Subject: Digest for the period 2/5/2007 - 2/6/2007 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:01:46 -0500 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Beer judge update (Ed Westemeier) 2. Packing beer for shipping (Bob Paolino) 3. Packaging for shipping (Jon Tobey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ed Westemeier Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 08:23:49 -0500 Subject: Beer judge update Beer judges interested in the BJCP's inner workings can find the 2006 Annual Report on the website (www.bjcp.org). This is a comprehensive review of the year's activity, and brings you up to date on all our projects. Ed Westemeier BJCP Communication Director communication_director`at`bjcp.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bob Paolino Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:55:02 -0500 Subject: Packing beer for shipping When you pack your beers, think also about the person who has to open the package. Yes, this is advice to avoid foam "peanuts" that are going to spill all over the place and make a mess. Here's how I've done it. Each bottle gets wrapped in newspaper, the bottles go in a six pack, and the six pack (or two six packs... try to avoid doing more than that in a single box for weight/size considerations... besides, do you really have that many different entries that are really worthy, or are you just taking the shotgun approach hoping that _something_ might win if you hit a weak category; please have some consideration for the judges and send only your BEST beers :-) :-) ) gets double or triple bagged in plastic grocery sacks. I routinely put foam meat or bakery trays in the dishwasher along with my dishes anyway because I can take them (if clean) to recycling drop-off (my city has limited curbside recycling that doesn't include that category), so I use appropriate sized trays on the top and bottom of the six pack inside the bag, and also put trays in the box, top and bottom and around the sides (the latter with the open side of the tray facing the side of the bo! x rather than the six pack. It seems to work well, and the recipient doesn't have to deal with a mess of foam "peanuts" all over the place. Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino "Are Canadians just Americans who carry hockey sticks instead of guns, or is there more to it than that?" --"This Canadian Existence" Wisconsin Public Radio ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting frowned upon? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jon Tobey Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:17:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Packaging for shipping Any wine store will have 1, 2, 3, 6, or 12 bottle styrofoam mailers. You can just pad the neck of the bottle with newspaper if the rattling makes you nervous. JudgeNet - the beer judge digest wrote: Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. re: Packaging of entries ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jeff_ri Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:55:49 -0500 Subject: re: Packaging of entries Hi All, Dick asked about packaging bottles for shipping. Two things are critical to good packaging: the bottles can't come into contact with each other, or the sides of the box. For competitions I usually use a wine case box (12 bottles, 750ml) with the cardboard dividers. For just a couple of bottles I would use a box about 12x12x14. Wrap each bottle in bubble wrap and tape. Pack the bubble wrapped bottles into the box using crumpled up newspaper on all sides of the bottles (top, bottom, and sides) so that they can't move. Crumpled up newspaper works better than the styrofoam peanuts because the peanuts can shift around and let the bottles move around. I've shipped entries to many competitions this way and never had a bottle break. As someone else mentioned, if you don't trust the packaging to protect the box/bottles from a 5 foot drop it's probably not good enough. Jeff McNally Tiverton, RI South Shore Brew Club ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Important Subscriber Information ***** To post a message to JudgeNet, send it to judge`at`synchro.com. Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments. Make sure you use a meaningful subject. Quote only as much material as is needed for context. 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