It’s that time of the year again. You know the rules
Send at least 3 liters of good, rateable beers from your country, which have not been rated by your recipient yet (and are not available in recipient’s country, when possible)
Some Santa likes to put snacks, beer mats, glasswares, magazines. Make it special!
Post your haul and remember to mention/thank your Santa when rating.
Rate the received beers on Ratebeer.
Don’t forget to leave a trade feedback when you have discovered who your Santa is.
You have minimum 50 ratings and no negative trade feedback. If you have no trade experience, send me a BM. We are always happy to welcome new people.
Subscription ends on 27/11.
To apply, send me a BM with:
address, email, mobile (for contact reasons)
likes and dislikes
If you wish to send to EU only or EU+Norway&Switzerland.
Don’t spoil your participation here!
On a side note, we know there’s a minimum amount of liters to send, but if possible it would be better to send 10 x 33cl than 4 x 75cl. I just want to avoid sending a “compensation box” again
Please make sure to write all those pending trade feedback you have. I will check your last 12 months’ trade history to set the best possible pairings, so it would be very helpful if everyone has that section of the profile up-to-date. Chase your trade partners if they haven’t left you a trade feedback yet.
As we want everyone to partecipate, I’d ask people from Germany / The Netherlands if they’d have the option to represent a nearby country (Belgium/Luxembourg/Austria/Poland/France) if needed.
Check your inbox. I sent a BM to all of you here on the forum.
Deadline to send beers is December the 11th.
Once you receive your box, post your haul here and try to guess who your Santa is. If everyone got his trade section updated, I think this time we have a 90% rate of new pairings. And a 0% rate of pairings with people you swapped with in the last 12 months.
For questions or doubts, feel free to contact me anytime!
@Erzengel t’was me
Sorry for the large amount of Pilseners and Weizens, but you stated in your preferences that you prefer very regional beers. All the beers from Browar Wirtuozeria, Borwar Wawrzyniec and Browar Zarzecze are located within about 20 km’s of where I live. Unfortnately they don’t do any “new wave” styles, so that’s the reason for the large amount of “old school” styles
The Pinta beer is also distributed regionally.
The “Tropical Wild” beer is a limited edition that was produced for the occasion of the Brewer’s 5th anniversary and is limited to 4120 bottles.
The mead is only available at one of pottery shops in Bolesławiec, I was there the other day and thought it would be a nice item for the exchange. I’m relieved that it didn’t break on the way.
No problem! The “regional factor” was much more important for me as I like to try beers that are local and have a very small distribution range So thank you so much for this great parcel!
My box arrived a few days ago and didn’t have time to post it before. What an amazing selection from the UK even Mince pies for Christmas experience. Awesome. Thank you so much I am still not sure who this could be
Today I received a box from my Secret Santa in Slovakia
A great selection of 13 beers, one beermalade and a letter with notes on the beers. Really looking forward to share these beers with my brothers on Christmas. Really interesting sounding beers included.
Santa was generous this year! 16 bottles as well as some Lebkuchen. A nice mix of traditional German styles and some tasty looking IPAs. New breweries for me too. Safely packed and tasty looking.
As for who my santa was, since lots of the beers are from Rheinland-Pfalz, my guess is @rhoihessegold . Am I correct?
- just need a bit more time to figure out who you are 
Santa was generous this year! 16 bottles as well as some Lebkuchen. A nice mix of traditional German styles and some tasty looking IPAs. New breweries for me too. Safely packed and tasty looking.
