European Local Swap 3/2018 - pairings & hauls

I love that so much. :smiley:

I’ll get you one!

After some commotion, the box from @Benzai has arrived - or what’s left of it. :smiley:
A bottle broke and soaked the original box, so after it was in the depot for a day we started to investigate what happens now. They asked me if I still wanted it (Hell yeah!) and arranged for repackaging and delivery. I had the slight feeling that they were thinking of not doing that, because they didn’t know if I’d accept it. This morning, it arrived. In general pretty good service from DPD, they’ve repacked the remaining bottles in a new wine shipping box and delivered it today after telling me it might take until Monday.

What arrived is a pleasant collection of BeNe beers and ciders.

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Fortunately the ciders and the expensive DDVK montalcino survived and the total still amounts to the minimum required. Nonetheless I apologise. Should never have happened.

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The way I see it, you managed to ship two good boxes while overburdened with work. The breakage is unfortunate, but it can happen. No need for apologies.
And boy am I excited to open the Ciders!

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Tracking says that there was a delivery attempt but Theydon_Bois received no notification. So I started a investigation were the box is waiting for the receiver…

I think the same way. Shit happens. Important thing for me is that You managed to get some special requests despite of the high workload.

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@Taboada @herrklemann thanks for the kind words guys. Much appreciated.

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Yesterday received a great package from Japppp!


The following beautiful beers are shown on the picture above (from left to right):

Besides a nice and good description there were also licorice and a local delicacy.

Thank you very much Japppp for this great selection!

Cheers Tom

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My parcel from @geiserich in Austria arrived today … I’ll hopefully post a picture of the haul tonight depending on what time I get in from my Friday pub crawl !

@japppp parcel headed off to sunny Finland mid morning.

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Awesome!

Here’s my Austrian haul many thanks to @geiserich

He managed to find me a new CDA and a new DIPA plus 10 other new ticks with quite a few new breweries thrown in …

After a trip to Graz in the summer, and a box from @herrklemann Austria is about to overtake Australia in my top rated countries and it will be 16 short of being my 19th country for 100 rates once I’ve slayed the below !

Many thanks Michael !

Oh … and the plastic bottle in the back ground (left side) is truffle oil balsamic vinegar glaze … I should have moved that off the table … looks like a dodgy hand bottle of beer !

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So @MonsterMagnet is my parcel to @japppp the last one out there now?

Collected yesterday morning by courier … present status is ‘sorted at offshore gateway’ … delivery no later than 02/11/18.

There are two parcels on the road (in the right direction), one parcel still to be sent (soon), two have been or are being returned, three more have been delivered and have not been posted yet (come on people, it doesn’t take much of an effort to post your haul!)

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Please don’t forget to post your hauls @RW80, @anstei, @jinroh.

@Mister_Li sent me a box made with stunning thoughtfulness, with many beers which I was looking for! Some Flügge, a Gänstaller, sours and smoked but also hoppy stuff. Many thanks!

I couldn’t quite figure out what the two blue cans are though, can you help me with those?

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@anstei Nice to see that all beers arrived well, the two blue cans are
Chengdu Harvest Belgian Wit
NBeer Beijing Gose Modern
Cheers!

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And there is finally the picture of the nice box I received from Koelschtrinker,with 9 german beers and an Egyptian malt liquor

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Box from anstei!

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/blackwell-minigolf-pale-ale/653764/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/blackwell-tannenbaum-effekt-iv/636826/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/blackwell-pale-ale/653755/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bier-factory-rapperswil-archie/377356/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bier-factory-rapperswil-oh-ipa/439255/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/hoppy-people-pornstar/431997/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brewdaz-el-stopfer-passion/661899/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/storm-and-anchor-green-knuckles/616678/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bfm-441-saison-rhubarb-2018/649122/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brausyndikat-india-pale-ale-citra/582093/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/trois-dames-la-pasionaria-double-ipa/127472/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/dr-brauwolf-ddh-neipa/670432/ (not sure about this one)

Many new breweries and lots of hoppy ipas… which is good because I love ipas and that’s what I was asking for. Box was great and REUSABLE!

Janne

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Just got this awesome box from @jinroh, containing a grand total of 18 different beers from Estonia and Japan, plus some Japanese snacks and a textile poster(?). Great and very interesting selection of styles according to my preferences and the Pohjala Pime Öö Islay BA has been a huge want of mine for a while now. Plus the Happoshu is a really difficult style tick to get. Thanks a lot for the great box :smiley:!

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kirin-nodogoshi/46153/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/suntory-kin-mugi/74686/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/uchu-dark-matter-ipa/668105/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ise-kadoya-culmination-neko-nihiki/513980/
No Idea what the one in the middle is
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/shiga-kogen-new-engi-land-ipa/524868/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/uchu-brewing-big-bang-ipa/552481/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/uchu-venus-ale/668100/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kaebliku-raspise/487561/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lehe-punane-ja-must/663155/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tanker-no-niin/661032/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pohjala-szechuan-baenger/650731/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pohjala-cellar-series-pime-oeoe-islay-ba/531526/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pohjala-leevike/651055/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/puehaste-black-swan/665811/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/saue-vaarika-milkshake/666151/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tanker-sauna-session/318971/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sori-ensemble-four-ddh-amarillo-and-citra-dipa/657036/

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