Fellowship of the Drink VIII: The Battle of the Brewers

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Fellowship of the Drink VIII: The Battle of the Brewers

Welcome to Round VIII of the Fellowship of the Drink swap!

This is a beer swap for members of the continental US to allow you to try some beers from outside your region. Every participant picks a few beers as their offer and then we devise a draw order and go down the list until everyone has picked an offer to receive.

Link to the previous Trades:
Fellowship of the Drink Trading Thread
Fellowship of the Drink II: The Two (beer) Towers
Fellowship of the Drink III: The Return of the (beer) kings
Fellowship of the Drink IV: I'm out of Lord of the Rings Puns
Fellowship of the Drink V: The Fellowship Drinks Bock
Fellowship of the Drink VI: All crying Samwise's will be flogged
Fellowship of the Drink VII: The Drinkers Awaken


So how does it work?
1. If you're interested in participating, let us know in this thread.
2. Once you're confirmed as a participant, PM me a photo of your offering along with a link to something like beer advocate/ratebeer/untappd for each beer so that others can get an idea what they are.
3. A few days before the drawing I will post a full list of all the offerings and photos.
4. On the day before the pick I'll use a randomizer to create a drawing order. I will post a time for each participant that you are "On the Clock" with 5min between participants.
5. If you are not going to be around for the pick send me a pick list order so that I can put your pick in for you.
6. On pick day show up at your time slot to submit your pick. If you sent me a pick list I'll cover you. If you fail to send a list or show up you go to the end of the line.


Rules, there must be rules..
-Continental US residents only
-Must be of legal drinking age (I feel dumb having to actually type that, but prefer not to risk getting thumped by Yooper)
-Maximum of 30 participants
-Participants must also meet 1 of the following 4 requirements:
1) A HBT member for 6 months and minimum of 2 iTrader rating. All trades must be 100% positive.
2) A HBT member for 6 months and 0 or 1 iTrader 100% positive rating, but trading experience verified by a qualified FotD participant.
3) A previous FotD participant.
4) Or just PM me with your personal trading experience, and bribery terms!
- The final rule is the participant must give feedback on itrader of their experience.


Offer Guidelines
- Each offering should be at least 3-6 cans or bottles of commercial beer, preferably local to the sender, but please no more then 86oz total in offering.
- Each offering must also contain at least 1 non-beer item; glassware, stickers, coozies, etc of a local brewery.
- You additionally may also offer some homemade beverages with the commercial offerings (we all love trying homebrew).
- Guidelines are just that, guidelines. Final shipments may, and many times do, exceed the offering posted. Extras are not required however.

Offers from the first five rounds:
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6 Part I
Round 6 Part II
Round 7

Current Timeline
Thursday, July 20 - Create thread for Round VIII
Friday, August 18 - All photos & final submissions due
Sunday, August 20 - List of offers posted. Order of picks revealed via random drawing by 10pm EST.
Saturday, August 26 - Pick day. 1st pick will be 2:00pm EST. All others will be in a 5min interval.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Participation & Offer Status

Active Participants with Offers:
jimyson
JayDog
TBC
Fourfarthing
jerbrew
TwistedGray



Active Participants without Offers:
Scturo
Thorrak
imasickboy
PaulR
JDXX1971
jschm19
afro_lou
SailorJerry
EcuPirate07
 
Of course I'm in. Great opportunity to bring back some Colorado sours for myself and offer up...(sly jab towards PianoMan)
 
Side note, when I was buying some stuff yesterday for the trade I found out I can get Burial Brewing beer out in Colorado. They're getting spoiled being in the middle of the country. It takes way too long for anything to make its way out to San Diego even Los Angeles beers are hard to come by.
 
Unless anyone has issue, it seems as though you are active in the drinking thread and have a positive trade with @TBC. We could use some fresh blood in this also.

Any concerns from others?

He's good I'll vouch for him. We just did a trade a couple weeks ago. Plus the New Orthodox IPA series from MI are excellent!
 
I was thinking I'd sit this one out...


Then I thought, "what the hell am I thinking???"


Gotta keep up the streak.




Also, @EcuPirate07, come on back!
 
Tentative yes. I'm going to KC this weekend, gonna see if I can find something interesting. If you will, hold a place til Monday please.
 
Unfortunately, I'm out again. It's been all work and no play for me lately. Just posting here so I can watch this round unfold... and get some beer porn.

:mug:
 
Unless anyone has issue, it seems as though you are active in the drinking thread and have a positive trade with @TBC. We could use some fresh blood in this also.

Any concerns from others?

He's good I'll vouch for him. We just did a trade a couple weeks ago. Plus the New Orthodox IPA series from MI are excellent!

Thanks guys! I have some feedback from a couple other forums if needed as well.
 
I didn't have any time to look a whole lot with my family being with me. I won't be able to participate this round.
 
I've updated the OP with the current participants but wanted to list it here as well. Let's get some more blood in the game!

1. @jimyson
2. @Scturo
3. @RevKev
4. @TBC
5. @Thorrak
6. @Pianoman
7. @imasickboy
8. @jerbrew
9. @PaulR
10. @JDXX1971
11. @jschm19
12. @TwistedGray
13. @afro_lou
 
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