Morning everyone, will try my best to answer throughout the day. I understand many members here have much more experience than me and have seen new labs come in and out weekly. I don't want to come here and think "I'm unique, I'm different, I'm going to succeed where everyone else failed". I realize it's a very real possibility that bad raws will completely destroy the operation. I'm far from the titanic, and even that failed, just a small UGL trying to get a small proportion of the market. I won't lie to everyone and say that I will be able to handle the traffic if it gets heavy. I realize my shortcomings, including testing, operational capacity, and less than ideal brewing environments but I am hoping if I can slowly grow (rather than all at once) I will be able to better adapt to any issues that may arise. If I have 10 customers who have bad product that will be manageable to compensate and investigate, but if I have 100 there is no way I could manage that. My intentions on posting here are to get a bit more exposure and more customers, yes, but I will try my best to limit myself to what I can handle. I also do not have any aspirations to get big, both for safety and time reasons. I believe this community would be a good place for me to learn lots of quality testing techniques and this would be beneficial to me even if I fail.
Again, I acknowledge that I am no different than other source that comes in and out weekly. I seem to have gotten good feedback with showing my honest intentions, but I also realize good intentions might go out the window when you can't handle the traffic. As for the community, I ask to give me a chance. I'm not asking to blindly give it to me either, I realize I have to work for it and I am willing to do that. Thanks again for everyone's involvement and feedback thus far.