beerguykw wrote:Thanks for the welcome. I am really just trying to get a feel for the trading thing as I haven't done it before.
However, the Bell's Expedition is rated right along with the KBS:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
Trading often has more to do with scarcity of the beer than ratings. Both KBS and BCS are difficult to come by, very difficult actually. Whereas I could go to Michigan today and find both of your beers on the shelf. So, while I won't argue that Expedition is a fantastic beer (because it is), you'd be hard pressed to find anyone willing to part with KBS or BCS to get. I, for example, would love some Expedition and I have both KBS and BCS that I could trade, but I wouldn't even consider it.
Beer trading can be very difficult, especially since it is very hard to keep up with all of the different beers out there and when/where they are released and in what quantity.
Now, having said all that, the trading scene in Ontario is often very different because any American beer is generally difficult to come by (save for a road trip to NY, MI, etc.) so you'll often find that people on BT are more willing to make trades of American for American beer even if one beer is a little more hard to come by than the other. However, in your case, you are essentially offering year-round shelf beer (or half year-round in the case of Expedition) for limited release stuff that sells out in a matter of hours in most places it is distributed to. So there is a fairly big gap there.
