What happens if a rare bottle explodes in the winter?

The sender is typically responsible until the box is delivered with all of the bottles intact. In the case of breakage, you work with your trade partner to find a resolution which could mean shipping another bottle, shipping a comparable bottle, or sending the box you received back.

You MUST always attempt to resolve the matter in private first. If you're not able to and the situation meets a "bad trader" criteria (see guideline here: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/how-to-create-a-bad-trader-thread.258091/), you can post about it in the Bad Traders sub-forum: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/forums/bad-traders.73/

A side note: In the case of weather-related concerns (too hot or too cold), you should discuss with your trade partner and decide. If you're not comfortable shipping due to weather concerns, delay the shipment. If the trade partner insisted, make sure they agreed, in a message, that they will be responsible for weather-related breakages.

 

This is the correct answer unless you agree upon something else.
You have to be careful shipping lower ABV beers in the cold. A lower abv beer is more likely to freeze than something with a higher abv.

 

He would be an unreasonable trader. You should then ship what you got from him back to him, offer to send money for his original shipping cost, and provide a label for him to ship the rest of your stuff back (if it's a larger box). You could be nice and let him keep the rest of the box or some of the beer, that's up to you, but you're not obligated to. If you went through all that and he called you out as a bad trader, he will get reamed here. If he got his box back and kept the rest of your box anyway, then he's a bad trader and should be called out.

 

Absolutely. Covered this in my previous response.

 

Why are you dumb enough to ship rare bottles in the winter in the first place?

 

Pretty ballsy from someone with 0 trade experience.

 

Not on this site recently, no.

 

I recently did a trade where I was worried about my bottle arriving safely. I insisted on shipping first so that I could resolve anything that happened.
Last year I also had a trade partner who waited to send me bottles and was about to send them when a cold snap happened - early January. I told him to wait and only asked for them to be shipped in March, I had shipped early December. the wait was an easy choice as it was sours. Accidents happen, think about the consequences and don't rush into situation where you might lose your bottle.

 

Just googling your location on here + weather results in some very cold temperatures. Most of the CONUS doesn't get quite that cold, even in the heart of winter. That said, there are still random weird weather drops or rises in temperature that should be accounted for. Not to say people think to check it. I know my city has had a 40*F weekend, and then been in the single digits a few days later. In other words, winter being bad to trade in is relative to where you live and are shipping.

 

Yeah I don't actually live there, it's an inside joke. I'm well aware of how to ship beer and when not to ship beer.

 

Edgy AF.

 

Probably cuts down on the trade requests too.