6 pack trade anyone

[Bazaar]

I'd be interested in this, too.

 

[brewcephus]

I just checked on UPS website and for me to ship from Louisiana to New York it would cost 15 dollars assuming a normal box with 10 pounds of weight. That is not that cost prohibitive for me and my local scene is lacking right now.

thood, I know the feeling. I know there's a Homebrew scene here in H'burg but have yet to break into it. I have a few guys here at the hospital that I work at that all homebrew, so we all trade out beers when a batch is done. We like to call it the bottle swap

 

[thood6]

I'd rather send to one or two people in a monthly rotation than send to a dozen.

Even with a central guy so you'd only have to pay twice for shipping?

I was thinking if we got groups of 4-6 together who like/brew the same styles and everybody in that group sends a twelve pack every couple of months(preferably multiple different beers). They would send them to a member of the group who would rearrange them and ship them so each person got 2-3 beers from each person.

Again I'm open to anything I just want to get some feedback. Let's get the format nailed down and get this puppy going.

 

[Antler]

I'd rather send to one or two people in a monthly rotation than send to a dozen.

You don't send to a dozen. You send a 12 pack (with return postage) to the guy organizing the trade off. He sends you a 12 pack, 1 beer for every participant.

 

[JayDubWill]

I'm in. I've done something similar to this, but it was an one-on-one trade and the beer we traded was in 1 liter plastic bottles. I used UPS and think I paid around $11 for shipping. I paid online and printed my own shipping labels. That way I could just drop it off with minimal interation at the UPS store. It's not illegal to ship with UPS/FEDEX, just against their policies. Sending 'Yeast Samples' on the other hand, is not against their policies. I do reccomned individual ziplock baggies for the beers and of course lots of padding.

I could send to one or two people but not a dozen, that would be too expensive. Someone (OP?) should setup a spreadsheet or something. Maybe host it on google docs or something and everyone signs up in pairs. For example colume 1 lists the persons name and beer(s) they are sharing. In column two whoever wants to recieve that beer puts their name in, but only if they are also in column 1 sharing. That way it stays even. Just an idea. One thing for certain is we need to decide on a standard amount, wether it's a sixer or a 12-pack. I'm leaning towards a six pack just because it's easier to ship and isn't 25% of my batch.

 

[thood6]

I'm in. I've done something similar to this, but it was an one-on-one trade and the beer we traded was in 1 liter plastic bottles. I used UPS and think I paid around $11 for shipping. I paid online and printed my own shipping labels. That way I could just drop it off with minimal interation at the UPS store. It's not illegal to ship with UPS/FEDEX, just against their policies. Sending 'Yeast Samples' on the other hand, is not against their policies. I do reccomned individual ziplock baggies for the beers and of course lots of padding.

I could send to one or two people but not a dozen, that would be too expensive. Someone (OP?) should setup a spreadsheet or something. Maybe host it on google docs or something and everyone signs up in pairs. For example colume 1 lists the persons name and beer(s) they are sharing. In column two whoever wants to recieve that beer puts their name in, but only if they are also in column 1 sharing. That way it stays even. Just an idea. One thing for certain is we need to decide on a standard amount, wether it's a sixer or a 12-pack. I'm leaning towards a six pack just because it's easier to ship and isn't 25% of my batch.

What we are proposing allows us to sample a variety of beers but only pay for 2 shipping labels. There would be one shipping location that everyone would ship to where an organizer would rearrange the beers and ship it back to each member. You see what I mean?

I'm going to make a list of people we have now and if anyone wants to be taken off just let me know.

I am pumped.

Edit:

This is who I have so far:
Tyzippers
Atonk
skipfab74
watersr
AgentHubcap
nghtmrefu
Arg1129
upNYbrew
jackmack1
reinstone
brewcephus
PeterPan
humpadilo
Bazaar
JayDubWill

That is 16 tentative people who have shown interest

 

[AgentHubcap]

You don't send to a dozen. You send a 12 pack (with return postage) to the guy organizing the trade off. He sends you a 12 pack, 1 beer for every participant.

Got it. I'm fine with that.

 

[nghtmre4u]

You don't send to a dozen. You send a 12 pack (with return postage) to the guy organizing the trade off. He sends you a 12 pack, 1 beer for every participant.

This also sounds very cool. I have a saison a porter a apa a light lager and a blonde ale and a caribou slobber all ready

 

[Antler]

I can't be included in this round. Due to working 80+hrs/week all winter, a new baby a month ago, and ****ty town water I haven't brewed since Halloween. I need to find some charcoal or carbon block filters for the filter setup I bought from brewmasters warehouse to filter my brewing water.

I'm down with a future swap though!!!

 

[thood6]

I can't be included in this round. Due to working 80+hrs/week all winter, a new baby a month ago, and ****ty town water I haven't brewed since Halloween. I need to find some charcoal or carbon block filters for the filter setup I bought from brewmasters warehouse to filter my brewing water.

I'm down with a future swap though!!!

Sorry to hear man. Good luck getting going though!

Now we are really down to 16 including me.

 

[fpweeks]

I am interested. I'll need to rethink my packaging. I pretty much only keg right now.

Would bottling in 20 oz soda bottles make shipping easier? It would certainly minimize the potential for breakage.

 

[bob1852]

fyi, here's some guidance on how it's been done in the past...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f38/exchange-rules-44987/

 

[bellmtbbq]

I'm in guys. I probably could only do 3-4 different kind of beers, unless you want me to double up to make a six pack.

PM me- A Vienna lager, A light lager, an insanely hopped Mosaic-Galaxy-Centennial IPA.

 

[thood6]

Alright guys do what do y'all think of those rules? How binding are they? I never thought to restrict it to supporting members only but if that's what y'all want then let's do that.

 

[watersr]

I'm stoked. With 16+ guys we may have to do a few rounds. I will have 4 beers ready within the next 2 weeks, maybe 5.

 

[bellmtbbq]

Alright guys do what do y'all think of those rules? How binding are they? I never thought to restrict it to supporting members only but if that's what y'all want then let's do that.

I'd be out as I am not a supporting member, but would love to participate

 

[humpadilo]

Same here. I'm not a member.

 

[thood6]

Same here. I'm not a member.

As long as no one has a problem with it I don't think we should exclude y'all.

 

[brewcephus]

I think he was just saying that you have to be a supporting member to setup/organize an exchange. I would think that anyone could participate though.


Bottled my Oatmeal stout last night, so it should be ready to go in a couple of weeks. I also have a Le Petite Orange(Belgian Dubbel) that is ready. And will be bottling my Apfelwein hopefully this weekend

 

[thood6]

Gotcha. How about everyone pm with a list of their beers and what they like and I'll figure out some grouping.

 

[2BeerSpeer]

I'm interested if it doesn't have to be 12 separate brews...I only have 4 on tap....

 

[thood6]

I'm interested if it doesn't have to be 12 separate brews...I only have 4 on tap....

It certainly doesn't have to be 12 separate ones.

 

[tyzippers]

I don't think there's any reason to exclude anyone. The Make a Wish thread that KeyWestBrewing started is open to non-supporting members, but does have a restriction on length of membership and number of posts. Maybe do something like that?

 

[JayDubWill]

Gotcha. How about everyone pm with a list of their beers and what they like and I'll figure out some grouping.

I'm generally of the mindset of you catch more bees with honey...meaning I don't think anyone should be excluded from trading by not being a supporting member of HBT, but it should be made known that this trade was made possible by HBT and to show support when you can. Especially if we make this a quarterly or semi-annual event.


A couple of things need to be nailed down (and these are just food for thought to spur discussion):
-Return postage, should be in the form of a pre-paid (UPS) label included in the box you send to the central guy (Hub).
-Hub needs to be a supporting member.
-Send any number of beer styles so long as you send Twelve 12oz or greater bottles.
(For those who want feedback on a few different beers)
-Not everyone will receive every type of beer sent in, but everyone will receive 12 beers...hopefully not one of the ones they sent in.
-Bottles can be glass or plastic.
-Recipes will be sent with the beers along with the senders e-mail address and HBT user name and any notes the brewer wants to add. i.e. I brewed this beer because...using this particular method in order to achieve...this is my attempt to clone...etc.
-And this is an important one-- Everyone who receives the beers MUST send the sender their brutally honest tasting notes to either the brewers e-mail address or PM via the HBT web site. Alternatively we can (and I hope we do) have discussions about our brews in open threads, but the brewer must be the one to start the thread.

 

[thood6]

I'm generally of the mindset of you catch more bees with honey...meaning I don't think anyone should be excluded from trading by not being a supporting member of HBT, but it should be made known that this trade was made possible by HBT and to show support when you can. Especially if we make this a quarterly or semi-annual event.

A couple of things need to be nailed down (and these are just food for thought to spur discussion):
-Return postage, should be in the form of a pre-paid (UPS) label included in the box you send to the central guy (Hub).
-Hub needs to be a supporting member.
-Send any number of beer styles so long as you send Twelve 12oz or greater bottles.
(For those who want feedback on a few different beers)
-Not everyone will receive every type of beer sent in, but everyone will receive 12 beers...hopefully not one of the ones they sent in.
-Bottles can be glass or plastic.
-Recipes will be sent with the beers along with the senders e-mail address and HBT user name and any notes the brewer wants to add. i.e. I brewed this beer because...using this particular method in order to achieve...this is my attempt to clone...etc.
-And this is an important one-- Everyone who receives the beers MUST send the sender their brutally honest tasting notes to either the brewers e-mail address or PM via the HBT web site. Alternatively we can (and I hope we do) have discussions about our brews in open threads, but the brewer must be the one to start the thread.

Great ideas. I'm going to set the deadline to contact me to be included for the end of this week and the we'll go from there.

 

[reinstone]

Could we just send $ instead of the prepaid and let the boss sort it out?

 

[reinstone]

And we should hurry. I'm drinking all of my best beers! Rather do this than a comp. can I send like two o each beer? Can I request a style?

 

[reinstone]

I have kolsch, amber ale, ipa1, ipa2, red red ryepa, to trade only have a few of the ipas as I drink them....lets do this!

 

[thood6]

That would be a mess. The hub would presumably have to print over 10 of those things and organize them rather than have it already set aside for him.

 

[brewcephus]

-Return postage, should be in the form of a pre-paid (UPS) label included in the box you send to the central guy (Hub).

^ this.

Honestly, it won't be that hard to just buy another label since you will already be at UPS dropping off your case. You already know how much it costs since you just bought the exact same label to ship it to the hub.

Also this will save the hub some time and headache in getting all of our beers back to us