I was using The Raffy Defense just the other day.

I actually turn into a bit of a social butterfly and try to talk everyone. And keep Santa from getting 86ed.

Naaman, you can practice that because people won't ever dare to mess with you. Average to small sized guys, like myself, need to work around other approaches I've never tried the skunk strategy, but it could be a good one to perfect.

Sad Day in Mudville... --

 

 

 

 

Yes, that is a 2013 - 4 roses bottle...

 

 

I was getting growlers ready for a Russian River Run tomorrow.. turned around and then foot caught the edge of the bottle.. 

 

Don't worry - this is one of my bottles not any of the distribution set...

 

 

Ed - my garage smells pretty good though...

Edited December 14, 201312 yr by mikeymad

Better have a drink to cheer yourself up, Mikey.

Sorry.  RIP Eclipse 4 Roses.  We hardly knew ye!

Edited December 14, 201312 yr by guzziguy

Where's the video of Mikey sopping it up with a sponge and wringing it into a glass?

Ouch

indeed Sr.. but I did contemplate slurping from the concrete floor for a second  

Debbie has seen someone do that with a dropped bottle of Dark Lord on DLD.

Yeah some dude dropped a Pappy Van Winkle Dark Lord in 2011 and slurped straight off the asphalt. There was a picture floating around on Beer Advocate for a long time afterwards.

If I was there, my beer douche meter would have just went off and killed itself. 

We do take every opportunity on DLD to warn people to hold the bottoms of their 4-packs as they tend to break.

Raffy, we need to go on a beer douche killing spree one of these days.

Speaking of DLD 2014, it falls on the same weekend as Axpona, I believe.  Anybody up for a ticket-buying blitz when they go up for sale?  I think it could be the right year for HC/DLD.  What say you?

Very interested, good idea Al! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd be interested. The Hampton Inn in Muenster already sold out for the weekend of the 26th I read.

Accommodations will not be an issue as people can stay at the Absorbine Inn or nearby establishments, and we can then caravan to FFF. What WILL be a problem is ticketing for the event. Traditionally, tickets go on sale online on St. Patrick's day, March 17th. Those tickets are not hard to get, they are impossible to get. Last year they were gone in approximately 2 minutes.

 

But, the last 2 years FFF have made tickets available for local folks on two Sunday's before the event. This is not a known quantity as they tweet in the morning that tickets will be on sale that day. And even this is not an easy thing, as the person buying the tickets gets their name on the tickets. So if I buy the limit (2 tickets), my name goes on them. I can bring one guest, but I have to show ID on DLD and thus have to be there. So to get people in on DLD we will need enough people here to buy tickets locally who are then willing to go to DLD and take one of you folks in as their guest.

 

Bottom line - I think Bryan and I need to see who we can assemble from the local pool to see if this could be pulled off.

Mass effort on the website will get us some. I got 2 of 120 Eclipse tix that were gone in 1.5 minutes. It can be done (with local help).

Yeah, going to have to hope for the best with the online sales. Organizing a local crew to cover guests will be really difficult as all my old college friends, sans Asian Dan, don't live in the area anymore. Allison will not be attending either, just wasn't her thing.

I'm going to try for both online and local sales at the brewpub. Would like multiple ticket scratch-offs for the barrel versions. If I succeed then I can cover at least two guests, albeit in different groups.

I've never had luck with online ticket sales of that sort, but I'll put it on my calendar.

Also, long shot, but text me on the local ticket day, and I'll see if I can drive out.

John - we can ride over to the local sale together if we're both free.

Ok, sounds good. We can make an event out of buying tickets for the event. 

I'm out for that weekend, tumbling state finals.