Silentdrinker
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I don't consider myself a lucky person; however, when it comes to beer/homebrewing, I can't deny I'm probably one of the luckiest "SOBs" around.
Every time I tell my friends about a deal/score, they always say: dude, only you...
Today my fiancé's dad, who works for a company that buy/sells commercial restaurant kitchen equipment. Gives me a 1/6 sanke keg. They've gotten corny kegs and CO2 tanks before, and he's given them to me because they don't deal in that kind of stuff. Anyway, I go to pick it up. It's FULL. I think it's coors or bud, but I was hoping for an ipa. I get it home and see a small sticker on it. He gave me a $120 full keg of:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/610/2751/
I have so many stories like this, like the time Otto from Schlafly's hand delivered (he actually flew from St. Louis to Portland, Or) two 6 packs of their pumpkin ale. He actually managed to pack them with his luggage. I had emailed him asking some tips. My fiancé loves pumpkin and I managed to get theirs in a trade. It's not distributed here, so I wanted to recreate it. He happened to be coming into pdx the following day and called me when he got to the airport. Coolest thing ever!
A couple months ago I met the cellar manager at Elysian while in Tacoma. He hooks me up with thirteen 22oz (most dragons tooth stout) and a case plus some extra bottles of 12oz bottles (most of those were space dust IPA)
Just this last weekend I go out of town for my uncles funeral. I find out his brother is a home brewer. While at his house, he shows me a bunch of "corny kegs" he didn't want and had no idea what to do with them... He gave them to me. There was like 10. They are hoff-Steven and D coupler cornelius kegs. The D coupler ones were done by SABCO as "pub kegs" the hoff-Stevens look like they were manufactured that way. I haven't gotten much info about them though.
Those were only a fragment of the crazy things I've gotten... Most of them are insane deals I've come across for homebrew gear. Like a 20 gallon Blichmann boil maker with false bottom for $200. A 15 gallon boilermaker with false bottom AND 14.5 Blichmann conical FREE. A large $500+ rock star fridge for $50 (in excellent shape) it's now my ferment chamber.... I can seriously can go on.
The brew gods much love me.
Every time I tell my friends about a deal/score, they always say: dude, only you...
Today my fiancé's dad, who works for a company that buy/sells commercial restaurant kitchen equipment. Gives me a 1/6 sanke keg. They've gotten corny kegs and CO2 tanks before, and he's given them to me because they don't deal in that kind of stuff. Anyway, I go to pick it up. It's FULL. I think it's coors or bud, but I was hoping for an ipa. I get it home and see a small sticker on it. He gave me a $120 full keg of:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/610/2751/
I have so many stories like this, like the time Otto from Schlafly's hand delivered (he actually flew from St. Louis to Portland, Or) two 6 packs of their pumpkin ale. He actually managed to pack them with his luggage. I had emailed him asking some tips. My fiancé loves pumpkin and I managed to get theirs in a trade. It's not distributed here, so I wanted to recreate it. He happened to be coming into pdx the following day and called me when he got to the airport. Coolest thing ever!
A couple months ago I met the cellar manager at Elysian while in Tacoma. He hooks me up with thirteen 22oz (most dragons tooth stout) and a case plus some extra bottles of 12oz bottles (most of those were space dust IPA)
Just this last weekend I go out of town for my uncles funeral. I find out his brother is a home brewer. While at his house, he shows me a bunch of "corny kegs" he didn't want and had no idea what to do with them... He gave them to me. There was like 10. They are hoff-Steven and D coupler cornelius kegs. The D coupler ones were done by SABCO as "pub kegs" the hoff-Stevens look like they were manufactured that way. I haven't gotten much info about them though.
Those were only a fragment of the crazy things I've gotten... Most of them are insane deals I've come across for homebrew gear. Like a 20 gallon Blichmann boil maker with false bottom for $200. A 15 gallon boilermaker with false bottom AND 14.5 Blichmann conical FREE. A large $500+ rock star fridge for $50 (in excellent shape) it's now my ferment chamber.... I can seriously can go on.
The brew gods much love me.