12 Beers of Christmas 2019 Edition

[fourfarthing]

Oh, maybe I should rework my label with Mrs. Clause and a Chippendale’s dancer or three, Santa must be gone a while when his deliveries are getting done. Carry on, just remember guys, there are women on the forum too.

You should totally do this.

 

[TBC]

Let’s do this. @satph and I are combo shipping.

are we shipping to one of you or both?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You should totally do this.

 

[jack13]

You will like the boxes. They are very nifty. I have the 3-bottle boxes and when I sent the 12BOC beers I just taped two of them together. Yea, don't use SNPA bottles for shipping (I think that is what I used). Dogfish bottles are pretty stout, I think I remember.

Got the boxes. Yep, pretty cool.

And sure enough, Dogfish bottles are on the high end of bottle weights, at least in my assorted bottle stash. Ranged from 185g to 205g. Dogfish was about 200 even.

Thought I'd use my heavier bottles for shipping, assuming heavier = thicker glass = less likely to break.

 

[chrisgood1]

Got the west Gingerbread Ale all bottled up tonight now just need labels. I really don't like to bottle but it's worth it sometimes.

 

[Jtk78]

Got the west Gingerbread Ale all bottled up tonight now just need labels. I really don't like to bottle but it's worth it sometimes. View attachment 653716View attachment 653717

Ironically enough I bottled the East Gingerbread Ale today as well. I haven't bottled a batch in at least 2 years, although I also have a Belgian Dubbel that im going to bottle tomorrow.

 

[fourfarthing]

are we shipping to one of you or both?

Let me discuss with him, wouldn't be bad to save some funds here.

 

[satph]

Let me discuss with him, wouldn't be bad to save some funds here.

We can work that out.

 

[grampamark]

Brewing a Porter and decided to sample the Abbey Weizen. It might be more of a high gravity lawnmower beer than a holiday beer but it sure tastes good.

 

[TBC]

We can work that out.

@fourfarthing @satph let me know where you want it shipped and I’ll add that to the message I’m going to send

 

[fourfarthing]

@fourfarthing @satph let me know where you want it shipped and I’ll add that to the message I’m going to send

Send to me and I will take care of it.

 

[TwistedGray]

Bottles have been labeled

 

[jack13]

Just bottled Honey Ginger IPA!

If these end up oxidized I'm going to be really pissed.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

East Coast Spiced Dunkel Wiezenbock has been bottle primed today. 9.6 ABV winter warmer indeed.

 

[gromitdj]

For those of you shipping to the West Coast group, the only 2 that are meeting up for sure in So Cal is myself and @jerbrew , so if you can get them together to ship to one of us before we meet up on the 8th of December, feel free to reach out to one of us to let it be known.

Also, it is likely that Jerbrew and I will be splitting our shipping so that we ship half as many packages, and your shipment will be coming from one of us.

Cheers,

 

[Jtk78]

Did the label design today for the East coast gingerbread brown. Should be ready to send out the week of Dec. 8th.

12 Beers of Christmas 2019 label design

• Jtk78
• Nov 29, 2019

 

[tochsner]

I dropped the "Cranberry Lambicky" for the West group off at FedEx this morning. Most of you should get it this week weather permitting.

Cheers!

 

[TwistedGray]

Great! I need packaging materials : )

 

[jack13]

This is the first time I've added yeast at bottling. Anyone have any experience with this? Most importantly how long carbonation took?

Here are the specs:

-Bottled 11/24
-4.5 gallons
-5g champagne yeast
-105g priming sugar (cane sugar)
-9.2% ABV
-conditioning/carbing at 70 F

 

[TBC]

FedEx picked up all of the east coast spiced bourbon stout today. I’m curious to see which New Yorker receives their box first since almost all of the boxes were heading there.

 

[Jtk78]

FedEx picked up all of the east coast spiced bourbon stout today. I’m curious to see which New Yorker receives their box first since almost all of the boxes were heading there.

I got an email yesterday saying the Illinois delivery is supposed to be here Thursday. Below screenshot is from just a few minutes ago.

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• Jtk78
• Dec 3, 2019

 

[TBC]

I got an email yesterday saying the Illinois delivery is supposed to be here Thursday. Below screenshot is from just a few minutes ago.

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• Jtk78
• Dec 3, 2019

I’m curious how you do found that since I didn’t send the tracking info to everyone. Also if your getting it Thursday then someone or everyone from NY should be tomorrow!

 

[fourfarthing]

I’m curious how you do found that since I didn’t send the tracking info to everyone. Also if your getting it Thursday then someone or everyone from NY should be tomorrow!

I believe I will get it tomorrow.

Fedex let’s you automatically get notifications if something is shipped to you.

 

[TBC]

I believe I will get it tomorrow.

Fedex let’s you automatically get notifications if something is shipped to you.

I didn’t realize that. I’ll have to setup my account for that. Usually I just wait for a package to arrive or manually enter the tracking number when I receive it.

 

[Jtk78]

I didn’t realize that. I’ll have to setup my account for that. Usually I just wait for a package to arrive or manually enter the tracking number when I receive it.

I knew my profile was setup this way, but when I got the email I couldn't figure out who was sending me something. It wasn't until this morning it dawned on me it was for this.

 

[TwistedGray]

Could someone much brighter than me confirm the ship-to list for the West Coast is:
@gromitdj
@Yeroc
@bradccook
@Jmarsh544
@anotherbeerplease
@jerbrew
@jack13
@tochsner
@chrisgood1
@TwistedGray
@grampamark

I believe that stansold dropped out, correct? That means we're shipping to 10 other people (obviously not ourselves).

 

[grampamark]

Could someone much brighter than me confirm the ship-to list for the West Coast is:
@gromitdj
@Yeroc
@bradccook
@Jmarsh544
@anotherbeerplease
@jerbrew
@jack13
@tochsner
@chrisgood1
@TwistedGray
@grampamark

I believe that stansold dropped out, correct? That means we're shipping to 10 other people (obviously not ourselves).

Those are the names that were in the email Tony sent out a week, or so, ago.

 

[TwistedGray]

Those are the names that were in the email Tony sent out a week, or so, ago.

Correct, and Stansold's name was included but without any details. So I think he's not included in this year's exchange; however, I didn't want to make any assumptions.

 

[grampamark]

Correct, and Stansold's name was included but without any details. So I think he's not included in this year's exchange; however, I didn't want to make any assumptions.

Right. My understanding is that’s why the email didn’t include his contact info.

 

[passedpawn]

I'm in next year. I miss this thing.