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

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?!?!?!?!?!

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.

Thanks, now that creeper is the 3rd post of this thread for eternity.....

It had to be done!

Everyone have their "Wants" updated?

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!

Indys team SHOULD be updated but I will get on that this evening

Gettting my wants updated now.

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.

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

YER ALL GETTIN KOLSCH, WHETHER YE LIKE IT ER NOT!

I was planning to send some Adjunct Lagers or Malt Liquor...only takes ten 40oz'ers to get to the min

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!

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.

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!!

You should do that anyways.....

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).

Well, that makes our job easier

Some of us are likely to take that as a challenge...

Team Tejas is shipping to where my sister works/lives....put that in ur pipe and smoooke it!

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

I am the Queen of France.

Updated WANTS list for this Cleveland BA

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!!

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.

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.

First PNW hint: Our target is East of us

Hint from NJ: Our target is outside of 25 miles from the nearest border of our state line....

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

·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...

As long as you send up a bottle of imperial gumballheadDJLanceRock

Team Philly Hint: One of my wants is brewed in our target state

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.

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

Cheers

Hmmmm........

Our box is coming along nicely, some team is getting alot of really good stuff, even some limited goodness

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

Hint #2:

Damn that song is lame. But still... you get the gist.

Not the best clue... but looking at our NJ distro and that of our target, they should be some very happy campers!

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

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: