What is your Holiday haul? What beer(s) did you get for Christmas?

received a homemade wooden six pack carrier with an attached bottle opener!

included was a 4pack of New Holland's Dragon's Milk Bourbon Barrel Stout!!

my cousin isn't a beer nerd like me but i loved seeing that inside the carrier!

 

Not yet. Had it before - spectacular beer.

 

No picture but I got


Black Tuesday X 2
Chocolate Rain
Melange 3 X 2

Murra Christmus

 

I got a membership in Sierra Nevada's Alpha Hop Society

 

I served a guest Double Bastard, then he gave me one.

 

The wife got me a bottle of Stone Enjoy After (July 4th)

 

Nice haul there - I shutter to think what the price was if they were purchased on the collector's market - after searching for full BBA's for decades, I finally found some when eBay started up in the late 1990s but dropped out of the bidding when they started going for over $100 at the turn of the century. But that's the beauty of a gift - price is no object.

Got a name on the left side one? Can't make it out, and I've been trying to keep a running list of recipients.

"Fin, Fur and Feathers Club" bottles have turned up before - and they seem to have been on the list for several years in the 1960s (I've seen a 1966 bottle and read a review of another IIRC). I've seen references to the club being in Chicago but there is also one down in affluent "horse country" in central Jersey - http://www.fffnj.com/ "since 1932" - wouldn't be odd if the Badenhausens had friends in that area, living a bit further north.

A lot of article on BBA discuss how it is among the "rarest" beers but, man, have there been a lot of bottles turn up in recent years. I've always wondered why that is - did Ballantine recommend further aging (I've found boxes with address labels, no but paperwork that might have been included or sent separately)? Or was it just so "different" that it got stuck away in a corner only to be - luckily- rediscovered decades later? Certainly some bottles survived in the collections of the early beer geekery that existed before the "craft" era. Fritz Maytag shared a bottle from his cellar with Michael Jackson, resutling in one of the earliest mentions of the beer (by then, gone for over two decades) in the latter first US Pocket Guide to Beer. The hop growing family which runs Segal Farms were recipients, too, IIRC. But one would think those bottles don't reach the secondary "collector" market.

 

Variety pack of Funky Buddha (sibling picked)
-Hop Gun
-Floridian
-Nib Smuggler

Jai Alai
And Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

 

Brutal, just brutal. That is one sick sense of humor considering its Christmas.

 

It was just a minor prank, I got other good things. Also, I already bought a Rare for myself.

 

I got a 4 pack of New Glarus Milk Stout. Had one last night, and it was awesome.

 

These I got from a bottle collector in NJ - he posted them on eBay 18 months ago but they got pulled down; it took us a while to arrange the sale after that. The price was not terrible. Anyway, the other one is blank - no name of a recipient printed. So I am not sure if it's one an employee snagged or what.

 

One of my buddies who lives up in New Hampshire brought me down a Von Trappe variety pack. As a lover of lager, I'm pretty stoked. 3 bottles each of their Helles, Dunkel, Vienna, and Bohemian Pils.

 

4 pack of Rude Elf's Reserve
4 pack of SBC Toboggan
4 pack of ST Pumpking

 

Rye on Rye
Peppermint Victory at Sea
Weyerbacher Blasphemy
Case of Wolaver's Pumpkin Ale (mom surprised me at the holiday party with it. Said she got it discounted for $10 due to the store trying to move products out of season. Any beer tastes good for $10/case, let alone a craft brew)
2015 Rare
2015 Prop
2015 BCBCS
Regal Rye
2015 BCBS x3
2015 BCBBW x2
and a gift card to the local bottle shop

 

Wife got me a tool to make these

My fourth one I think I got it down nice and smooth

 

Founders and Begyle from wife's family, my brother bought me the Orange Blossom and 3 Daughters, and he brought up the BCBS coffee '13 for a trade

 

I just received a very nice box from The Bruery, as an unexpected and wonderful add-on for all the freelance design work I did for them this year:



They are great people and a fantastic client. If I had one or two more clients as good as them, I'd be one of the happiest designers around.

I'm particularly thrilled to have a bottle of Ride That Goat, since I was about to try trading for one. It sounds fantastic.

 

Bourbon Barrel Black Maple x6
Hoppin Frog Boris Van Wink x2
Hoppin Frog Frosted Frog
3 Floyd's Munsterfest

 

Probably a smaller haul compared to others:

Bourbon Barrel Hardywood GBS (c/o brother in law)
Ridgeway Lump of Coal (c/o blind gift exchange)
ExceptionALE gift cert (c/o in-laws - my wife will more than likely grab this to fill up some growlers)

 

Rhinegeist Dad - hoppy holiday ale
New Glarus Scream
Fremont BA Abominable - Coffee & Cinnamon
Holy Mountain The Hart - Oak fermented saison
Hop Freshener - Tropical & Juicy
Perinnal- Abraxus

 

Got some home brewed stout that did not survive the first night. Also got these two which are taunting me to open them.

 

My wonderful wife bought me a growler of Jeremiah Red from BJ's. I bought myself a six pack of Stone Xocoveza

 

Dogfish Higher Math, Stone Southern Charred and Double Bastard in the Rye, New Belgium Accumulation (good cheap IPA in my opinion), and ten assorted Boulevard beers from my Aunt who lives in KC. Also 3 gift cards to the local liquor store and a beer fridge for my "cellar." I'm thankful for my family that understands my love for beer!

 

My brother got me this sweet growler from @Sixpoint full of Central Waters "Call me old fashioned" for Xmas. I plan on using the shit out of this thing.

 

Better late than never

 

My wife spoiled me a bit this year:

- Cambridge Brewing Co. You Enjoy My Stout
- Pretty Things Our Finest Regards
- Pretty Things Barbapapa
- Mystic Brewing Spectral Evidence
- Avery Vanilla Bean
- Night Shift Barrel Society membership renewal

 

No beer received for Christmas (visiting in-laws in upstate NY), but I was given this beer pairing book: http://www.amazon.com/Beer-Pairing-Essential-Guide-Pros/dp/076034843X

I also made a couple of beer runs to Wegmans for some Great Lakes, Founders, and local beer that isn't available in MD so I'm heading home today with roughly two cases of beer.

 

Wednesday, First trip, 12 pack Celebration, 4 pack of Allagash White, sixer of Brickstone DIPA and a sixer of Revolution Fistmas
Thursday, Second trip, 12 pack Celebration, sixer of Resin, case of Bud Light, Magic Hat 12 pack sampler and a bottle of E.H. Taylor
Saturday, third trip, Case of Celebration, four pack of Plead the 5th, bottle of Baileys
Strangely enough I haven't drank very much and we've been going out a lot but... the kids are back in town and I'm beginning to think that introducing them to good beer is more expensive than college

 

My mother-in-law's manfriend bought me a 3L of Double Bastard... from the store that I work at.

 

You must need to work on one of those kids a bit more if you included some Bud Light in your haul. That's a nice trunkful of beer that you have there!

 

My sister gave me the craft beer equivalent of coal, bless her heart but she doesn't know anything about beer. Trying to cover my disgust I wandered over to her fine built in wine cooler and ---- found a 2011 Bourbon County Stout I had given her years ago! It was delicious.

 

Founders heaven

 

Bought my own Christmas beer early on trip toTulsa
Dallas
4 pack of Barrel Aged Legion from Community
4 pack of Barrel Aged Inspiration from Community
4 pack of Oaked Mosaic IPA from Community
1 bomber of Big Bad Baptist
Tulsa
1 Prairie Okie with Coffee
1 Aun Mas Chili Jesus
4 pack of wooden rooster (m y opinion best of the Explorer series)
4 pack of Roughtail Hoptometrist
And someone gave me a SA Sampler, actually stoked about that one, haven't bought it yet but wanted to try them all

 

A buddy of mine from VA showed up with a Hardywood GBS, BAGBS, Apple Brandy Barrel GBS, and a Christmas Morning. I was like 'are you sure dude?'.

 

Kuhnhenn Brewing Co.
One foiled bottle each of Bourbon Barrel 4th Dementia, Triple Rice IPA (TRIPA), Dark Heathen Triple Bock, and Bourbon Barrel Barleywine.

 

A great selection from Trillium and Night shift.

 

- Deschutes The Stoic
- Destihl Here Gose Nothing
- Double Chocolate Stout
- one new carboy!

 

2015 Founders Backwoods Bastard x2
2015 Founders Breakfast Stout
2015 Dark Horse Plead the 5th Imperial Stout
2015 SN Narwhal Imperial Stout
Bells 30th Anniversary Imperial Stout
2015 Blackrocks Brewery Gnomas (English-style barleywine) x6
2015 Saugatuck Barrel Aged Neapolitan Milk Stout
2015 Greenbush x SmallBar Mr. Hyde

Cellaring the Breakfast Stout, a Backwoods Bastard, Plead the 5th, Narwhal, 30th Anniversary, and 3/6 of the Gnomas for next year's holiday!

Haven't touched the rest, but hoping to start tonight with the Neapolitan.