Please Help Getting beers to Massachusets

[jose aguirre]

Please Help
I have two sons going to medical school in Boston. In order to watch the Cowboys play, they need Lone Star and Shiner Bock, but I can not seem to find anybody that carries them so I can Order some to be delivered to them.
I have tried just about everything, to no avail.
I keep hearing that we have to personally carry them from South Texas to Boston.
Is that correct? Thanks
Jose Aguirre

[Beaver]

Here are some threads about ordering beer on-line:

http://www.realbeer.com/discussions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4746

http://www.realbeer.com/discussions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3189

[MeridianFC]

Originally posted by jose aguirre
In order to watch the Cowboys play, they need Lone Star and Shiner Bock,

To watch the Cowboys play they'd need somthing harder than that. I'd think morphine. ;)

I'll buzz my friend up in Beantown and see does he know of any place that carries those "beers".

[b3s]

from the beer traders survival manual:

go to your local paint store, purchase some adult malt beverage. go to ups store, acquire a roll of bubble wrap, a bag of styrofoam peanuts, and a box that will contain all ingredients, and one roll of tape. wrap each bottle in bubble wrap, tape shut. assemble box. dump some peanuts into the bottom of the box, gently place with loving care said wrapped adult malt beverages, add more peanuts, repeat until box full (make sure last layer is peanuts). enclose box with tape. take full box to ups store, fill out an address label. under contents write "cookies from mom". when asked, stare straight at the counter person and say "they're really fond of cookies."

[mikemac]

Good tip on the shipping. My wife and I shipped some beer from North Dakota back to Mass recently, and we went to the UPS Store, where the girl at the counter told us she had recently learned after working there for a year that shipping alcohol out of ND without a permit was illegal.

She looked the other way, however, and simply had us write "fragile - glassware" on the contents. We were shipping stain glass as well, so it wasn't a 100 lie.

My advice would be to wrap it up ahead of time and bring it in, and maybe say that you're shipping a set of family dishes (if you want the "fragile" label slapped on it).

We were, by the way, able to ship a 12 pack in our luggage, each bottle wrapped individually in bubble wrap. Our fine folks at the TSA unwrapped them to make sure they weren't bombs or something, and then threw them back in the luggage without rewrapping them, so do that at your own risk.

[Fly Creek]

If I remember correctly, the Border Cafe in Cambridge used to sell Lone Star, Dixie and a few others. Maybe somebody over there could point them in the right direction.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by mikemac

We were, by the way, able to ship a 12 pack in our luggage, each bottle wrapped individually in bubble wrap. Our fine folks at the TSA unwrapped them to make sure they weren't bombs or something, and then threw them back in the luggage without rewrapping them, so do that at your own risk.

I'd be careful of putting the beer in your luggage. I usually do carry on. If they don't pressureize the cargo hold you may get seepage onto your clothes. I've had this happen before. Fortunately it was on a return trip. :D

[chazwicke]

pressurize (Helping the Happy Helper help me:D )

[fretlessman71]

See? THIS is what I'm trying to accomplish! It's a three stage process... first, we look at our post and say, "Hmmm... something doesn't look right; let me fix that." Then we get to the point of Previewing each post to see what needs to be fixed first, and finally we pretty much just know as we're typing in our messages to Internet Free Fermentica! :D

Thanks chaz... you saved me some work AND gave me a soapbox!

And oh yeah - if you put brew in your suitcase, you better wrap the heck out of it - and be prepared to do it twice: once at home and once after they rummage through your jockeys...

[danno]

when I ship beer, if they even ask, I just write "yeast samples" on the package. then, you're not lying...

and I'm of the opinion that marking your package "fragile" is just a challenge to the handlers... :rolleyes:

[mikemac]

oops, sorry that I didn't mention that the bottles shipped in the luggage were special edition aluminum bottles, so they were able to take a beating.

But I would assume also that just because you ship something w/ UPS or FedEx doesn't mean they won't put it in a plane's cargo hold, right? Or do they use pressurized storage on their planes?

I know I've seen the USPS putting mail in the regular cargo holds of passenger airliners, not sure if this is how it usually works.

[chazwicke]

Oh so you were shipping the new Iron City aluminum bottles hunh?

[mikemac]

We were shipping Big Sky Brewing Co. Moosedrool.

here's a link to the bottle if you're interested...

http://www.bigskybrew.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.alumaBottle

[chazwicke]

Yep. They have had those bottles for a while now. Iron City has been getting much press lately as they cut a big deal with Alcoa and the IC bottles hit the shelves in October. I am anxious to see the bottles as the Moose Drool was only bottled when I was last in Montana a few years ago. I'll probably try one of the IC bottles just to have a look. One of our local stores is carrying them. It has been a long, long time since I drank IC even during visits to Pittsburgh.

[bdkelly]

chazwicke - I noticed that on a post the other day you said a store in your area was selling Iron City. I live in Alexandria, and was wondering where you saw it. I've been trying to find IC forever, and haven't had any luck.

I'd really appreciate your help.

[chazwicke]

I sent you a PM but Call Norm's Beer and Wine in Vienna. They were getting it in the new aluminum bottle.