Rookie BIF Round 2 Hints and Hauls Thread

TG needs more distro. I was stoked to see some PSue DDH bombers pop up recently but they were from April. Fresh Psue DDH are as good or better than the king imo but having it sit around for 6 months is criminal.

 

Got a DDH bomber some time back from a guy in Chicago distro area and was awesome

 

Has everyone checked their mail today? I haven't.

 

I checked my mail; disappoints.

UPS came to work: disappoints.

Fedex: c'mon now!

 

haha that's my whole morning at work..oohhh UPS-dammit, ohhh FedEx dammit, cmon USPS-dammit lol

 

Box arrived today from @beertunes and they are all new beers for me. Thanks! I'll probably dig into a few this weekend

 

I suggest drinking the Bale Breaker standard beers in the following order: Leota Mae, F41, Top Cutter, Bottom Cutter. It kinda works you through their line-up. Plus, that is two different versions of F2F, check the bottoms.

 

Nice @beertunes and that schwag

 

There was also a crowler label for a beer that's getting canned on Monday. The crowlers weren't ready when I sent that a couple days ago, or I woulda sent one.

 

Nice @beertunes , are those the fresh hop ones from bale breaker?

 

No, but the Fremont F2Fs are, along with the Kulshan.

 

That's an excellent box, @beertunes. I like the 12x12 idea since it can be kind of tough to find small cans these days around here.

 

Man... does everyone wet hop up there?

 

Without getting into the whole "Fresh hop vs Wet hop" argument, yeah, there's about a 6-8 week window where the vast majority of breweries in WA and OR put out at least one. @sharpski used to keep track every year, but a few years ago it became too much. That Ground Hop day lager though, is from pellets. All the Bale Breakers there are pellets. And their brewery is on a hop ranch, smack in the middle of Field 41.

 

That sounds like a rather personal question....

 

Great box @beertunes I have had a couple of those Fremont and they were excellent.

 

Yeah, they do 3 different versions every year; same beer, single fresh hop in each one. IIRC Simcoe, Citra, and Centennial.

 

Pretty sure the one I had was the citra, loved it.

 

You might be interested in this annual thread from the NW forum: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/fresh-hop-season-2018.583008/

More Fresh Hop info than you thought existed.

 

If it were me, I'd have the Field 41 first, to have their best beer IMO on a fresh palate, or space out the horizontal over multiple days. Nice box @beertunes !