Trading Beer is awesome.

Lots of stuff I can't get and lots of stuff that can't be had on the west coast. So here is the last trade I just made with a west coaster.

What I shipped.
2 - Bells Two Hearted
2 - Bells Hopslam
2 - Bells Batch 9000
1 - Bells Consecrator Dopplebock
2 - Founders Breakfast Stouts
1 - Founders Double trouble
1 - Bells Expedition Stout
3 - Founders KBS's

And this is what I got today.
2-Port Brewing Old Viscosity
1-Green Flash IIPA
1-Russian River Pliny The Elder
1-Deschutes The Abyss 2009 Reserve
1-Deschutes Black Butte XX1 21st Birthday reserve
1-Russian River - Damnation 750ml
1-Old Rasputin
1-Deschutes red Chair NWPA
1-Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA

I've only had the RIS and it was very good.

Soon you'll have so much beer from trading you need to set up a tasting.



This isn't even all the imperial stouts for the tasting.

In this photo:
De Struise Black Albert
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout (2008)*
New England Brewing Imperial Stout Trooper (2009)
Portsmouth Kate the Great (2010)
Three Floyds Dark Lord (2007)
Cigar City Barrel Aged 110k+OT IRIS*
Brooklyn Black Ops (2009)
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti (2007)*
North Coast Old Rasputin XII Anniversary*
Smuttynose Imperial Stout (2009)*
Terrapin The Dark Side*
Bell's Batch 9000
Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout (2010)

*= I got it locally, everything else I traded for.

Let me know if you have a hook up for Dark Lord. I can't get it anywhere.
I've still got a ton of other stuff from trades but I don't have such a concentrated selection like that. Thats awesome and imperial stouts are my bread and butter!

There are about 70 other bottles in my cellar that aren't stouts and I've traded for a good number of them. I don't have a Dark Lord 2010 lined up yet, if I can get one me and a friend will be doing a 07-10 vertical.

I love imperial stouts, as does my wife. The other half of the tasting includes more run of the mill stouts (Ten Fidy, Terrapin Wake-and-Bake, Founders Imperial Stout) as well as some more rare bottles like Surly Darkness, Alesmith Speedway Stout, FiftyFifty Eclipse, Bell's Batch 7000, and maybe a Midnight Sun imperial stout (not M, unfortunately.)