Note: My smallest beer haul ever. I spent my finances this month upgrading home-brew equipment, doing more batches (YAY SOUR BEERZ) and replenishing my savings account after a 2 week trip to Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark followed by a weekend in Philly. I bought 8 Tired Hands Growlers (not pictured) so that’s a part of the beer haul but those were consumed. For the most part, I didn’t buy much this month nor did I take too many photos and I expect May to be almost identical as far as hauls go.
In the last 2 months, I’ve cleared out one of my 7 beer shelves on the cellar. I’ve been persistently drinking down my cellar of all undesirables and not replacing those beers with more undesirables. I’m also trading away beers I already have and not trading out a lot of fresh Vermont IPAs like I was last year. Overall, slimming things down a bit to make the cellar more manageable and clear a few shelves for home-brew carboys. Every beer I’m brewing over the next few weeks involves wild yeast so that’s a new thing for me and requires getting rid of crap I don’t want.
Sorry for the small beer haul. May’s haul will be similar.
The biggest “haul” of April was that I bought a new car..yes, I bought a new car just weeks after getting back from Europe. My life – budget is totally blown for the next 2-3 months and that’s okay. I love the new car and finally put an adult expense over beer. It feels good
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I thought you didn’t like that 5 Sciences Saison. A beer with no carbonation would be not worth the $20, IMO. I think I saw it for $30 today at a beer store outside of town.
Most of it is already gone. I’m friends with a lot of guys who must tick / rate every Fantome beer so I am sharing it with them with the understanding that it is absolutely flat and not worth trading for (much less worth the $20 retail price) but if you want to track down every Fantome, you gotta go through a few flat / jello ones.
I don’t plan on drinking any of these myself.
So, you’re right.
I do wonder if it was on purpose. Everywhere I saw it for sale had a big “Note: This beer has no carbonation” under the price. Other than unblended lambic, I’ve never heard of an uncarbonated beer.
YEP! It’s not even really a trade-bait purchase either. NOt many people want to even try this except the hardcore tickers. Maybe I’ll keep one for a year or two and see what happens.