E/SE Nebraska Group Buy June/July 2014

Paid up. Thanks a bunch Tre and sfgoat!

Paid

Order placed, confirmed, paid, and grain *should* be here Tuesday, but we'll see and I'll let everyone know the pickup plan.

Grain has arrived. Five bags are damaged, to what extent I don't know because they delivered it to my residence instead of my work. Wife had to help the driver break down the pallet and stack grain in the garage

Driver indicated the forklift drivers smoke pot...he noted 5 bags damaged. Wife says hardly anything was lost, but we'll see.

Please see the email I sent and arrange with me for pickup. I will deliver up to 5 bags within Lincoln city limits for $5, more than 5 for $10.

I will be in Lincoln Friday, I can pick up omaha grain to bring back for anyone who ordered in omaha.

Just let me know.

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I wont be able to meet up with Tre on Friday for grain. I have to be back in Omaha to work before he is available.

Stovetop535 said:

I will be in Lincoln Friday, I can pick up omaha grain to bring back for anyone who ordered in omaha.

Just let me know.

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If you have space to pick up mine and BSDrews bags (total of 3 and one #1 of hops) that'd be awesome

I just want to make sure that everyone here knows about the 2014 Midwest Homebrew Invitational (Formerly Homegrown Homebrewers Festival).
It should be a lot a fun. Here is the HBT link that has some of the basic info and links to sign up.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f224/2...l-formerly-homegrown-homebrewers-fest-484530/

Would love to be a part of the next group buy. Would subscribing to this thread beneficial ? I live in omaha.


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Hey guys, I have a friend that has been sitting on 8-10 ball lock kegs and he would like to get rid of them. If there is anyone who would like them I will recondition them and offer them for sale. We'll ask $55 each, but I haven't seen them yet, so I will lower that if they are in bad shape. I'm posting here because I want to keep it local.

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Hey guys, I have a friend that has been sitting on 8-10 ball lock kegs and he would like to get rid of them. If there is anyone who would like them I will recondition them and offer them for sale. We'll ask $55 each, but I haven't seen them yet, so I will lower that if they are in bad shape. I'm posting here because I want to keep it local.

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I may be interested in one or two.

kizyle01 said:

Would love to be a part of the next group buy. Would subscribing to this thread beneficial ? I live in omaha.


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Yes subscribe if you want to know about the next one. Whenever we decide to do it again we will create a new thread and link it here.

Omaha here as well and can bring others to the table

Might not be a bad idea to start another of these around the time tax refunds start rolling in.

Agreed! I could use a few bags.

For those that are interested in doing another, Tre (the guy who usually puts these together) has moved to Georgia but I am talking with him and getting details so that I can run things moving forward. The big issue is receiving the grain. I live in plattsmouth and can receive the grain either at my house or storage unit but it probably isn't a very convenient location to pick up for everyone. So if anyone has a large garage or outbuilding that would like to volunteer to receive and distribute the grain and stuff please let me know. But I will continue working on getting this going again.

Any update on when to expect another group buy?

I'm hoping to try and put one together for tax time but still need to figure out where we would have it delivered to as the guy that usually does it has moved away.

Just an update. This is going to take some time to get off the ground due to some legal loopholes in dealing with the country malt group anymore. Tre had it all figured out and with him gone I basically have to start from scratch here.

sfgoat said:

Just an update. This is going to take some time to get off the ground due to some legal loopholes in dealing with the country malt group anymore. Tre had it all figured out and with him gone I basically have to start from scratch here.

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Let us know if we can help in some way. Would love to see this happen.

My post went through twice. Please ignore.

Well the issue is is tre had essentially a legal business formation through an LLC but I don't have that I don't know very many of us that do so basically they refuse to sell to homebrewers anymore so you have to be registered as a business to basically do any business with them so unless I can get that on under way and create some sort of front business in which I'm just pretending to be selling grain out of my garage then I don't know if it's going to be able to happen

Well I created a fake business of sorts and applied as a customer today. Should here back as to whether or not I've been approved in a few days. I certainly want to keep this going as well as I sure do enjoy getting my grain for cheap. The shipping prices might increase a little because I don't have a loading dock so we will have to pay for a lift gate but spread out amongst all of us I think it will be a relatively small increase.

Well good news everyone. I finally have my account with country malt group set up and we can get a group buy going. If people have a need for grain I will have an updated spreadsheet put up soon and we can start compiling an order just in time for tax refunds. The only issue that might arise for some is that I live in plattsmouth so no more Lincoln pick ups. Also my delivery situation is not the most ideal as I don't have a lot of space to hold bags for those who can't pick up right away. So if someone with a large garage or outbuilding wants to volunteer to receive and distribute grain it would be better but we can still make it work at my place if need be. I will be sending out the link with the updated spreadsheets soon and will also create a HBT thread so that bag splits can be discussed openly. Thanks Everyone.

Thread for the new grain buy is here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f174/e-se-nebraska-group-buy-2015-a-515003/