After many years of buying, selling, trading, traveling, attending countless beer festivals all over the county and numerous “beercations” in the US and Europe, I have met many fantastic people and beer lovers and formed some great networks and relationships with brewers, beer reps and others in the craft beer industry. If you have been invited to join this site, then you have bought or traded beer with me at least once in the past, or you have been referred by someone who has and who has vouched for your reputation as a buyer and/or trader.
The idea behind this site is to simply have a trusted place for a select group of people who are always looking to acquire some of the very limited and harder-to-find bottles and to be able to buy them without a “middleman” like either of the MBC sites, Reddit, Facebook ISO/FT pages, Razzles, etc. Most of these methods require you to act on faith and it can just get to be a headache and even a bit sketchy when you are not quite sure who you are dealing with on the other end. Since this is a semi-private site, often the quantities available are small, and I would rather people I have worked with in past have the opportunity to acquire them if they want. The bottles for sale on this site were either acquired by me personally, or I am selling them on behalf of a select group of people with whom I have developed relationships and I know how they acquire and store their bottles. For these reasons you can be confident that the bottles have been properly cared for and stored and not traded and flipped over and over and stored in God knows what kind of conditions. Because, let’s face it, if you are spending the kind of money that many of these bottles cost, the less variables that are left to chance the more confident you can be that you will receive what you paid for in good shape and good quality.
As far as payment, the “checkout” process will require you to add your shipping and contact info, but no credit cards are processed through the site. Once your order is placed, you will receive an email with a summary of your order and instructions to pay via either PayPal (Friends & Family payments are preferred but not required) or Venmo. This cuts out the PayPal and credit card fees and allows for the pricing on this site to be simple and straight forward. However, if you want the buyer protection that comes with a regular “goods and services” PayPal payment, you are free to do that, I just ask that you pay the 3% fee that PayPal charges for that service (4.5% for international orders). Since you have done business with me before, you can be confident that I am an honest person with a reputation that I care to protect and stand behind, and if you ever receive a bottle that is not what you expected, I will happily take it back and give you a full refund minus the shipping cost. If you ever have any concerns or questions, just shoot me an email (beerrevere615@gmail.com) and I’ll do my best to help.
Cheers!
SVT