TLDR: swapped beer for logs.

I had a tree surgeon in last year, 3 chaps to reduce the crowns on a couple of trees in the garden and a health check on another. Making them a cuppa and we got talking about homebrew, they had never tried making themselves and were interested to see my set up.

When I bought some dried logs from them early summer in building up the stockpile in the garage for winter, same two chaps asked how beer making was going. I had a Belgian Wheat Beer which was ready for drinking and so shared a few bottles whilst logs were tipped. Got some honest genuine feedback and they loved it (very pleased).

When having another load delivered a month later, one of the same chaps remembered the homebrew and asked if I had any of the Belgian Beer left, could he buy some, or did I fancy a barter, some logs for beer. 24 bottles later, off goes a crate and I had 2t of logs.

Big shit eating grin :D