Finding Three Floyds

It's not? Next time I ship a case of Cascade to a friend in Pittsburgh, you can pay for the shipping then. I have my own resusable shipping boxes that I use, but if you don't happen to belong to a wine club or two, then buying a shipper and sending a case of beer across country can run you close to $100. For some folks, that qualifies as expensive (in the case of Cascade, it tacks on an additional $7 or $8 a bottle for a beer that is already pretty expensive). If that's not the case for you, congratulations, but for many people, that would be considered a pretty expensive little hobby, especially if you're making trades like this every couple of months.

Your other comment I just don't understand. I've gotten to try a lot of amazing, cool stuff via bottle shares... you think I shoud feel guilty or predatory over that? By the same token, I also try to bring a lot of great stuff (last event I attended, I brought a bottle of king henry and darkness 2011), so it's not as if I'm not giving value for value (at least to the extent I can). In the case of the OP, she wants to try some 3 Floyds some day. Who knows if she'll even like anything by them, but I can certainly understand her wanting to at least try some of their stuff at some point. Maybe if she really digs it, she'll then arrange a trade, or maybe she'll drive out to Munster and bring back a dozen cases of zombie dust. However, in the interim, trying a few different beers by them first at a bottle share seems to make a lot of sense.

Personally, I think it's really cool when I happen to bring something that is high up on someone's "wants" list. In my experience, that's how most people at bottle shares react, and as jmw pointed out, most folks are well aware that we all have different monetary capabiliities. So that's never an issue. Besides, why do you think folks even want to go to bottle shares, if it isn't to show off what they have, and to sample everyone else's "rare treats" as well.

I confess I really have no idea where you're coming from on this mark14580.

 

Then let me brief (since it's clear that you find reading my post a bit challenging).

You're the one who brought up how cheap it is to ship, not me. I brought up the cost of shipping a case of Cascade as an example of how/why that's not always true (but I gather my example was lost on you).

"You've already spent too much time contemplating it"

I appreciate your concern, but as it's mine to spend, how about if we let me be the judge of that, hmmm?

"If the OP wants to try some three Floyd's she can easily trade for it."

Yep, she can. Be kind of bummer though wouldn't it, if it turned out she traded for a beer she didn't like. That's why I suggested trying some first at a bottle share (of course I pointed all that out at great length in my previous post, but I gather that post was so long, you might not have gotten around to reading it all.)

 

Exactly. I actually thought this was all fairly obvious, but apparently not. Oh well...