Gang Bang BIF Round 2 - More Bang for your Gang - Hints & Hauls

Discussion in 'Beer It Forward' started by YaKnowBrady, May 24, 2012.

  1. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Targets are out! Team Captains have received their teams target information via BM this morning, so please let me know if you are without said information, and I will provide it.

    Team Captains:

    1. Pittsburgh, PA: mgbickel
    2. Cleveland, OH: misterhops
    3. Buffalo, NY: trxxpaxxs
    4. New Jersey: OsNJCB
    5. Montana: RWNewhouse
    6. Indianapolis, IN: Shoo65
    7. Florida: wscaffe
    8. PNW/Washington: libbey
    9. Philadelphia: Centennial
    10. Southern California: Corregidore
    11. Texas: twiggamortis420
    12. NOVA/MD/DC: IrishColonial
    13. Minnesota: Penguin3200
    14. Oklahoma: ThirstyHerf


    Please direct all direct questions to your Gang’s leader, and they will keep an open line of contact with me, which will keep my inbox from overflowing.

    Box Rules:
    ·400 oz. Minimum, 500 oz. Maximum.
    ·Must contain Beer & Shwag (glasses, shirts, koozies, etc., NOT just coasters), and snacks/miscellaneous extras are encouraged. Please try to do your best to have all team members covered. Souvenirs besides a hangover are cool to take home from this.

    ·To ensure that everyone in the group gets a taste of each beer, bottles should be 22oz or larger (unless multiples are included). However, smaller formatted rarities are always welcomed.
    ·Organize a collection/packaging party in the 2nd or 3rd week of June to get the boxes ready for shipping (doubles as a tasting party…how convenient!). Target ship date is by June 30th, absolute latest.
    ·Hold a tasting in July for the official opening of the boxes. Whoever receives the box MUST NOT OPEN until the entire group is there to share in the excitement of unwrapping and seeing everything for the first time.
    ·After the July opening/tasting, pictures of the haul MUST be posted, and general consensus reviews, likes/dislikes, should be posted as well.
    ·If you don’t get to open every bottle at the initial tasting, it is up to your group on how you want to approach the leftovers. You can either send BAs home in either a raffle or round-robin draft, or you can hold onto for future tastings.

    ·Please try to share the responsibilities and costs. If someone is hosting, and one is making a run to gather swag from a brewery, the rest of the group should compensate with shipping costs, offering their share in cash, or otherwise. Don’t leave it all up to certain people to cover your share!

    Let’s try and keep videos and .gifs off this page as best as possible, as that tends to get be in trouble.


    CAN YOU DIG IT?!?!?!?!?!
  2. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    ALSO: Please remember to put 2 bottles, wrapped well and labels hidden, towards the top of the box. This will allow the target's receiving address BA to take those bottles out and pop them in the fridge, so that they are chilled prior to the rest of the BAs arriving for the tasting.

    At the sending teams discretion, you can let me know when the projected landing date of your box will be to your target, so that I can advise them to organize their tasting around that date.
  3. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Thanks, now that creeper is the 3rd post of this thread for eternity.....
  4. ehammond1 Member

    Location:
    California
    It had to be done!
  5. trxxpaxxs Member

    Location:
    New York
    Everyone have their "Wants" updated?
  6. podunkparte Member

    Location:
    Washington
    Looking at a couple names on our target, I can tell you no. Some don't even have Wants listed at all. Get on this boys!
  7. Shoo65 Member

    Location:
    Indiana
    Indys team SHOULD be updated but I will get on that this evening
  8. Penguin3200 Member

    Location:
    Minnesota
    Gettting my wants updated now.
  9. RWNewhouse Member

    Location:
    Montana
    As the MT Captain, I'm encouraging (aka. threatening) everyone to get their Wants in order. I can safely say that most styles suit us, including Stouts, Barley Wines, DIPAs, Lambics, Sours, Saisons and IPAs.
  10. Shoo65 Member

    Location:
    Indiana
    Indy team is the same way , loves good beer , but will say a majority of our favorites to to stouts and barleywines. BA is always acceptable
  11. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    YER ALL GETTIN KOLSCH, WHETHER YE LIKE IT ER NOT!
  12. duceswild Member

    Location:
    Maryland
    I was planning to send some Adjunct Lagers or Malt Liquor...only takes ten 40oz'ers to get to the min ;)
  13. misterhops Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    as for the cleveland team, id say only about half of our crew is "active" on BA. the others have accounts, but may not have updated wants (although ill try my best to push them). We are all huge fans of things aged in barrels (stouts, bw, sours). Fresh, super hoppy treats are always appreciated as well. Also, we have 1 extra team member. please do not feel obligated to include them with schwag.... cheers!
  14. merc7186 Member

    Location:
    New York
    I hope Team Buffalo gets Team Cleveland because are going to fill up boxes of Great Lakes, drive it to them and help them drink it....LOL.
  15. corregidore Member

    Location:
    California
    So Cal team here. We're fans of all the usual suspects (sours, stouts, IPA's, barleywines - and, as this BIF title would suggest, anything that has gotten some wood!). We're all pretty active on BA and have up-to-date want lists.

    First hint: We're shipping to a team east of us. Sorry non-existent Hawaii team!!
  16. Jparkanzky Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    You should do that anyways.....
  17. IrishColonial Member

    Location:
    Virginia
    I advised our team to update Wants as well. All of us are on BA and as far as I know, most of us like the usual suspects as well (mentioned most recently by corregidore above).
  18. IrishColonial Member

    Location:
    Virginia
    Well, that makes our job easier :D
  19. sliverX Member

    Location:
    New York
    Some of us are likely to take that as a challenge...
  20. twiggamortis420 Member

    Location:
    Texas
    Team Tejas is shipping to where my sister works/lives....put that in ur pipe and smoooke it!
  21. podunkparte Member

    Location:
    Washington
    One member from team PNW loves one member from team Buffalo for posting Rejected Cartoons!!!!!

    I am the Queen of France.
  22. bbarak Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    Updated WANTS list for this Cleveland BA
  23. mgbickel Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    The Pittsburgh OGs have been advised to update their wants. I personally haven't updated mine, but they haven't changed.

    Remember, Brady put a cap on this, so lets all destroy our target with high quality!!
  24. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Agreed. PLEASE try not to exceed 500 oz as best as you can. I know that the last rounds hauls were a spectacle to view, but please try to focus on good, quality beer.

    Conversely, not looking for any whales here, but as the Golden Trading Rule states, send out a box that you'd be happy to receive.
  25. Penguin3200 Member

    Location:
    Minnesota
    Team Minnesota has the packaging date set and the goods are being proposed, vetted, and acquired. Our "Minnesota nice" motto may have us include a neighboring state or two brews.

    First hint: my favorite Grandpa once practiced there.
  26. podunkparte Member

    Location:
    Washington
    First PNW hint: Our target is East of us ;)
  27. YaKnowBrady Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Hint from NJ: Our target is outside of 25 miles from the nearest border of our state line....
  28. Jparkanzky Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    My 'wants' have never really changed. I should probably add to them, as a lot of stuff has been released since January though!
  29. mgbickel Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    ·After the July opening/tasting, pictures of the haul MUST be posted, and general consensus reviews, likes/dislikes, should be posted as well.


    I tried to implement this last round and only got a few responses. Since Brady seems to have gathered a more willing and eager gang of gangs than I did, maybe (yinz, ya'll, yous) will be willing to do such a thing. The few that did participate last year made it really fun. I always enjoy hearing what others think of the selections I send...
  30. twiggamortis420 Member

    Location:
    Texas
    As long as you send up a bottle of imperial gumballheadDJLanceRock
  31. DoubleSunshine610 Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Team Philly Hint: One of my wants is brewed in our target state ;)
  32. ThirstyHerf Member

    Location:
    Oklahoma
    The Oklahoma Gang aka Team Thunder Brats have been advised to update their wants. We, like most, enjoy bbl aged stouts & bw's, and love our sours. I wouldnt say our team is filled with hop-heads but DIPA's are always nice.

    First hint, No one on TTB has ever received a BIF box from our target's region.
  33. Shoo65 Member

    Location:
    Indiana
    Team indy first hint : one of my best friends lives in the state we are shipping to.

    Cheers
  34. jenray Member

    Location:
    Texas
    Hmmmm........
  35. rebis1bear Member

    Location:
    Minnesota
    Our box is coming along nicely, some team is getting alot of really good stuff, even some limited goodness
  36. trxxpaxxs Member

    Location:
    New York
    I know the shipping date is still more than a month out, but we all know that we want more hints...

    Hint #2:
  37. trxxpaxxs Member

    Location:
    New York
    Damn that song is lame. But still... you get the gist.
  38. NJOssie Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Not the best clue... but looking at our NJ distro and that of our target, they should be some very happy campers!
  39. wscaffe Member

    Location:
    Florida
    Team Jacksonville's box is coming together nicely. We are hoping to fill our target's box exclusively with wants. So far, so good.
  40. libbey Member

    Location:
    Washington
    South Sound Tasting's targetbox is coming together nicely. They can expect I wide range of PNW sours, imperial stouts and awesome IPA's.

    I suppose a hint is in order:

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