points or swag- good swag or bad swag.... Who wants Bud Bowl 96 coasters?

 

IP Amber Ale BIF (Aka The Amberlamps BIF)

This BIF is for in person only and is only for amber ales. 88 oz minimum, 220oz max.

 

I'm going to work on some ideas tonight, methinks...

 

When you're trying to think of ideas, try not to think about boobs.
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Come up with the absolute worst idea for a BIF imaginable. The more detailed, the more points you're going to get, so if you don't really know the rules of a BIF, it'd be a good idea to review some of the other ones going on below. Hilarious is a big plus. If you're going to go for gross, be warned that I don't laugh much at scatological humor so it'd better be brilliant.

In the event I can't decide, I'll look at the number of likes and I'll have my wife play tiebreaker.

LIF ends at noon (12pm) on Thursday the 26th, Pacific Time.

Optional rule (but appreciated). You or a buddy provide some trade feedback for me on the 'other site'. I won a LIF over there during LIF week, and I'd like to make sure that the other person knows I moved the creativity LIF idea forward since I promised I would.

Tell me this isn't the worst BIF idea ever!

 

It's very smart and a winning idea I think!

 

Homemade Bourbon Beer BIF - Shotgun style

The Rules:
- Fill a 64oz screw-top growler with 16oz of the cheapest bourbon available to you
- Fill remainder of growler with any beers you desire so as to make the tastiest concoction you think you can
- Add 1 tbsp of bakers yeast and 2 tbsp of granulated sugar, just to ensure that it's carbonated upon arrival

Points are awarded thusly (where n = the number of participants):
- The lowest priced bourbon receives n points, and each subsequently more expensive bourbon is awarded n-1, n-2, n-3... all the way down to 1 point
- 1 point is awarded for each beer incorporated (up to 50)
- 5 points are awarded to each person whose growler arrives intact
- 10 points are awarded to those who consume their growler in less than 1 minute, 5 points to those who do so in under 5 minutes, and 1 point to those who finish it in under 15 minutes
- 1 point is awarded (both for sender and receiver) for each day an uploaded review remains on BA of each "beer"
- 64-x (where x = the amount of liquid that arrives within the growler) points are awarded to the senders of damaged/leaky growlers, unless x=0

Targets are assigned randomly. Whoever has the most points (i.e. "winner") will be sent a 1l growler of each entrant's recipe.

 

Bodega-it-forward

Go down to your local bodega (feel free to replace with packie or other mildly racist nickname for a cornerstore) and pick up some beers. No craft beer allowed. The only requirement is that the cost of shipping exceed the cost of beer. Must post a picture of your tallboy/40oz haul.