The names I know of who did not deliver were:
Jacobyhale
Bluechip101
Landhoney
Am I missing anyone?
Jacobyhale
Bluechip101
Landhoney
Am I missing anyone?
The names I know of who did not deliver were:
Jacobyhale
Bluechip101
Landhoney
Am I missing anyone?
Man I feel like a jackass...I filled out the score sheet and everything...thought I posted it. I'll see if I can find that sheet somewhere if not I'll retaste.
I'm very, very sorry; I've been an extremely bad swapper this time around. I am getting married this Saturday and had my grandfather pass away a couple of weeks ago in Texas. All of this has kept me from doing anything at all that isn't wedding (or funeral) related. I haven't brewed in months. I haven't checked HBT in a couple of weeks, which is the longest I have ever gone since I joined.
I'm off work the next couple of days and hope to send my beers out tomorrow, time permitting. If I do, I won't send a tracking number, just watch for them! However, I have to be honest, with so much going on, it's a longshot.
If I run short of time and cannot send them, then it won't be until we return from our honeymoon on Sept. 14th. But I promise I will send them out! I'm not one to welch out on a deal!
Never received anything from Shunoshi.Am I missing anyone?
Never received anything from Shunoshi.
I can't decide whether to do 2nd round tastings of Pseudo, ollllo, and CBBaron's RISes on... New Years '09, or on 8/8/09. Thoughts?
I was just thinking about this as well...when to drink the rest of them.
New Years sounds better to me, I'd like to taste them when the weather is a bit more suited to an RIS than when it's 90 degrees outside.
Am I the only one that drank all 12 bottles of my swap RIS during the Olympics?
Mine are all gone, long gone. But at least I have the memories! Who holds on to beer that long anyway?
Mine are all gone, long gone. But at least I have the memories! Who holds on to beer that long anyway?
I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of feedback from this swap. Even a quick "Your beer sucks, and you suck for sending it out" would be something.
I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of feedback from this swap. Even a quick "Your beer sucks, and you suck for sending it out" would be something.
I haven't received any feedback either.
I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of feedback from this swap. Even a quick "Your beer sucks, and you suck for sending it out" would be something.
Damn, I am wrong. I did receive yours and I did not give you feed back. I have tasting notes and I sent them to another brewer. I will pull them up and pass them along. Sorry.
Chriso said:Korndog and Flowerysong... It's not the same as feedback, but I can send you a consolation care package if you like. I feel really bad that you two got shafted pretty badly, and both wound up with two welchers that got your beers.
Speaking of Chefs, I'm the only RIS review posted in PsuedoChef's thread. One non-RIS was posted, but no other RISes.
I agree with the sentiment, korndog, but I can't think of a way to implement that ... after all, everyone will have a First swap at some point.... We could rely on one-on-one swaps to count for "prior experience"... but then people could just lie.
No matter what we come up with (In the 10der & Mild swap, for example, olllllo required email and phone #'s, kept confidential, in case something went bottom-up) we are trying to use rules and policies to circumvent or prevent what is essentially a personal integrity issue. Ultimately, it is the person on the other end of the wire who didn't fulfill their "contract", whether that's by not shipping beer, or by failing to provide any feedback to the people who shipped to them. It's disappointing. I have no other word to describe it. It's just plain disappointing.
I always recognized the potential was there for events such as this to occur, but I did not truly think it was going to happen with this swap, because I had only witnessed the GOOD character and integrity of many of our upstanding members up until that point.
Some interesting Russian Imperial Statistics for you all:
24 of 28 participants posted a Review Thread.
4 of 28 participants welched, and did not ship beer.
6 packages of beer were sent to welchers, never to be seen again(?).
7 participants' Review Threads had RIS reviews from all three recipients.
9 participants' Review Threads had RIS reviews from two, but not three, recipients.
6 participants' Review Threads had RIS reviews from only one recipient.
2 participants' Review Threads had RIS reviews from zero recipients.
2 recipients posted reviews of their senders' other "bonus" beers, but not their RISes.
15 RIS reviews are missing, in 13 Review Threads, from 7 active users.
45 RIS reviews were posted in 22 Review Threads. (*)
1 RIS reviewer is in a different state than his beers are, and could yet post reviews at any date.
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0 of these statistics actually mean anything. I was just curious, and like numbers.
(* - This only includes regular 888 RIS. Variants, such as CBBaron's year-old RIS, or BrewPastor's Raspberry RIS, were not included in this count.)
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