Hill Farmstead

ann is the hardest to get, followed by mimosa. those both require whales.

the next tier would be stuff like juicy, flora, art, E, norma, maybe BoT. it will take some good rare stuff to get these bottles.

the rest are sort of shelf beers. they won't trade like your local shelf beers will but anyone who wanted to could be a lot of them and they are made with some regularity.

 

HF also makes many IPAs/DIPAs that you did not list. All are growler fill only.

 

if it makes a difference the 750ml growlers are really easy to ship

 

I agree with everything but the last part.

Keep in mind is that all of their bottles are only available at the brewery. So while they are on a "shelf" at the brewery, you are better off thinking of them as brewery only releases, rather than shelf beers. All their bottled beer is rotating to one degree or another, but most aren't available more than once or twice a year. Eidth is the only one available at the moment.

Most of the "others" (anna, florence, arthur, vera mae, edith, everett, twilight of the idols, clara) will trade $4$ for other good limited or not widely distributed/available beer.

 

i said "sort of" : )

 

I've traded for tons of Hill Farmstead beers, but I've never been able to land Ann or Mimosa in a trade. As said earlier, those beers require some pretty serious whales to nab. For the beers you listed, I've traded the following (or traded HF beers for the following):

Traded 1 bottle of Chocolate Rain for 2 bottles of E.
Traded 1 bottle of E. for 1 bottle of Hunahpu's
Traded 1 bottle of Birth of Tragedy for 1 bottle of Adam from the Wood (right after the release)
Traded 2 bottles of Hardywood Gingerbread Stout for 2 bottles of Juicy (before the Juicy hype train took off)
Traded 1 bottle of Armand'4 Zomer for 1 bottle of Biere de Norma

Stuff like Everett, Vera Mae, Arthur, Florence, Anna and Clara is much easier to trade for, as all have been released multiple times in bottles (except for Florence) and typically there is no bottle limit on those. They still aren't necessarily "easy" to get, but can be had for limited off-the-shelf releases (things like Cherry Rye) as opposed to brewery-only releases.

 

Everyone has been pretty spot on here. It really comes down to your trading partner. The beers needed to "land" them can vary wildly. Starrdogg's list of trades is a great example of that. As someone who traded E. on multiple occasions, both of the E. trades he made are ones I pdefinitely would have made (last year at least, when Hunaphu was tougher to get). The 2 Hardywood GBS for 2 Juicy must have been at that brief time when GBS was trading insanely high and before Juicy rode that Mimosa barrel aging up the trade value ladder (I really don't see that one ever happening again).

Your best bet if you're looking to just try some stuff is to seek out their "shelf beers." They're still seasonal and only available at the brewery, but they're going to be the easiest of your list to land.

 

Wow, kudos on that! I seriously had to read that like 3 times....glad to see it get done though!

 

Ha thanks, it was a pre trade negotiated before the beers were released. I actually even gave the guy an opportunity to back out of it when they dropped the limit on Juicy from 3 to 2, but he stuck with the deal we'd agreed to.