I'd kill for some Boulevard Wheat out here but they don't have distribution unless I head back to NE.

A beer with that name I gotta try.

We briefly discussed it way back in the early stages of this thread and concluded that it's not legal. Speaking for Texas, we can get wine in the mail but not beer. (Go figure.)

Ah, weird. I know the ratebeer.com community does it all the time - I guess it's just a "just put it in a brown box and send it" kind of policy.

Yeah, here's the article:
http://www.ratebeer.com/Story.asp?StoryID=174

Yeah. If they could make the trade logs sit up in court and anybody actually cared, some of those guys could have a pretty massive pile of minor counts to face down. Shipping itself isn't a big enough crime for anybody to actually care, but I bet the amount of shipping over time could get somebody properly boned if a bored desk jockey or somebody with vendetta came along. Everybody likes stacked charges, because they're easily painted as habitual and take less effort to nail.

Nobody tends to sting on those things or otherwise bother with it, because it's a low-rank mail crime and fuck paperwork. The process is streamlined enough that it's easily handled without prosecution in event of discovery, anyway. All shippers reserve the right to seize shipments of alcohol without notification and dispose of them at their own discretion if they choose not to notify the authorities. If it gets X-rayed or otherwise discovered along the way, grats on making some floor monkey's day with free beer and that's about it.

It's like cheating a parking meter or peeing on a church. They're not generally going to ream you if you get caught. It's one of the things that simply gets filed away or that they're happy to log down and let you continue doing until they actually need to use it against you for something more serious.

Plenty of people do it, but I've never seen it worth the bother. I've had excellent beer all over the world and not one of them was worth ridiculous shipping fees tacked onto the already pricey costs. As to his quote, here:

Knowing or not, you'd still be screwed if somebody found out and cared enough to want your ass over it. Low chance, but as with women in the states; "I thought they were legal age" usually won't cut it if you get caught up in that. You were already breaking a law with full knowledge by sending it out in the first place.

This is my personal reason. I could easily pick people I know not to be minors, and the whole 'mail fraud' thing isn't that scary to me, but I'm a cheap bastard who already has several, favorite beers available right down the street.

Some poor guy got killed by beer at Fat Tire:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...71/detail.html

While I was in Ohio, I got a chance to try a couple of different Great Lakes products. They were for the most part unremarkable but drinkable, but the Edmund Fitzgerald Porter was surprisingly good and was pretty much on par with Rogue or other high-end porters.

I have no idea how my local grocery store ended up with it, but I picked up a 6-pack of the Victory Hop Devil a couple days ago. Being in the Pacific NW, I wouldn't epect a PA brewery's products to make it here.

Excellent beer for hop lovers, comparable to the Dogfish Head 90-minute. I'd say it's not quite *as* hoppy, but comparable. Now to find the manager in charge of beer distribution and tell him he's doing a good job .

My local chain grocery store just started carrying New Belgium Fat Tire and their seasonal beer (currently Sunshine) :P I usually don't drink a lot of beer but I always make sure I have som Fat Tire in the fridge for a weekend meal. Would love to try their 1584 brew given the glowing reviews people in this thread have given it, but I haven't had any success finding that locally here in the SF Bay Area, CA.