The past 7 days have been damn successful on the beer front.  I completed my first trade for some MN brews, Gibby hooked me up with some stuff from Hawaii, I got to try a Mikkeller Black and the "bacon beer", and I had a DAMN successful trip to Bowling Green where I was fortunate enough to hang out with some fellow KY beer geeks and snag a few harder to find brews (Thanks Patrick and Blake!).  Here's the week-long haul:

• Gueuze Girardin 1882
• 2007 De Struise Brouwers Pannepot Old Farmehouse Ale
• Ithaca Ten
• Ithaca Old Habit
• 2007 Schlafly Reserve Imperial Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels
• Surly Furious
• Surly Coffee Bender
• Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti
• Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
• ift Bridge Beer Farm Girl Saison
• Peche' Mortal
• Troegs Mad Elf
• Great Lakes Commodore Perry
• Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
• Founders Backwoods Bastard
• Dark Horse Crooked Tree
• Dark Horse Scotty Karate
• Kona Pipeline Porter
• Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale
• Kona Wailua
• Maui Breweing Big Swell IPA
• Maui Brewing Bikini Lager
• Sprecher Black Bavarian Lager

I have to say that is a successful week and gives me PLENTY of stuff to review over the next few weeks/month or so.  And to make it better I still have a Surly Darkness, Surly 4 and/or Smoke, Surly Abrasive, Bell's Batch 9000, and (hopefully) a Hop Dam Triple IPA from Hoppin' Frog.  All before Dark Lord Day in April.  This is easily turning out to be the best beer year I've ever had, and that may happen before half a year is over.  Cheers everyone!