I ran down to the local Cost Plus Imports, and picked up few dozen pint glasses that have the logos from a number of micro breweries, primarily west coast ones. Anyway, the glasses are about three bucks each. You can get plain pint glasses for two bucks each. Two glasses, and a six pack, and you have not put yourself in the poor house.
What you have given them is a gift that you put your heart into making. You are also showing them the proper procedure by which to peruse the pleasures of the elegant elixir that you so craftily concocted.
This covers all of the guys in the family, and a few of the women. For the rest of the women, my wife makes up more "girlie" gift baskets.
Next year I am going to do "beer t-shirts".
There is a company out of Hawaii that makes commercial t-shirts and sweatshirts, I own a few of them. The find unusual ways to dye the shirts. I have one dark grey sweatshirt that was dyed with lava rock from. Another is a deep red color, from some of the soil over there, but I don't have one of those. My favorite one so far, and I own one of these, was dyed a great golden color with beer from one of the micro breweries over in Hawaii. I want to pick up some good heavy duty white t-shirts, and then dye them with different batches of my beer. What does a hefe shirt look like? How about an Edmund Fitzgerald tank top? Will my dunkleweizen look as good as it tastes? Only time will tell.
