Reap What You Sow: The Hunt/Trash Talk/Hints/General Stupidity

Alright, after a week long session of heavy thinking, the rankings are in!!! As many have stated in our group message, this was very hard to do and if I had to do this 5 different times, my rankings would probably be slightly different each time.

First off here are the boxes that were submitted:

1. readbaron (Box 1)
· 750 ml Alesmith BA Wee Heavy 2009
· 750 ml Bullfrog Oud 15
· 750 ml East End Gratitude 2009
· 22 oz Flossmoor Station BB Hi-Fi Rye
· 750ml Hill Farmstead E.
· 375 ml Jolly Pumpkin Biere De Mars GR
· 375 ml Jolly Pumpkin La Roja GR
· 375 ml Lost Abbey Framboise De Amarosa
· 375 ml New Glarus R&D Gueze
· 375 ml Russian River Beatification B5
· 22 oz Three Floys Dark Lord 2010
· 750 ml Town Hall Twisted Jim

2. BeerBuddy2122 (Box 2)
· 22 oz Sucuba ‘12
· 22 oz BCBCS ‘12
· 22 oz Abyss ‘12
· 375 ml Supplication
· 22 oz Imperial Biscotti Break ‘12
· 750 ml 3F Schaerbeekse ’11 batch
· 16.9 oz Beer Geek Brunch Weasel #588
· 750 ml Weyerbacher Rapture (batch 2)
· 750 ml Funk Metal ‘12
· 750 ml Jester King RU- 55
· 750 ml De Dolle Stille Nacht Reserva 2010

3. Fortsambo (Box 3)
· 750 ml The Bruery Chocolate Rain b2
· 750 ml Bell’s The Wild One
· 750 ml ’10 Surly Darkness
· 750 ml Crooked Stave Batch 1
· 22 oz Dry Dock Bligh’s Barleywine ‘13
· 750 ml Cigar City Brewing Moat Water
· 750 ml Odell Friek ‘12
· 750 ml Cascade Blueberry ’12
· 22 oz Kern River Citra (last release – Feb ’13)
· 750 ml Jester King/Mikkeller Whiskey Barrel Rodeo

4. Mista (Box 4)
· 750 ml Ivan the Terrible
· 12 oz Westy XII
· 22 oz Central Waters 15
· 22 oz Abyss ‘10
· 22 oz BCBCS ‘12
· 375 ml Beat B5
· 500 ml Hill Farmstead Birth of Tragedy (latest)
· 22 oz Midnight Sun Berserker
· 750 ml Fitgers Edmund Fitzgerald (1/500)
· 64 oz Town Hall Twisted Trace Growler (1/100)

5. Alefish (Box 5)
· 22 oz Goose Island Madame Rose
· 750 ml Mother Earth Silent Night
· 750 ml Hardywood Gingerbread stout
· 750 ml Cascade 2011 Kriek
· 22 oz BCBCS 2012
· 750 ml Bruery Sour in the Rye
· 22 oz Three Floyds 2011 Behemoth
· 22 oz Epic Big Bad Baptist 2012
· 12 oz Troeg's Nugget Nectar 2013 X2
· 12oz Weyerbacher Insanity 2013
· 375 ml Cantillon Classic 2011

6. chrisp450 (Box 6)
· 22 oz Central Waters 15
· 750 ml Surly Pentagram
· 750 ml Surly Darkness 2012
· 12 oz Bell’s Black Note
· 12 oz Westy 12
· 22 oz BCBS Coffee 2012
· 12 oz BCBS 2008
· 22 oz Abyss 2012
· 750 ml GBS - Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
· Silva Stout
· 22 oz Parabola 2012
· 750 ml Raspberry Tart - New Glarus
o One Sleeping With Shaggy, or one Black Note can be subbed for anything on the list, just an option!

7. Bauermj (Box 7)
· 750 ml Cantillon Cuvee St. Gilloise (2012)
· 500 ml New Glarus R&D Gueuze (2010)
· 500 ml New Glarus R&D Sour Ale (2012)
· 330 ml Jolly Pumpkin Biere de Mars Grand Reserve (2011)
· 330 ml Jolly Pumpkin La Roja Grand Reserve (2011)
· 750 ml Upland Blueberry Lambic (2010)
· 750 ml Cascade Blueberry batch 1 (2011)
· 750 ml Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Blue
· 750 ml Mikkeller Sour Bitch
· 375 ml RR Beatification b5
· 750 ml Bruery Black Tuesday (2012)
· 22 oz GI Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout (2012)

8. Bulbman (Box 8)
· 22 oz Olde Hickory Event Horizon '11
· 750 ml CCB Hunahpu '11
· 750 ml Brooklyn Black Ops '10
· 22 oz Voodoo Big Black Voodoo Daddy '11
· 22 oz Jackie O's Dark Apparition '11
· 750 ml CCB Imperial Milk Porter '11
· 22 oz Firestone 14
· 750 ml CCB Cognac Sweet Stout '12
· 750 ml Bruery Melange #3
· 750 ml Founders Better Half


9. Beerthirty (Box 9)
· 750 ml T25 ‘12
· 750 ml BA Kopi '13
· 750 ml Peche n Brett '13
· 12 oz Silva stout ‘13
· 22 oz BB oil of Aphrodite '12
· 12 oz BA Blackout '13
· 12 oz BB4D '12
· 22 oz BCBCS '12
· 12 oz BBPt5 ‘12
· 375 ml Beat 5 ‘12
· 12 oz Black note '12
· 750 ml Fantome Saison (no date, but assuming '12)
10. Twiggamortis420 (Box 10)
· 22 oz 2012 Freetail La Muerta Imperial Stout
· 22 oz 2012 Saint Arnold Pumpkinator Imperial Pumpkin Stout
· 750 ml 2009 Batch #2 Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad
· 750 ml 2009 Oud Beersel Oude Geuze Vieille
· 12 oz Saint Arnold Bishop's Barrel #1 Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
· 12 oz Saint Arnold Devine Reserve #12 Old Ale
· 22 oz Karbach Pontificator Smoked Doppelbock
· 22 oz Jester King Original (Non-Farmhouse) Black Metal Imperial Stout
· 22 oz 2011 Deschutes BB XXIII Imperial Porter
· 22 oz Saint Arnold Endeavor DIPA
· 500 ml 2007 George Gail's Prize Old Ale
· 12 oz Real Ale Brewers' Cut #2 - Black Quad
· 12 oz Real Ale Brewers' Cut #4 - Imperial Red Ale

11. Stigs (Box 11)
· 750 ml East End Gratitude ('06)
· 750 ml Alesmith BA Speedway ('12)
· 12 oz Great Lakes Barrel-Aged Blackout ('13)
· 12 oz Great Lakes Barrel-Aged Blackout ('12)
· 22 oz Jackie O's Bourbon-Barrel Dark Apparition Nuts
· 22 oz Jackie O's Bourbon-Barrel Skipping Stone
· 22 oz Pelican Mother of All Storms ('12)
· 12 oz Founders KBS ('09)
· 12 oz 2x Fathead's Head Hunter IPA
· 12 oz 2x Troegs Nugget Nectar

12. Hokiechef (Box 12)
· 24oz Westbrook / Evil Twin Mini growler (2012)
· 12oz Westvleteren 12 (US release,2012?)
· 750 ml Unibroue 11 (2002)
· 22 oz Firestone Parabola (2011)
· 750 ml Hardywood GBS (2012)
· 750 ml Hardywood Bourbon GBS (2012)
· 750 ml CCB / The Bruery Marron Acidife (2011?)
· 22 oz Mother of All Storms (2012)
· 750 ml Surly Darkness (2012)
· 750 ml Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien (2006)
· 12oz Drie Fonteinen Oude Kriek (2005)

13. davesway10 (box 13)
· 12 oz BA Plead the 5th 2012 x 2
· 12 ox Black Note 2013 x 2
· 22 oz 50/50 Eclipse EC 20 2011
· 22 oz Bourbon County Coffee 2011
· 22 oz Parabola Reserve series 002 2011
· 22 oz Sucaba Reserve series 002 2012
· 22 oz Mother of all Storms 2012
· 22 oz The Abyss 2011
· 22 oz Lindley Park 2012
· 750 ml Gingerbread Stout 2012

Djmichaelk (Box 14)
· Peg's RareR DOS
· 22 oz Pelican Mother of All Storms
· 750 ml CCB Cognac BA Church on a Hill
· 22 oz Fremont Bourbon Abominable
· 22 oz Goose Island King Henry
· 22 oz Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout ('10 or '12)
· 750 ml Cantillon Fou Foune
· 750 ml Founders CBS
· 750 ml Bruery Black Tuesday '12
· 500 ml Russian River Beatification b5
· 22 oz Midnight Sun Arctic Devil

15. Wagenvolks (Box 15)
· 750ml Bruery White Chocolate
· 750ml Bruery Black Tuesday ('12)
· 750ml Cascade Sang Noir ('11)
· 750ml Cigar City Cognac Barrel-aged Imperial Sweet Stout
· 750ml Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout ('12)
· 750ml Jester King Funk Metal
· 22oz Freetail La Muerta ('12)
· 22oz Freetail Raspberry Ananke
· 22oz Freetail Yo Soy Un Berliner

drumroll

Box 16:

1. Midnight Sun M
2. Bud Light
3. Bud Light
4. Bud Light
5. Bud Light
6. Bud Light
7. Bud Light
8. Bud Light
9. Bud Light
10. Bud Light
11. Bud Light
12. Bud Light
13. Bud Light

(no?)

There was a clear cut # 1 box (Box14), way to go Djmichaelk! There were many close races that ended in totals differing only by a few points. We also had a tie between myself and Mista for 4th. This resulted in an epic rock/paper/scissor match refereed by Bauermj in which paper was sent by both participants in the first 2 rounds and ended with a victory by me over Mista in the 3rd round. All of the boxes were absolutely stellar!! With that being said, someone has to be first and someone has to be last. And here are the results!!

Box 1: 5,5,1,2,1,2,2,2,3,10,9,2,2 =48 (2nd)
Box 2: 12,9,12,6,6,11,7,7,13,13,13,13,14,11 =147 (13th)
Box 3: 4,4,4,4,4,4,3,8,7,8,5,6,4,5 =70(4th – won tie with Mista)
Box 4: 5,10,6,5,5,5,4,5,4,4,9,1,3,4 =70 (5th)
Box 5: 13,13,12,13,13,13,13,12,10,11,14,12,12,13 =174 (14th)
Box 6: 7,2,5,7,7,7,8,4,6,6,3,4,7,7 =80 (6th)
Box 7: 3,7,4,2,8,7,11,3,1,5,7,14,5,6 =83 (7th)
Box 8: 6,9,7,11,12,8,10,11,8,14,4,2,9,9 =120 (8th)
Box 9: 2,3,3,3,3,9,3,5,5,2,2,7,1,3 =51 (3rd)
Box 10: 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,9,14,12,12,11,11,14 =181 (15th)
Box 11: 11,11,10,6,9,12,12,14,10,12,6,5,8,10 =136 (11th)
Box 12: 9,6,13,8,13,11,6,12,6,9,10,10,13,12 =138 (12th)
Box 13: 10,8,11,9,10, 10, 9,6,9,11,9,8,10,8 =128 (9th)
Box 14: 1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,3,1,1,3,1 =20 (1st)
Box 15: 8,12,8,10,11,3,8,10,13,14,7,11,8,6 =129 (10th)

This is fawking great, some very solid boxes in this thing. I hope most of them end up changing hands. Nice work, fellas. Let me know when round 2 is.

So the order of picks is as follows:

1. Djmichaelk
2. readbaron
3. Beerthirty
4. fortsambo
5. Mista
6. chrisp450
7. Bauermj
8. Bulbman
9. Davesway10
10. Wagenvolks
11. Stigs
12. Hockiechef
13. BeerBuddy2122
14. Alefish
15. Twiggamortis420

Dj, you are up. You may select your own box or any others. After he picks, we will just run down the line!

Kick-ass. let the draft begin!

Also, I'd like to go on record to thank fortsambo for putting together and executing (thus far) a fantastic BIF!

Congrats Djmichaelk, definitely a top notch box.

Interesting results on this one. Not sure I'll do round 2 but fun to see play out. Good idea fortsambo. I'm pretty disappointed with how my box placed, a last place vote certainly didn't help.

Thanks man! I think round 2 will be much easier to run!

Man, your box was all over the place! Anywhere from 1st to 14th, crazy. I think I ranked it 2nd!

EDIT: it was pointed out I only listed 13/14 rankings for box 1. Should read:

5,2,5,1,2,1,2,2,2,3,10,9,2,2

Ohhhh, a WHOLE hour?

I had no idea the caliber of these boxes. I know now that to participate in one of these my box has to be 90% whalez. I thought top notch stuff would get it done but alas, not true!

If I were a betting man I would say that a lot of people won't be shipping and will be keeping their own box...

Not me! I'm taking someone else's box fo sho.

Lots of great boxes there. It'll be interesting to see the draft play out.

Very enticed to join round 2. Good work, Sam!

So I went into nerd mode and calculated the mean and statistical variance for each of the boxes. I boldfaced the three boxes whose rankings had the highest variance (mine, BauerMJ, and Bulbman).

BOX#|Mean|Variance|(Actual Rank)
Box 1: 3.43 7.53 (2)
Box 2: 10.5 7.82 (13)
Box 3: 5.0 2.43 (4*)
Box 4: 5.0 4.71 (5*)
Box 5: 12.4 0.96 (14)
Box 6: 5.71 3.06 (6)
Box 7: 5.92 11.5 (7)
Box 8: 8.57 9.24 (8)
Box 9: 3.64 4.37 (3)
Box 10: 12.9 2.5 (15)
Box 11: 9.71 6.48 (11)
Box 12: 9.86 6.41 (12)
Box 13: 9.14 1.70 (9)
Box 14: 1.42 0.53 (1)
Box 15: 9.21 8.02 (10)

Whoop whoop, last pick baby! At least I might be saving on shipping

About 2-3 places lower than I expected / hoped. Going to have to do better for Round 2. Looking forward to it already!

I actually liked yours best Matt, go figure. Different tastes for different monkeys, I 'spose...though Im prolly one of the few that has not had any of the JP GRs....

Let's get the selections going!

Wow - that early list ended up being eerily accurate:

Especially considering who #1 was.

And with the first pick in the 2013 Reap What You Sow draft, djmichaelk selects...

Sorry about not chiming in yesterday, currently recovering from a 3-day bender. I think even my hair hurts. Opened a bunch of huge bottles over the weekend & now have a boatload of entries to add to my shitty blog.

While there are a number of boxes in this thing that I'd love to have, sadly I'll be choosing mine. I think I overshot the mark a little on this one, packing way too much into a single box in my OCD-ness. (I had 9-1-4 as my 1-2-3, great job to BeerThirty, readbaron, and Mista!)

Funnily enough, while grading/ranking the boxes, I was taking guesses at who submitted each one. I was wrong on just about all of them. You guys did a great job of mixing things up to keep it from being obvious.

Seemed like a no-brainer, things seem to get much more interesting now that Andrew Luck is off the board...

Yeah, that box was a cut above the rest. I think things will get more interesting now!

Thanks for the vote! I don't think you overshot at all - i think i undershot! Game on for round 2

Readbaron you're up!

Man, I hope this thing picks up a bit!

Maybe some in the bif don't have "follow thread" selected? Could always notify each person via BM.

Good move, Michael!!!

I sent him a message just in case.

zzzzzzzzzzz

Well said

Longest draft, ever. Is there a pick clock like the pro drafts, where the next team can race up and sneak a pick in? I think 24 hours is a reasonable amount of time to make a selection.

Looks like he read my BM this morning, not sure what the holdup is.

24hrs? c'mon it takes longer than that to setup potential trades for all the beers you are drafting

Sorry for taking forever guys. I asked a couple tasting buddies for input then got caught up in work stuff today.

Anyway after thinking about it waaay too much - I'm going to go with Box #9.

So, put down the pitchforks and carry on with the drafting.

Cheers!