I can't get Rainier ale here. After reading a recent book titled White Rabbit, and a short story about coming of age in Seattle with large adolscent consumption of Rainier Ale (author to be mentioned later- I'm not near the book), I'm left pining for a Rainier.

My offer? a trade. Send me a Rainier ale, and ask me for something you may not be able to get in Washington State. Is it a beer as well? I don't think I can get Yuengling, but believe it or not, I can get Lone Star. And there's a nice Tuckerman's Ravine beer I'm not sure you can get out there.

Or it could be a food item- I could attempt to ship something maybe only local to the east coast. I'd be nervous trying to send a live lobster, or a Boston Market turkey, but I'm open to suggestions.

Any takers?

I've sent Sam Adams successfully to Texas via DHL...

How much are you looking for? I have a box designed to ship beverage bottles in that should be able to handle up to six 40oz (think the foam forms were for wine bottles). Considering that Rainier Ale is a budget, high alcohol content brew, I'm pretty sure I can find some in this college town. Rainier Ale (aka "Green Death") and not Rainier Beer (aka "Slug Bait"), right? The Rainier Beer label was sold a few years back and I don't know if it's still available.

Don't want to ship live lobster? That sounds kind of fun, especially if you remove the bands from the claws. (Do only if someone else has already volunteered to send you some ale.)

- JP

Rainer Ale..........we called it the Green Death because it was so awful tasting We were kids then so maybe it tastes better now

I'm thinking it was the Ale, JP.

as you're a reader, aand despite my pop culture references, I am as well, I'll copy the story for you.

Heck, one bottle is plenty. and if there's a rainier beer there as well, heck, I'd give that a shot too.

Paul, the NW has a micro brewery every 1.5 miles it seems like and there are endless choices of premium beer. Rainer is not one of them if you want some good beer we could arrange that but I'd have a hard time sending Rainer to anyone I liked

Kelly, as a brew connoisseur of sorts and being near Portland where a lot of good microbrews can be found (such as Hair of the Dog Adam, purportedly one of the best beers around), maybe you should put together a sampler package for Paul. 'Bout all we have here is a lot and I mean a lot, of very cheap beer for the college students, but not much that's particularly good and local.


- JP

I was wrong. We don't have the Green Death here. It's been a few months since I've had beer in the fridge and felt like one. After an hour and a half driving around town to the various mini-markets that pose as grocery stores but have 5x as much alcohol in its various forms as actual food (predominantly chips, cereal, and alcohol accessories), I was vastly disappointed by the selection. No Rainier Ale, no Hair of the Dog (that I really want to try), nor even a couple dark stouts and black-tan favorites of mine that used to be available. Just enough watered down pale ales to fill a lake (people drink that stuff??). Very disappointing.

Guess it's up to someone else.
- JP