I heard the feedback and we reconsidered, well, pretty much everything. Gotta own up when I muck something up, and it sure appears that I did! I thought this whole thing would be a fun way to engage folks in a new chapter of our adventure, but I see that it seemed like it was panhandling for money. I know I look a bit fuzzy around the edges personally, but I'm not wanting to be hat-in-hand! ;-]-= It's not the worst mistake in my life, but I'd rather you guys be stoked with the plan than to look at it and think we're trying to game you.



So, anyway, I appreciate everyone's feedback. We redid everything to change it to what we hope you'll see is an exceedingly good deal. I think it's a fun way to fund what we're promising will be some really interesting beers in a bit of a reversal of the normal brew-it-then-sell-it model. Instead this is a sell-it-and-then-make-sure-we-over-deliver-on-our-promise model. True, it might not be a model that works for everyone due to logistics, or not wanting to pay now and get the beer later, or because they just think that personally I'm a [fill in your favorite personal insult here]. Of course, we've made a career of doing things that don't work for most people, but some folks think are awesome.



So, I think we're in awesome territory on what we're offering with 1.5Litre bottles and the "Team Stone" privileges for a day when you come to pick them up. If you think you'll visit Stone in the future, it's kinda a no-brainer proposition. Even if you have to send a mule and they get the privileges, it still ain't a bad deal IF we deliver on our promises with the beers...and, well, that's what we always have to do our best to do every day, and we've got a pretty decent track record overall in the grand scheme...and I think this format of pre-sold will really set the stage for us to get over the top in a great way with the recipes and end results.



So, from one beer geek to all of you, cheers! -Greg.

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