On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, John Roberts wrote:

Hi all,

Nick Dempsey wrote:
Lots of people trade beer, even internationally. If packed properly, in
the kind of styrofoam mailers used by places like Liquid Solutions or
the various beer of the month clobs, that have individual chambers for
each bottle, the risk of breakage is minimal. If you've never traded for
beer from far-off places, you're really missing out, though the shipping
does get to be a bit costly.

--NPD

Does anybody have any experience trading internationally from Canada? I was
under the impression that our customs laws specifically and without
exception prohibited the importing of alcoholic beverages.

Otherwise I'd love to get into this myself, whenever funds are favourable


My understanding is that its illegal even within the US, even though
plenty people still do it. I "know someone" who has sent beer to Canada a
couple of times. One time it was even opened by the customs inspectors,
discovered to contain beer, repacked very poorly, and shipped on to its
intended recipient luckily without breakage.