National Homebrew Club of Ireland Comp

[MartinHaworth]

https://competitions.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/

I'd like to enter this, but I'm concerned about the f*ckery around customs and CN22 etc in sending beers to Eire. Can anyone help or advise me please - what is it best to list my entries as.

CN22 here: https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-09/cn22-august-2024.pdf

I would be tempted to list them as a 'gift' of 2 bottles of homebrew for an international hb comp?

Anyone here had any success?

(I note that Panamaju managed it last year from Finland OK!)

 

[SMP Brewery]

Sorry can’t help, but interesting that they don’t accept PET bottles, I wonder if this might become more wide spread.

 

[conorm]

Oh, I've my sister post over all sorts of contraband. E.g. my hop rhizomes that the hop supplier wouldn't post to me. As long as it's from a personal sender to a personal recipient, you'll be fine.

 

[YeastFace]

You can take 16l of beer from Britain to Ireland. If there's enough people it may be cheaper to split the airfare for someone there and back same day to hand deliver them.

 

[MartinHaworth]

You can take 16l of beer from Britain to Ireland. If there's enough people it may be cheaper to split the airfare for someone there and back same day to hand deliver them.

Yeastface takes the 'legend' award for the evening.

I'll mail mine to you then?

 

[nickjdavis]

https://competitions.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/

I'd like to enter this, but I'm concerned about the f*ckery around customs and CN22 etc in sending beers to Eire. Can anyone help or advise me please - what is it best to list my entries as.

CN22 here: https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-09/cn22-august-2024.pdf

I would be tempted to list them as a 'gift' of 2 bottles of homebrew for an international hb comp?

Anyone here had any success?

(I note that Panamaju managed it last year from Finland OK!)

I managed to send beers last year Martin.

Sadly one of them broke but they did get there. I seem to remember having to pay some fees to get the beers released from th far end customs.

I used UPS to do my shipping...created an account. Took me a while to work out the correct tariff codes to use on the shipping declaration....if I enter again I'd probably lie about whats in the box in all honesty and not even mention homebrew.

 

[MartinHaworth]

I managed to send beers last year Martin.

Sadly one of them broke but they did get there. I seem to remember having to pay some fees to get the beers released from th far end customs.

I used UPS to do my shipping...created an account. Took me a while to work out the correct tariff codes to use on the shipping declaration....if I enter again I'd probably lie about whats in the box in all honesty and not even mention homebrew.

Cheers nick, got a kolsch I'm happy with and looking for a comp....