Win a year’s supply of beer!

Last week I brought you the opportunity to become Bud Light’s Superbowl correspondent. This week brings an even more interesting contest. The folks at Black Star Beer are looking to give away a year’s supply of beer and a weekend of awesomeness in Montana.

Both parts alone are well worth consideration, but it’s the total package that piqued my interest. The challenge is to win the Black Star Beer Barter, which is exactly what it sounds like. People offer up something they think might be worth 52 cases of beer, and the winner is chosen by a panel of judges. The barter takes place in Whitefish, Montana as part of a their winter carnival. It started in the 90s with a whimsical ad in the paper. Last year, it turned into more of an event, and this year it grows even more,  getting their Facebook page in on the action. People have until Jan. 8th to submit their bartering item on Facebook and then a voting begins on the 9th.

Don’t think you’ve got it in the bag though because you have a lot of friends that you can pay to like your bartering item. That’s only half, and it’s not even the good half. The winner of the Facebook contest wins a free trip to Whitefish to participate in the actual beer barter. There you will compete with 50 or so Montanians(?) to take home the 15,000 ounces of Black Star Beer.

Thankfully for those of you will skills or creativity but not cash, monetary value isn’t the key factor. Offerings can be anything from your old cassette collection (probably won’t win) to abstaining from sex for 12 months (probably not possible) and everything in between. Some of the things offered up thus far are another tour in Iraq (he must hate his wife), getting a Black Star neck tattoo, 100 pictures of a drunk guy, letting someone cattle prod a guy 10 times, and a women even offered to drive to the judge’s house and pour beer in whatever outfit they want.

Regardless of whether you win the beer or not, the weekend sounds like a blast. At first I was very skeptical. I had forgotten Montana even existed, and I couldn’t see myself heading there for a weekend. Then I actually started to think about how fun a few days in a seldom seen part of the country would be. Plus, it’s not like you get there and there is nothing to do. It’s a festival weekend! There’s the barter, a pub crawl, and even a penguin plunge (which most people know as a polar plunge).

I’m sure many of you hadn’t heard of Black Star Beer before this post. That’s because it’s only distributed in Montana and westward. I have had the pleasure of trying it though, and it’s not too shabby. It’s an American Lager, which isn’t my favorite style, but it’s certainly better than most. Picture if MGD or Bud Heavy actually tasted decent, and that’s about what you’re working with.

There you have it. Now put on your drinking thinking cap and come up with something with which to barter. Feel free to leave a comment here once you do and I promise to come like your offering, unless it’s giving up reading my alcohol coverage here on Guyism. Even if you aren’t man enough to enter, it’s worth heading to the contest page to look at more of the ridiculous things people are trying to barter.

Black Star Beer Barter Facebook page

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