Swap-O-Rama #6, New Year New Brews!

[TrickyDick]

If the man is unavailable for awhile or wouldnt want to put together this round, I can volunteer to put together the "personal style" swap. Anyone heard from him lately? And I'm not trying to take this or anything away from him, just willing to help out if need be since so many of us are ready for the next one.

Sounds good to me

TD


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[Indytruks138]

Obviously no one vote determines the outcome, but my vote is against the cans swap. I've done an all can swap on BA and got 30 different cans, and while it was fun, there are few (I know HT and GB) high quality or even limited release cans. I'd rather get higher quality beer regardless of the serving vessel.

And my personal opinion is cans burst quite easily in shipping, seen it happen a lot with cans.

 

[finsfan]

Sounds good to me

TD


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[TrickyDick]

Obviously no one vote determines the outcome, but my vote is against the cans swap. I've done an all can swap on BA and got 30 different cans, and while it was fun, there are few (I know HT and GB) high quality or even limited release cans. I'd rather get higher quality beer regardless of the serving vessel.

And my personal opinion is cans burst quite easily in shipping, seen it happen a lot with cans.

Didn't realize the cans would/could burst. know they can be damaged and leak, and on occasion have seen a can that burst from getting too cold.

I would like to chime in that I will likely be wanting to include several cigar city beers in my box. They can most of their stuff now. Some limited releases get bottles, but the year round offerings and some limited/seasonal releases are all canned. If can are excluded from the swap, I will have significantly fewer regional options to send (sweetwater, terrapin, And a few others). I'm not saying do an all cans swap, but if there is a limit on the cans, then there will be fewer CCB goods in the box. (Can't wait until funky budda starts their bottle/canning distribution.. ).

Anyhow, I also would agree that I don't have a preference in the vessel it's in, as long as it is good beer. As I am a newcomer to the beer trading scene, I'm still learning much about the process. it think that it's tremendously fun picking the beers for the box though. CAN't wait until this one starts, though truth be told I already have a bunch of CANdidates for my box on hand already.

TD


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[jmcm_brew]

+1 for the style swap idea


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[Brewbien]

I would definitely participate in a can swap. I have a ton of good options to send from Portland.

 

[val214]

It would be a bit hard for me to get a decent amount of cans for a trade. Not that many breweries out here can their beers. I guess I can just send 4packs and 6ers of cans from the breweries that do.


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[jmcm_brew]

There are a lot of canned options here but very few outside of troegs and Oskar blues I think are tradeworthy


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[BeerMeDuffMan]

It would be a bit hard for me to get a decent amount of cans for a trade. Not that many breweries out here can their beers. I guess I can just send 4packs and 6ers of cans from the breweries that do.


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Wrap a bottle of Pliny in tinfoil and call it even, man.

 

[nickfern]

If it were a can swap, I think we should set a minimum ounce like normal, but then have 75-80% of that be in cans ounces.

The remainder can be more cans or glass. Maybe that can satisfy mostly everyone.

 

[val214]

Wrap a bottle of Pliny in tinfoil and call it even, man.

That sounds like a great idea.


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[BeerMeDuffMan]

That sounds like a great idea.


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I can say with almost 100% certainty that nobody would complain

 

[DrPhunk]

I could probably produce a decent amount of cans depending on where my recipient lives, but I could definitely send a higher quality of beers if it was open to bottles.


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[SavoryChef]

I'm out if it were cans

 

[TrickyDick]

I think we should keep it open: cans OR bottles. No limit on specific oz of either. Shouldn't matter. More about the beer than the container to me.

RH

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

I think we should keep it open: cans OR bottles. No limit on specific oz of either. Shouldn't matter. More about the beer than the container to me.

RH

Its not a limit or anything like that. Its more like the bare minimum of a requirement. Anything beyond the 160oz rule is an extra on the senders part

 

[Brewbien]

How about a porch destroyer round, 500oz minimum!

 

[SavoryChef]

How about a porch destroyer round, 500oz minimum!

Since we haven't had a swap in a couple months, this would even it out

 

[TrickyDick]

That 500 oz would be 42 or more 12oz beers. That seems to be a bit more than you could probably pack into a single shipper.


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[finsfan]

500oz is too much. I still haven't heard back from TheMan but i will give it a few more days.

 

[nickfern]

How about a porch destroyer round, 500oz minimum!

Over/under on packages making it to final destination intact will be set at 4 ½.

 

[TheMan]

Im still alive!

Been a tad busy. Life is great, not busy in a bad way. I went a bit past the most recent quote of two weeks....sorry guys.

I need to touch base with dnyholm to make sure he is still in for next round. I promised he could choose the basic premise if he became a member, he did. Other than that I am going to try to buckle down and move forward with the next round. No time quote right now haha, but soon.

 

[Johnnyhitch1]

Im still alive!

Been a tad busy. Life is great, not busy in a bad way. I went a bit past the most recent quote of two weeks....sorry guys.

I need to touch base with dnyholm to make sure he is still in for next round. I promised he could choose the basic premise if he became a member, he did. Other than that I am going to try to buckle down and move forward with the next round. No time quote right now haha, but soon.

Take your time!


.....but promise me a spot if I jump thru flaming hoops and send you the youtube video?!

 

[D_Nyholm]

Im still alive!

Been a tad busy. Life is great, not busy in a bad way. I went a bit past the most recent quote of two weeks....sorry guys.

I need to touch base with dnyholm to make sure he is still in for next round. I promised he could choose the basic premise if he became a member, he did. Other than that I am going to try to buckle down and move forward with the next round. No time quote right now haha, but soon.

I'm still in! Either what we proposed earlier or anything new as long as some IPA/dip a/stouts are in the mix!

 

[DrPhunk]

Totally down for anything involving ipa/DIPA/stout!!


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[InityBrew]

Totally down for anything involving ipa/DIPA/stout!!


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Agree!

 

[val214]

How about a anniversary beer from a local brewery or a collaboration brew?


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[DrPhunk]

Just a heads up that the new swap is up


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