Spring 2012 HB BIF Hauls Thread

I recieved a great box from mf1462. Quite the variety, I will cut and paste his descriptions. Edited for brevity:

7- This is a loose clone of a founders breakfast stout.
18R- Brett saison with dregs from a bottle of Saison Rue. (high carbonation)
23- This was an attempt at a big fresh hop harvest beer last Fall.
26- This was a batch to step-up the yeast for the Rochefort 8 clone.
27-This is a Rochefort 8 clone.
27C- This is the Rochefort 8 clone with added sour cherry juice and frozen black cherries.
29- Straight forward Kolsch with all opal hops
30- 3.5% APA with Falconers flight, Amarillo, Apollo, and Palisade.

Also, Rye Rebellion and Kaiser Pils. Pretty stoked! All are chilling, settling and not long for this world.
Thanks to Scray24, aka Scott, for organizing this BIF. I am having alot of fun.

 

Well, I have tried a few of mf1462's beers.
If the stuff you received is half as good as what I did you are in for a real treat.

 

Ok. Packing up my box tonight. 4 different homebrew beers, 3 of one of them 2 of another one, a commercial beer from a new brewery and another one from a pretty well established one. Shipping out shortly.

 

Got a phenomenal box from Naugled earlier this week but haven't had time to post the haul. Well here she is...

From left to right:
Homebrews...
'09 RIS with MO, flaked and roasted barley, and a whole bunch of extras
'10 Old Ale with 2-row, munich and vienna
'11 RIS with munich, ebina (?), vienna, wheat and 7 other specialty malts
'11 Imperial Pils
'12 Bock
'12 Dopplebock
'12 Kolsch
'12 Brown Monkey Mild Ale
'12 Calypso Pale Ale
Commercial...
Keegan Ales Mother's Milk Stout
Keegan Ales Hurricane Kitty IPA
Captain Lawrence Imp. IPA

There going into the fridge as we speak. Can't wait to try these! Thanks again Dave! Great labels by the way...what program/paper did you use to make those?

 

Crazy box from barfdiggs:


From left to right:
- Anchorage Brewing Galaxy White IPA
- The Bruery White Oak
- The Bruery Sour on the Rye
- Milk Stout with Chai
- Milk Stout with Nicaraquan Coffee
- Wheatwine
- Black IPA
- Milk Stout

Not Pictured:
- Ballast Point Sea Monster Imp Stout

Can't wait to try these. Plan on having a milk stout tasting night with the wife to try em all back to back!

Thanks, far too generous!

 

Got my box from JimmyTango yesterday and he crushed it, lots I can't wait to try. I will list everything on Sunday or Monday got to leave now for Savor (can't wait, first time going).

Big thanks again to Jimmy.

 

I like the new image feature. Here's my haul from Alexipa. Ignore the Miller Lite in the background.
From left to right.
Left Hand Black Sack
Odells Myrcenary (I think I'll be having this one tonight)
Myrcenary pint glass (cool, cool, cool)
Twisted Pine Hoppy Boy
Oskar's GKnight
Upslope Vienna Lager
HB Imperial Red
HB Belgian Wit
HB APA
HP Black IPA

I'm very excited to dig into these. Alexipa I'll keep you posted with feedback as I sample the HB's

 

LOL I've been a bit busy the last few days and didn't get onto this forum, so I never saw this thread. I did get my haul, and posted it in the conversation, but not here, so I shall now remedy that horrible tragedy!

HAUL announcement!

Box just arrived [a few days ago]. Here's the deliciousness:

homebrew:

triple 8%
80/20 belgian pale/lambic
big bottle of 10.5% IIPA
16oz bottle quad 10%
stout 9%
geuze 6%

Commercial: (oh, these are to DIE for!)

plead the 5th
Brooklyn black chocolate stout
zombie dust!!

Spectactular haul man, thanks!!

So far I have drank the geuze, belgian/mix, and the zombie dust, all were extremely delicious!!

 

Here's the box I got from radiantdesigner, he posted in the o
BM so I thought I'd keep it all together.
5 bottles of home brew, 12 oz each. 4 bottles of local commercial stuff, 12-22 oz each so a little over the 100 oz mark.

Packed up, Ok so a quick rundown of whats in there

"siren stout" cap- My first ever homebrew. A milk stout, brewed and bottled in late Feb

Shakespeare cap (quote from king Henry) - Oatmeal stout. Brewed and bottled early March

"Pale Ale" cap- american pale ale. Brewed and bottled late March.

Gold cap- Apricote pale ale (think Magic hat #9). Brewed and bottled early May

Brewer's best B cap- Bucksnort american brown- Just bottled this last Sunday night (3 days ago) so you may want to let this bottle condition for 2 weeks or more to become carbonated and have the flavors mature.


Commercial stuff:

I wanted to go with a "northern New England" theme so there is one from each of four states up here:

NH: Portsmouth Brewery (same people who brew Kate the Great).... Altbier
VT: The Alchemist (same people who brew heady topper) Celia Saison
ME: peak Organic Local series ME (brewed with ingredianced sourced in Maine)
MA: Jack's Abby Brewing Smoke and Dagger black lagger (I may have grabbed the Bier De Garde by mistake, either way one of them from this company is in there)

Good stuff can't wait to try them all.

 

I just use Microsoft Word for the labels. But I laser print it on clean room paper (used in semiconductor fabs) and use spray adhesive to attach. They peel off beautifully and are easy to clean. The paper holds up to water as well.

 

DNuggs' spectacular box arrived yesterday.

The extras:

2x cans Heady Topper (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
1x bomber Waschusett Larry (IIPA)
1x 500ml Jacks Abby Hoponious Union (Imperial hoppy Lager?)

And the Homebrews:

-A Summer Wheat with grains of paradise and lemon zest
-Blueberry Wheat without grains of paradise or lemon
-A riff on a Kate the Great clone-- really excited to try this one as I don't usually get to drink homebrewed big guys
-Hoppy Imperial Porter
-And an Amber with nuggett, liberty, and simcoe hops-- also really excited to try this one as I just brewed up a hoppy amber and this will be interesting contrast.

Big thanks again Doug!

 

Box just landed in NH.

 

I finally got my box in the mail and it should land tomorrow (Saturday). Hopefully it makes it safely and my target likes the homebrews and extras.

 

So UPS said my box arrived on the 14th but the guy I sent to (radientdesigner) hasn't been on since the 12th. Hope.everything is safe.

If my haul arrived I apologize for not posting. I have been out of the country. Get back on the 27th.

 

Just got my box from kenatbeerswap. He shipped a little late so he decided to totally overcompensate and send a huge box. All the homebrew sounds great, can't wait to try them.

Homebrew:
Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter
Braggot
Brown Porter
Dubbel
Dubbel with sour cherries
Oaked Brown Porter
Citra Pale ale

Commercial beer:
9 Different scratch beers! (I've wanted to try several of these)
Millbock Black (never even heard of this brewery)
Heady Topper (Drinking this now, hop juice in a can)