This Is Happening VIII (Now With No Notice!) - Saturday, October 18th

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When: Saturday, October 18th, 12:30PM (NOT NOON, gawd. SRSLY. NO BEER OPENED BEFORE 12:30. STOP COMING EARLY IF YOU AREN'T ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO IS SUPPOSED TO SET UP.)
Where: Top Hops Beer Shop, 94 Orchard St. (at Delancey).
How to get there: F/M/J/Z to Delancey-Essex St., B/D to Grand St.
What to do: "Just bring 2 or 3 cool bottles of beer that we can't all easily get in NYC and its surrounding areas. That's all there is to it. Oh and to have a good time and don't be a dick." GuisseppeFranco
The venue: Top Hops is a bottle shop and growler store. A BeerMenus of their growler fills and Belgian bottles is located here: http://www.beermenus.com/places/3846-top-hops-beer-shop. Please respect the venue, and buy some bottles or a growler fill. You can bring your own growlers. Also, whoever may be working that day aside from Ted will be working hard setting us up with tons of clean tasting glasses and taking our used ones while also pouring draft beer and running the cash register for bottles for other customers. Please bring cash to tip them yourself or to participate in a tip pool.
Food?: Top Hops does not serve food aside from snacks such as olives, jerky, meat/cheese plates and big sad little big pretzels served hot from the oven!! Please eat beforehand or plan to leave to eat. Space is at a premium, so please do not order food for delivery or bring large/conspicuous food. Additionally, please do not bring your own snacks that are sold in the store (cheese, jerky, pretzels, etc.).
Limit: There will be a limit enforced at 40 due to space concerns by Ted's request. Please do not sign up if you are not certain you are attending, and if you learn that you cannot attend, please delete the row from the spreadsheet and the BA calendar so others may take your place. If you plan to bring friends or others, indicate that on the spreadsheet. If there are 40 signed up, please place your name on the alternates list.
Drunkenness and Bad Behavior: Please know your limits with regard to alcohol consumption and drink plenty of water alongside your beer. In the past, some people have gotten a bit too intoxicated due to overconsumption of high-ABV beer. Please avoid drinking to the point you are vomiting, knocking a ton of glasses on the floor because you can't stand, or getting kicked out of the bar for any other reason.

Sign up!: Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r7WKgGp-bUkKeC6Xr1O3vXBuS0GQBcaBdhEQqqSza2c/edit?usp=sharing

Any questions, please ask in this thread, or via BM to franch.

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I've got a wedding that day. I'll have to see if I can make the beginning of this.
 
I'm in! Will try to stop by for a few hours and crack a bottle or two. Cheers
 
I'll bring sticky labels. Running low on the sharpies at work so if someone can cover, that would rock.
 
Looks like I keep my streak intact of only making the odd numbered Happenings :(
 
Such an awesome chill afternoon of beer- Thanks guys!!

I agree with the chill afternoon comment, this time around was very laid back as compared to some.

My official list, at least what I remembered to write down.

Oskar Blues Rum Ten Fidy
Oskar Blues Makers Mark Ten Fidy
The Bruery Sucre (Tequila)
The Bruery Sucre (Wine)
NEBCO Gandhi Bot
De Garde Saison Desay
CCB Hunahpu
Cascade Noyaux
Jacks Abbys PBJ
NoDa Hop Drop n' Roll
Fremont BBA Dark Star
Kuhnhenn TRIPA
Bell's Venus
Half Acre/Three Floyds Anicca
Kane Barrel Aged 365
Tired Hands Pope Lick Monster
Bissell Brothers The Substance
Stillwater/Westbrook Gose Gone Wild
The Alchemist Focal Banger
Three Floyds Dark Lord
Three Floyds Brandy Dark Lord
Tree House Curiosity 9
Upland Strawberry Lambic
Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla
The Bruery Grey Monday
CCB BA Big Sound
The Bruery Otiose
Hill Farmstead Florence

Cheers!
 
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Echoed from above. That was fantastic! Appreciate everyone who helped set it up, franch and ceight, and Ted for hosting us. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one!

Best of the day for me (that I can remember) were the Anna, Makers Ten Fidy, Lucybelle and of course the Double Andy.

Thanks again!
 
the list:
founders - bolt cutter (!!! no longer ft bolt cutter!)
fiftyfifty - elijah craig 12 2k13
three floyds - the earl of biggleswade
ale apothecary - sahati
hill farmstead - e.
bruery - sucre (tequila)
oskar blues - ten fidy (appleton rum barrel aged crowler[!!])
cantillon - vigneronne 2k8 (luv u Roze )
de garde - rougie
backacre - sour golden ale b3
jack's abby - pb&j framinghammer
schramm's - blackberry mead
jack's abby - cocoa-nut framinghammer
noda - hop drop n roll
kuhnhenn - TRIPA
de garde - saison desay b1
bell's - venus
jester king - hibernal dichotomous
jester king - provenance
vanessa's dumplings - ******* who brought smelly dumplings into the store
oskar blues - ten fidy (maker's mark barrel aged crowler[!!!!!!!!!!])
apex ales - double andy
allagash - coolship resurgam 2k14
foothills - sexual chocolate 2k14
jack's abby - vanilla framinghammer
upland - strawberry lambic
tree house - curiosity nine
hill farmstead - anna
goose island - bourbon county vanilla brand stout (thx ted)
sante adarius - lucybelle b3
casey brewing and blending - fruit stand blackberry
bruery - sucre (madeira)
bruery - otiose
bruery - grey monday 2k14
sloop - sauer peach
half acre - anicca
upland - blackberry lambic
mikkeller - black hole barrel aged cognac
upland - raspberry lambic
bruery - chocolate rain 2k13
de garde - imperial hop bu
grassroots - convivial suarez 8/2k14
bruery - black tuesday 2k13
three floyds - dark lord 2k12
lawson's - lost meadow cider 2k11
bruery - smooth criminal

sapporo premium beer tallboys - at sing sing karaoke.

the thoughts:

this was a first for many things in the This Is Happening series, such as:
two albinos
two toilets
only promoted on forums of talkbeer
like six days of notice

and it was widely praised during the event as one of the best ever. i can't promise two albinos every time, but everything else is happening again. except Quackus bringing ****ing smelly ass dumplings into top hops. that better not happen again. christ.
 
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