I can't help it, this thread is simply to brag!

My quest to find affordable grain is finally over!

All Briess grains:

50lb 2row
50lb pale ale
20lb 40L Cyrstal
10lb Black
10lb Chocolate
10lb Roasted

....wait for it....

$79!

How?

And, oh yeah, you suck.

Great catch...oh and I agree with Shecky on the sucking thing.

$79 for 150lbs of grain!??!!? What's the catch? Who did you have to kill to get that deal?

Yeah come on...spill the beans.....so we can learn and hate at the same time...

Jerktwaddle

By the way this is what we do on brag threads...so don't take it personally...but enjoy the creativity of our invectives...

I fully expected it. I always get shafted on the great craigslist finds, so this gives me a small feeling of redemption. Its all ****e luck. I was able to piggyback an order with a local brewery. They gave me their cost on everything! As I told the brewmaster, I almost feel guilty taking him up on the offer!

If you do this again, let me know! I'd gladly drive up to you in order to get those prices.

Will do Anthony!

Well I just got done bagging/bucketing my bulk grain order. The dust created from dumping a sack of 2row into buckets damn near choked me.

+1 to whoever recommended homer buckets from Home Depot. I picked up 4 with lids and the total was right around 15 bucks. As stated, two buckets will hold a 50lb sack of grain. The specialty grains I just bagged into large ziplock bags (about 5lb a piece) and am storing the whole kit'n'kabootle in my basement (it stays a dry 60-65 degrees down there thanks to mr pellet stove)

Now the only thing left to do is brew! *sets his eyes on saturday*

That's amazing!

How long will grains keep like that? I was thinking about doing a bulk grain buy and was curious how long they woudl stay... assuming you seal 'em up really tight like you're doing and keep them in a decent spot?

They are uncrushed grains...so long as I keep them cool and dry the consensus from my research has been they will easily keep for many months...possibly even more than a year.

You absolutely, totally suck.

cabot said:

I fully expected it. I always get shafted on the great craigslist finds, so this gives me a small feeling of redemption. Its all ****e luck. I was able to piggyback an order with a local brewery. They gave me their cost on everything! As I told the brewmaster, I almost feel guilty taking him up on the offer!

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I was just about to posit that as my guess. I'm doing the same thing here---I recently wrote an article for a magazine on a local brewer. I'd known the guy for awhile and had snagged yeast from his conicals from time to time...but when I was out there doing the interview, he offered to get me what I need (if he had it) at his cost. So far the only thing I've needed was a sack of 2-row, which was $25 for 50 lbs. Soon, though, he's getting a new shipment of Warminster MO in. I remember paying $65 for a sack of Munton's MO, and from what this guy says, floor-malted Warminster is head and shoulders above Muntons, etc. And it's all of like $0.70/lb. Ha!