Let's try this again this year. I just set up an online bracket on Yahoo. To make it homebrew related and interesting, losers send the winner a couple of samples of their homebrews. Through sheer luck, I won last year and collected a nice collection of brews from around the country. Please don't play if you won't send beer. First round has a bonus point added for picking an underdog. Use your Tastybrew username as your bracket name so we know who to talk shit to!



Link: http://y.ahoo.it/VAK2WEho
Password: 2row

C'mon, all you're out is a few beers! We make 5 gallons at a time!

This is a fun lil challenge. Thanks for sending me the invite robert. I'll be back in for sure.

Remember kids: bag around the bottle, then bubblewrap. I had a couple of my yeast samples arrive broken on robert last year.

Just an update. University of North Texas is back in, riding a twelve game win streak. I'm smelling Final Four here fellas!

is it really on yahoo italy or are you just making this overly complicated?

That's just the link it gave me. Goes straight to the page.

I'll give it one more bump. First game is Thursday morning.

alright, I'm in. Let me be the first to wish you all bad luck.

Hey, I've got UNT winning it all! I'm a lock for the win!

Good thing I didn't see this and enter.....my bracket is already screwed with Vandy, N.D., and Florida out.... and damn 'Nova almost ate the dick and lost too... oh well, still pulling for my team, no matter how many haters there are..

LET'S GO DUKE!!!

I thought it was illegal to send alcohol through the mail? Any tips? SDSU reigns over all other basketball teams!!!

"I thought it was illegal to send alcohol through the mail? "

Its not illegal to send "yeast samples" through the mail.

Go Gonzaga! How is your bracket going Robert?

As of 5pm yesterday...great....Night games killed me. Still have my Final Four alive.

evenchunkiermonkey holds the Day One advantage.

It's illegal to send beer through the USPS...I think it's just against policy to send it through UPS and Fedex. BUt, like red said, they're just yeast samples. No beer here.

I've heard that the shipping companies are on to "yeast samples". I just say it's "gifts".

yeast samples, travis, they're yeast samples

I can see clearly now the grains are gone. I can see all the yeast starters comin my way!

northern iowa? are you kidding me??

I am wrapping my two bottles now. Just need to put an address in the box. My bracket is done.

Go KS/KT!

it's gonna come down to WV vs KY with OSU and Baylor playing wildcard. Good thing all you guys picked Kansas to win it all.

Hope whoever wins likes Belgians. That's all I've got bottled.

Well my bracket is crap, but i have another homer bracket I'm leading thanks to shockingly good play by my ALMA MATER.

Yeah, I hear the best part of MSU's football season is when basketball season starts

Pretty much ECM, but we are moving in a good direction in football now, but since I've gone there, we have been all basketball with a lil hockey mixed in.

Supposedly, we have a really good recruiting class coming in for football.

the cluster#%*@ at Michigan probably helped out. State should've hired Carr after he left the Wolverines and set up a new Woody Hayes vs. Bo Schembechler Big Ten coach hatred scenario. Of course neither Carr nor Rodriguez can/could seem to beat Jim Tresesel. But I'm a Badger fan, so what do I know?

I do believe that Duke just sent homebrews to Utah!

Hell, I knew last week I was sending HB's to ChunkyMonkey!

I'm all for setting this up for other leagues as well. Fantasy Football, Bowl Season, etc etc. If more people are interested, I'd love to set it up.

Sorry, Chunky took 3rd. UR shipping to me.

You set it up and I'll be playing. Was fun.

Ha! Shows what I know. I haven't checked the site since third round. Congrats. Do you like Belgians?

Not my favorite but hey, anything's better than a Bud, Coors, Pabst, Miller, etc!

I'll post shipping address in the bracket on Yahoo. It's my businss address so will save a few pennies shipping UPS.

Sounds good. I have a nice Amber in primary right now as well as some stout. I may put a few of those in bottles instead.

Congrats on the win. I can't guarantee everyone will send you beer, but hopefully the honor system will prevail.

This one stings a little. Couple big bottles of black cherry bastard imperial stout should show up in a few weeks. I always knew I was a Duke hater, but now I know why.

hey, just shipped on the 14th, hope it gets there in one piece. Told the post office I was shipping glassware. got me a nice big fragile sticker on it.

I have the beer and packaging, I'll get out next week.

Jim, I sent an email to the address listed on here. Some guys are needing a ph number for UPS order tracking.

Robert, I did not get your email. My email is jim@tvcsonline.com. Address to send to is on the yahoo bracket thread. If you need more info let me know

Gotcha. Mustve flipped the letters in the addy. I'll send again tomorrow

Hey, Matt from WI - your package arrived in good condition. I am out of town until Sunday but I look forward to a cold one when I get back. Thanks!

fantastic. It's strong one, comes in at about 10%. was undercarbonated two weeks ago, but I'm breaking into it this weekend

Jim,


Just kegged a Cascade Amber and a Dry Stout aged on lots of dark chocolate. Give it a week or two to make sure the few bottles I made with some carb drops don't blow up (I hate bottling) and I'll send some your way with a bomber of my BDSA. Sorry for delay, but I'm a procrastinator when it comes to racking.

I think I'd almost rather clean kegs than bottle.

Hey JMO - Got your package in good condition. Thanks!