Exchanging brews

[Moley]

So when some forum members are talking about exchanging brews, how does that work?

Full bottles or taster samples, e.g. 250/330ml PETs?
Glass bottles or do you re-bottle in plastic?
Bottle conditioned ales, again, do you re-bottle?
How do you pack them?
Are there any legal restrictions?
Is any sort of package contents labelling required?
How do you post them?
What does it cost?

 

[Muddydisco]

1. Depends on the brew but normally a full pint smaller for an imperial stout
2. Which ever way you want
3. Depends how you bottled it, Some of mine come bright out of the keg
4. With as much padding as possible Normally a couple of wraps of large bubble wrap and pack tightly so they won't move and hit each other in the box
5. No just post them if you put fragile on it post office seems to take to them like a bulll to a red flag
6. royal fail or other parcel service
7. 2 pints second class £7 royal fail cos it's over the weight limit

 

[Aleman]

If I'm sending more that a bottle out then I will use Parcel to go as it is much cheaper. I recently sent a 4Kg package to Ireland and Royal Fail were going to charge me 45 quid . . . Parcel2Go cost 18 quid. if you are talking anything over 2Kg then again Parcel2Go works out cheaper.

I have sent out 330ml Brown Pet Bottles in the past, but now I have some more glass ones I'm happy to send those well packed so they can't move or bang together. . . . no failures here so far.