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[PRIME] SchlitzKrieg Curated Seattle Beer Tour - Got Photos?

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    And with that, Team Amber is full!

    Toldja Amber was best.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Okay Everybody! The passports are being printed, and the achievement prizes have been bought-en. When choosing your team, remember that the winning team with the most points will get SchlitzKrieg Tshirts, so if you're on a team with people leaving early you might have to work extra hard to get those winning points.

    Prizes:
    -SchlitzKrieg Bottle Openers and Keychains
    -Baaaaar Towel from the Black Sheep Brewery in the UK

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    -Cobalt Blue Fliptop Liter Bottle
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    Moleskin Beer Journal, complete with pages for recipes, tasting notes, and addresses

    Reminder to the folks below to pick your team!
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    @Hybrys
    @Irikah

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  • AltDeleteAltDelete Registered User regular
    2 for Team Porter please!

  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    AltDelete wrote: »
    2 for Team Porter please!

    Oh No! There's only one spot left on Team Porter! What will you do?

    You might have to Split the Party. Or go Pilsner. In my book they're equally inadvisable. :P

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  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    PILS-NER! PILS-NER!

    Pilsners are great for hot summer days which I'm hoping Monday will be (well, not TOO hot).

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  • JobiwanKenobiJobiwanKenobi Registered User regular
    Team Pilsner is inadvisable, eh? Why is that? Are your taste buds unable to repel refreshment of that magnitude?



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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    Team Pilsner is the best team to be in!

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Bump! We've had a cancellation and there is one ticket available. Please post here if you want it. First come, first served and be sure to read the info in the OP. It's not a cheap tour but it's going to be a lot of fun and you'll get to see a lot of the area outside of Seattle.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    And again. There are now 2.5 tickets available.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Clarification: 2.5 tickets means that there are 2 full tickets available, and one partial ticket available for the evening only.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    One all-day ticket and one evening-only ticket are still available!

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  • AltDeleteAltDelete Registered User regular
    Team Pilsner for me and my plus one!

    She prefers to go by "Sarah", but whatever ^_^

  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Done

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  • AltDeleteAltDelete Registered User regular
    Sweet! See you all bright and early

  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    We're On our way! If you missed the bus, we'll miss you as we drink your beer :(

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    So the first SchlitzKrieg is over. Many, many thanks to everyone who came, everyone who donated their ticket money to Child's Play if they missed it, and to everyone who helped out. This was a big, ambitious undertaking that could not have worked without you.

    Special shutouts to ...

    @courtneyj for making all the prize swag AND the passports when she was sick and not sure she'd even be able to come, and Jason for being her wingman.

    @JobiWanKenobi for bearing with me during the months of planning, contributing his own money when the budget ran out, helping with the food and lunch, and especially for being my wingman.

    @VespaChica for generously giving up one of her weekend days for an all-day scouting mission while we located all the breweries and took vigorous notes on driving directions.

    The tour was Amazing, Fun, and Exhausting, in that order. It was really long, and won't be that long again except by special request. You probably never thought you'd hear yourself say, " I'm sick of drinking beer," so all of you who stuck with it and survived the endurance round at the end will be getting a special something. I don't know what yet, but you earned it.

    Please feel free to post photos (except of me), stories or suggestions for next year!

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  • KhadourKhadour Dinosaur Cupcake Hillsboro, ORRegistered User regular
    Glad to hear it was a success, and sorry again that I couldn't make it out for it! I'd be interested in hearing your lessons learned, and possibly doing something similar for East . . .

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Two steins were left on the bus. PM me if they're yours.

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  • courtneyjcourtneyj Newcastle, WARegistered User regular
    The tour was such a great time, even though I only got to do a third of it. Thanks so much for organizing such a fun day.

  • vonniedavonnieda Registered User new member
    Thanks a ton for putting this together. Even though we had to leave early, I still had a blast! Looking forward to doing it again :)

  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    @LexiconGrrl and @JobiWanKenobi rule at lots of things. This was no exception. Thank you so much for the organization and food! That blt salad ruled. Thank you, @courtneyj for making the stuff - it was so awesome!!!

    I could not drink the last 3.5 beers. Just could not do it. Ugh. But it was so worth going to and SO MUCH fun - especially the Kitsap leg! Those guys are super awesome.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
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    The Most Excellent beer hat given to me by Gary at Silver City. I still need to figure out how to make it work without squealing.

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  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    Hey, I left before the official announcement was made. Which team won for the most achievements?

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Pilsner by 140 points.

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  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!! Pils-ner! Pils-ner! Pils-ner!

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  • VanVagabondVanVagabond NorthWestern BC, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Awesome time, thanks so much again to everyone involved in putting it together and making it so amazing! Suggestions were asked for, but the only thing I've been able to think of so far is maybe to change the team names? That they were named after different kinds of beers lead a number of us to think that we were making a choice that would somehow be relevant to what we'd be drinking on the tour. Teams Lederhosen, Wienerschnitzel, and.. David Hasslehoff? I dunno.. But I thought the acheivements metagame was a stroke of brilliance and very fun, and totally would have hopped onto another team at the start if I had realized I wouldn't have to give up any delicious dark beer in doing so!

  • QuickSnapQuickSnap Professional Beard Grower Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Team Porter, bitches!

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited September 2012
    QuickSnap wrote: »
    Team Porter, bitches!

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    Damn right! Jeff giving Mark bunny ears makes that photo.

    I'm still decompressing/unpacking from the awesome that was PAX and this tour. Must thank Lexi, Courtney, JobiWan, etc for putting this awesome thing together, and may next year's kick even more ass.

    I think for next year, we must plan on abducting more brewers, as brinhing along Jeff and his dad to Sound (with an epic mini game of CAH), followed by adding Mark to the fray for lunch at the Pig was fantastic.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Adam at Valholl sent me some of the photos he took:

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    Valholl laughing at the swath of destruction we left.

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    The SchlitzKrieg Bus, leaving Valholl with a Kidnapped Jeff "The Unofficial Mayor of Poulsbo" Holcomb inside, entertaining everyone.

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    It was a beautiful day on the ferry!

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    End of endurance round - food is gone but the beer remains. So much beer.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    It's ironic that I have more time to post this stuff after the tour is over but, it happens.

    Here's our route:
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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Wait - I just got an email from the Pig. WHO GOT JEFF TO TAKE A PICTURE OF DAVE'S ASS?!

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  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    Ummm...I can't remember but I think it might be Jeremy Renner's (not his real name) wife. THAT was effing priceless. I didn't see the resulting photo but I saw it happen! And it was all Jeff's idea, FWIW.

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    OMG. Sometimes being a coordinator sucks. I missed the whole thing.

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  • vespachicavespachica SeattleRegistered User regular
    You were doing the lunch thing. It was definitely while some of us were eating. It certainly didn't put me off my appetite. *cough*

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    ROFLMAO.

    EDIT:
    Shawna, if you're reading this, the ladies (and possibly Jeff, I'm not sure which way his pendulum swings; I didn't ask him) mean to compliment you in the most respectful way, because we're all sisters. Let's face it: your hubby is Hawt. Well Done!

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  • JobiwanKenobiJobiwanKenobi Registered User regular
    Just realized that the route is a giant "a" is for alchoholism... (Once you see it, you can't un-see it... kinda like Dave's ass apparently.)



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  • SwordMageSwordMage Registered User regular
    I *so* should have done this...

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  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    ...the only thing I've been able to think of so far is maybe to change the team names? That they were named after different kinds of beers lead a number of us to think that we were making a choice that would somehow be relevant to what we'd be drinking on the tour. Teams Lederhosen, Wienerschnitzel, and.. David Hasslehoff?...

    That's a really good suggestion. It didn't occur to me that the team names could be interpreted like that but yeah, I'd be up for Team Hoff next year.

    EDIT: How about Team Klaus?
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  • VanVagabondVanVagabond NorthWestern BC, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Thought of another thing! I was at the back of the bus, and tried to be good about passing up water or snacks whenever someone asked, but maybe people would have been better about eating and drinking along the way if some of the snacks and a flat of water had been kept further front as well? And a list of what's available would be cool too, I don't even know what all we had for food! Mostly I think the water acheivements handled the hydration issue very well, but it's another thought :]

  • LexiconGrrlLexiconGrrl Registered User regular
    Also good ideas. I think Bob ate most of the Moon Pies.

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