In short: both participants and non-participants in the cask can taste the cask samples.
That said, there are some guidelines we follow:
- When the cask samples become available in the casQ shop, the participants of the cask have the exclusive option to purchase a cask sample first. This is only during the first week that the cask samples are in the casQ shop.
- After the first week with exclusivity for the participants, they become available to all other casQueteers as well.
- Everyone who purchased / tasted the cask sample is welcome to submit his / her feedback through the online survey and to provide further feedback and / or share tasting notes on the casQ forum in the relevant cask topic.
- An eye is kept in the background who provided which feedback as the feedback of participants can be a reason to deviate from the numeric results of the poll. When this happens then it will be explained.