Trading for Non-Whales Advice

^^^ This, except you may actually land some whales from time to time in this thread.. never know...

 

I agree with the others, locals for locals posts work well for me but it helps to list specific breweries you are offering and are interested in. I happen to know a couple breweries in my area that nobody else gets (New Glarus) or they get rarely (CW). People outside WI tend to love both. I offer those up for trade as options, then I then toss in other lesser known WI beers and people give me feedback. The ones they love, I toss in as extras, etc. in other trades. I love getting oddball stuff from breweries I cannot get.
I am a "send me what you like from your state and I'll send you what I like from mine" kind of guy.

One thing I do wish is that there was some kind of "list" where one could go and see what was and was not distributed to a given state. I have learned some by asking, but that's rather inefficient. Certain states seem to get everything (PA and NY) and others get close to nothing in terms of distro.
Pat

 

http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html

 

It's a bit out of date, but the website seekabrew does have distro lists by state, and you can even compare what your state has that their state doesn't. It's what I have been using for sending extras etc. It's a pretty handy reference, but some of it is old/incorrect

 

Thanks for the tip, really nice even if a little out of date. Can't believe I've missed that for so long! And @DeadWalkerAir , your avatar is terribly distracting Wow.