When is it too cold to ship?

MNChristine · Feb 7, 2019

maximum12 said: ↑

Lots of threads on this ever-popular topic. Here's a re-post of mine from 2012:

Shipping when it's below freezing is never perfectly safe.

However, I've traded throughout Minnesota winters for several years with only a single incoming casualty. Ask yourself a few questions before you ship:
- How cold is it? My rule of thumb is no single digits while the box is traveling.
- Where's it going? If it's 50 in NY & 70 in CA, it just might go through Chicago...
- What you trading? Hi ABV beers will survive when that 4% session beer explodes.
- Who's home? Once it arrives, get it inside.
- When you sending? In the winter never, ever, ever ship anything if it's not Monday.
- Weekends are killers...see above. Don't let anything sit in a truck over the weekend.
- How valuable is it? Save those bottles of KBBS or BA Dark Lord for spring or fall.

There you go. Your results may vary, but I've only had one incoming bottle & zero outgoing bottles kill in the past 10 winters. Watch the weather, pack well, send on Monday, you *should* be OK.

Side note: I too am currently holding off on a trade. Negative temps here in MN at night (& sometimes for highs, too) is waaaaaaaay too cold to ship beer.
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I just found your post... Really wish I would have seen it sooner....
I shipped out today from MN to TN and was going to ship tomorrow to GA.
I will hold off now, as temps are supposed to drop over the weekend..
Thank you for an informative post

When is it too cold to ship?

MNChristine Initiate (0) Jan 2, 2019 Minnesota

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