Stone Vertical Epic 03-11 LIF

Thanks a bunch for all the support guys! I'm out of town until Monday, then gonna do a final push for a week and a half or so, and do the drawing. We're just 3 donations away from me throwing in another set!

Cheers!

 

Okay... gonna make one final push here. $50 more in donations and I'm adding another set. I'll draw and announce the winners on this Saturday, and aim to have everything shipped out that Monday.

Thanks again to everyone who already donated. The beer community really never fails to surprise me with its generosity.

 

Thanks guys! You're in there. AND I'm now giving away 2 03-11 sets and a bottle of 03 and 07 (as well as some fun extras).

 

I apologize for the delay in doing this drawing. I had a hell of a weekend, involving, among other things, my car being towed from half a block away from my house for no apparent reason. But I digress. For the drawing, I've written a different number on each of 46 individual and essentially identical pieces of dog kibble. Each piece of kibble represents $10 of donation, and the kibble corresponds to the donators in the order in which they made their donations. For instance, the first $20 donation was made by John Paulsen, so if I draw the kibble with a 1 or 2 on it, John Paulsen wins. Lakesider1818 made the final donation, also for $20, so kibbles 45 and 46 would indicate a win for lakesider1818. If you donated $50, you have 5 pieces of kibble, and so on. You get the idea. There will be three prizes drawn (the two sets first, and the '03 and '07 third), and nobody will be allowed to win more than once. I will also throw some other fun stuff in there based on where the winners live (trying to avoid sending anything you might already have access to). So, with that out of the way, I will do the drawing...

 

I tried to take a video of the drawing process, but the camera angles were so bad, you couldn't see what was happening anyway. Then it took a while to figure out which number corresponded to which donator (there was probably an easier way to do this, but I got kind of married to the idea of using dog kibble).
However, the winners are...

1st winner ('03-'11 VEs): kibble #18 (robL on BA)
2nd winner ('03-'11 VEs): kibble #4 (TheBeerAlmanac on BA -- AKA Hugh Jareckson)
3rd winner ('03 and '07 VEs): kibble #33 (Marco Cervi on rb)

Congratulations! Let me know your shipping info, and I'll get this stuff right out to you.

And thanks again to everyone for your generosity. I really appreciate it, and more importantly, I'm sure the Animal Rescue League appreciates it. I never cease to be impressed with how generous the beer community can be.

Cheers!

P.S. For anyone who cares, I'll put another update on here after I run the 5K May 5 with my time, and any hilarious stories I might end up having about almost dying or whatever.