How well do you trust you dealer?

[GoeHaarden]

So, against my better judgement and ignoring the increasing bad feedback of morebeer's service I recently made a purchase from them. Included in my purchase was a small pack of Nelson Sauvin hops as I've never used this hop and I've been wanting to give it a try before buying a large pack. For 2oz. it was $6.99 which is not the cheapest around I know, but I hit free shipping so it kind of evened out.

My dilemma, is that tonight I just dry hopped with the remaining ounce of Nelson Sauvin and I noticed that the label of the hop package appeared slightly skewed as if one label was placed on top of another label. So I peeled the label off and underneath the Nelson Sauvin label was a label for English Challenger. At $3.50 price difference it makes me wonder if something sketchy is going down...

I don't know if morebeer labels the packages or if their distributor does, but either way it seems a little odd. I'm just hoping that is was simply a mis-labeling error that got caught after the fact. I certainly hope that this wasn't a purposeful re-labeling to boost profits, but I won't ever really know. Either way I just wanted to throw this out there to get people to be cautious in fully trusting online retailers.

 

[day_trippr]

I'd have thought Nelson Sauvin was so distinctly different that it'd be easy to tell if that's what you received.
Perhaps the packager had left-over bags from a Challenger run...

Cheers!

 

[Still Brewn]

Did you weigh the hops? The labels have different weights on them. Looks like the original label was for an ounce/28 grams.

 

[GoeHaarden]

I'd have thought Nelson Sauvin was so distinctly different that it'd be easy to tell if that's what you received.
Perhaps the packager had left-over bags from a Challenger run...

Cheers!

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. I feel that it did have a slightly unique aroma, and I tried to compare with a some left over Challenger that I had but they we too old to really compare.

 

[GoeHaarden]

Did you weigh the hops? The labels have different weights on them. Looks like the original label was for an ounce/28 grams.

Yeah, it weighed out to 2 ounces. I wondered about this too...

 

[Still Brewn]

I would guess that is was just a mislabel then. You could always call and ask or email them. Get a pack of each and see which is which....

 

[GoeHaarden]

Yeah, I sent them an email to see if they could provide an explanation. I'm not too worried, but I just thought it was a little strange and it started to invoke some questioning thoughts...

Either way, just makes you think about what you're actually receiving when a retailer repackages items...

 

[6Tap]

What dealer? [emoji41]

 

[GoeHaarden]

I didn't order sour diesel...

 

[jmcquesten]

I didn't order sour diesel...

Or did I???

 

[GoeHaarden]

Or did I???

After the 1st ounce I don't remember much!!

 

[GoeHaarden]

So morebeer got back with me the other day, and just as day_tripper thought. They prelabeled too many challenger bags before filling them and didn't want want to waste the packages. So the relabeled it to use the packages...

I wasn't too worried, and they did get back to me rather fast and over a weekend. I'm satisfied with their products and service, but it still makes you wonder. Especially if you order grain bills pre-mixed from online retailers...