Euro Local Swap 2/2020 pairings and hauls

Box, or let’s say crate from @Erzengel arrived to my office on tuesday. Full of 22!!!, yes 22 beers. All according to my wishes and style prefferences, plus bonus as Haribo gummies and Milka spread. THANK YOU SO MUCH, GABRIEL :star_struck:

# Beer Style
1 Saar-Craft Roter Teufel Bitter - Premium
2 Brauhof Saar Hazelnut Porter Stout - Flavoured
3 Schnitzlbaumer Doppelbock hell Doppelbock
4 Krieger Floriani-Bock Doppelbock
5 Flötzinger Bräu Josefi Bock Doppelbock
6 Duckstein Witbier Witbier
7 Schneeeule Hot Irmi Berliner Weisse - Flavoured
8 Schneeeule Yasmin Berliner Weisse - Flavoured
9 Schneeeule Irmgard Berliner Weisse - Flavoured
10 Schneeeule Kennedy Berliner Weisse
11 Bruch Maibock Maibock
12 Bruch Festbock Dunkler Bock
13 Bruch St. Johanner Drittel Golden Ale
14 Bruch Nauwieser Drittel Brown Ale
15 Rappen Rappiator Doppelbock
16 Rappen Bock Heller Bock
17 Rappen Dunkle Weiße Dunkelweizen
18 Rappen Weizen Kristallweizen
19 Simon IPA IPA
20 Insel-Brauerei Strandgut Rauchbier
21 Ruhrtaler India Pale Ale IPA
22 Ruhrtaler Pale Ale APA

Once again, HUGE THANKS… :beers:

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Got a huge pack from @MonsterMagnet including bunch of great beer, some homebrews (which i hope will be also great :slight_smile: ), bottle opener coasters, a glass, stickers, hand sanitizer (by jopen), and letter explaining every beer! Huge thanks!


Thanks again!

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People, please send me please tracking number, I know about 2 delays. anstei and omhper.

Anstei just contacted me. He sent the box a while ago :wink:

@Cuso I´m sending next Monday. I prefer this way (I know deadline is today. Sorry) because if I contact today to my Courier, the box to @minutemat would get stuck in a warehouse all the weekend.

Mat is Ok with that.

Cheers.

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Parcel sent this afternoon to Praha. I cross finger :crossed_fingers:

I just picked up the final beers. Will post box first thing tomorrow.

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I haven’t sent the tracking to Cuso because I hoped that my package to Omhper will be delivered before the deadline (I sent the tracking info to Omhper tho)… it has now been sitting in some Swedish warehouse for more than a week… hope it gets delivered soon, because unboiled yeasty koduõlu+heatwave may end with some explosive results :smiley:

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Yesterday a huge box from Slovakia arrived. Slovakia is a big mystery to me, just 1 tick until now. It’s a very nice selection of my favourite styles. Many unknown breweries to me and some had matching coasters. Really looking forward tasting them. Thanks @Wendigo There was also a letter in the box with the list of beers and a personal note (not on the photo).
Also got a selection of local snacks. Note to myself: don’t unpack with kids around. They claimed the chips that evening and I was lucky to snag a few. The honey cake like sweets were sampled by the whole family. Sweet but delicious! I hid the rest :wink:
Here’s the list of beers, from left to right:

  1. General - Ipa 14 / IPA
  2. General - Imperial Sweet Stout 19 / Stout
  3. Herrenwald - Bruno / Brown Ale
  4. Hellstork - Sourise / Fruity sour
  5. Hellstork - Pink City / IPA
  6. Hellstork - LMV11: Blueberry Imperial Stout / Imperial Stout
  7. Liptovar - Beer Force One / IPA
  8. Unorthodox - El Mariachi / Gose
  9. Rye Island - Hard worker’s red IPA / Red IPA
  10. Kaltenecker - Chocolate Oatmeal Stout / Stout
  11. Simeon - Pav IPA / IPA
  12. Unorthodox - Magog / Fruity IPA
  13. Hellstork - Beat to Juice / Fruity IPA
  14. Berhet - Britke / NEIPA
  15. Hellstork - Tonka Wonka / Stout

Thanks again Marian! Awesome box!

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Snowcrash box for me is in Nivala, Finland but I wont be there until Friday so I will post haul pics not until Friday

Janne

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So in the end it arrived. Good news!

My box from Estonia should be ready for pickup tomorrow :slight_smile:
However I cannot do it until saturday, as I am away.

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Huge thanks to @simontomlinson for nice english package, including requested ales, classics and new craft! The letter included was also google translated to finnish (although google is not very good at finnish either :slight_smile: ). Looking forward for tasting, reviewing and the snacks (like my favorite: vinegar crips, which finns do not know how to do properly).

Beers (left to right, top to bottom):
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/salt-batik-tropical-pale-ale/824823/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/gipsy-hill-desert-haze/829653/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/wiper-and-true-pale-ale-kaleidoscope/419773/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/guinness-foreign-extra-stout/12910/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/wychwood-king-goblin-bottle/122623/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/greene-king-abbot-ale-filtered/1763/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brewdog-barnard-castle-eye-test/836672/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/timothy-taylor-s-landlord-bottle/4439/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/black-sheep-ale-bottle/235/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/the-kernel-export-india-porter/139683/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/marston-s-old-empire-bottle/24312/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mcewan-s-champion/9574/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/the-kernel-pale-ale-galaxy-summit/835581/

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I’m pleased you’re pleased.
Enjoy!

Yeah, but now Cuso’s box to me is being returned to him because of damages. I’m just having the worst luck with this swap, probably the last one for me. I really can do without all of this headache.

Too much complications this time. at least 2 boxes are on way back to senders, long delivery dates…

We need some good news, so let’s share this one.

This morning I received the box from @anstei

First of all thumbs up for recycling the box I sent him last February. Mother Earth and Little Greta are proud of you!

Secondly, thumbs up for fitting there 12 bottles (!!!) when I was able to put a max of 6. They came all in one piece so… great job!

Here you are the pictures

La Nébuleuse Stirling- Steam Beer - TOP50
La Nébuleuse Malt Capone - Imperial Porter
Trois Dames la Fraîcheur- Witbier/Blanche
Trois Dames Tropicale IPA- IPA
Officina della Birra Valona- Specialty Grain
Bier Factory Rapperswil Blackbier- Dry Stout
WhiteFrontier Pillows - Witbier/Blanche
WhiteFrontier Amor Fati - IPA
BFM Highway to Helles - Denim Edition- APA (which is apparently not out-of-production so maybe an admin wants to fix it)

Plus 3 beers from (I suppose) S&A Brewing which are not listed yet:
Another Galaxy - DDH Ipa
Cryo Me a River - DDH Ipa
Back to Piney - DDH Pale Ale

Everything according to my taste, brewed according to Reinheitsgebot and with a decent best before (all beers with BB from March 2021 on if I checked correctly).

Amazing box. Will leave a trade feedback soon :wink:

And a little bird told me that my box to taboada arrived safe and sound, even if the tracking link says it’s still in Lille (France). So it’s not only bad news.

Thanks @Cuso for organizing again!

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Glad it arrived safely - And faster than expected!

I was also suprised that BFM Denim is still being made, and I couldn’t resist sending it as it is one of the better Swiss beers. You identified all S&A beers correctly, but ever since bov and I (basically) stopped rating here, the Swiss database is not receiving that many updates anymore.

An array has arrived from Roman/@Koelschtrinker . I asked for some more crafty beers and that’s what I got. Sudden Death is a brewery I’ve thought looked interesting so it’s cool that there’s one from them. And the Sour Alt looks intriguing.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/phinyo-hefeweizen-classic/713461/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/phinyo-hefeweizen-blanc-weisse/713462/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/phinyo-hefeweizen-american-wheat/713463/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/phinyo-keller-pils/713464/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sudden-death-lockdown-lullaby/837284/ (DIPA)

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/zwiebels-sosator/841078/ (Doppelbock)

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/vulkan-ipa/221963/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kuehn-kunz-rosen-aufbruch-2018/665268/ (DIPA)

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kemker-aoltbeer-sour-alt/638564/

And a fruit jam/spread.

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I’m doing my best :slight_smile:

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