what is the best way to package and ship, via ups or usps, bottles of beer? How do you guys do it?
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what is the best way to package and ship, via ups or usps, bottles of beer? How do you guys do it?
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I try to wrap each bottle seperatley and make sure once it's all packed up to pick up the box and shake it around to make sure nothing's loose. It's illegal to ship alcohol through USPS, UPS doesn't like it but they'll do it. They never have a problem when I'm shipping 'yeast samples'.Originally Posted by Cabaiguan Juan
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Chris nailed it on the head. If you can ship in 22oz bottles you will save a little bit on weight, but liquid is just heavy and $$ to ship.
Nalgene bottles work really well if you want to ship that non-carbonated stuff that you find in a mason jar.
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So you guys are saying that just wrapping the bottles in bubble wrap works? bubble wrap is sufficent enough to prevent the bottles from being broken in transit? This may be a dumb comment, but i thought that there would be more abuse in transit which would require more then just bubble wrap.
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buttface
I have had success with just bubble wrap yes. I have also shipped with just newspaper as well. The key, as Chris noted, is shaking the box and not hearing anything sliding around inside.
Personally I've had more issue with shipping homebrew and not getting the cap tight on the bottle (especially if the batch was a bit over carbonated). Not much you can do to prevent this other than checking over the caps before shipping.
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great, thanks guys!
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Let's bump the beer thread
We did our case swap again at work. I was really impressed with the following:
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Terrapin Hopsecutioner India Pale Ale
The imperial stout was very thick and had all kinds of great flavors going on.
The Hopsecutioner IPA was just a good straight up IPA with a lot of grapefruit and floral hop flavors.
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