Booze. In this case, beer, and plenty of it. These 5 bottles are gonna last me quite a long time. I cannot capture merely in words the ecstatic euphoria I experienced upon opening that large, hefty package (what someone somewhere said), but I assure you it was a moment of transcendent bliss when I found the bottles waiting for me, each wrapped carefully in cardboard.

My gifter chose very well. I explained that I was turning 21 by the time the matching was complete, so I included alcohol tastes, and I can safely say from sampling the first of the 5 that the gifter knows what's up. The Pliny Elder was smooth with a note of pepper - a bit on the bitter side but not like Stone bitter - and it really opened up nicely when I got it out of the bottle and into the glass. The amber color was quite dazzling under light, though I got excited when I saw the hints of red that turned out to be refracted images of my fingers on the underside of the glass. Regardless, I am humbled by this gift and SUPER fuckin grateful to my gifter. Cheers, good sir/madam. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I drink to your honor.

In case you can't see the labels: Blue Frog - Red Frog Ale, Racer 5 IPA, The Pliny Elder, Boont Amber Ale, and Moylan's Kilt Lifter.