Im looking for a cheap place online to order grain from. Im looking to buy some US 2row pale malt. If it makes a difference, I am located in Upstate NY.
thanks in advance.
We have a 200 pound 2-row option on our website with $6.99 shipping on the first item and free shipping on the rest of your order.
Here is a link: Bulk 2-row
Forrest
Austin Homebrew Supply
How can you afford to do that? I wish I could afford to buy it.
We have a 200 pound 2-row option on our website with $6.99 shipping on the first item and free shipping on the rest of your order.
Here is a link: Bulk 2-row
Forrest
Austin Homebrew Supply
How is that 200 lbs packaged? I may be interested in bringing that up to CT....
I use the country malt group. They have great prices if you can get a bulk order together.
I could locally until the LHBS upped the prices in the Summer. It went from $45 a sack to $65.Can you buy 200 pounds of 2-row for less than $1.149 a pound delivered in Juneau AK?
Well, in that case you're more expensive than MoreBeer, Midwest, NorthernBrewer or my LHBS to my location. $229.95 + 524.20 shipping UPS Ground = $3.77/lb, yuck!When comparing prices you need to include shipping.
I buy my grain at Friar Tucks, a regional super-liquor store. There is no other LHBS for me. They carry 1lb bags at $1.59 or 10lb at $12. I've tried to talk them into carrying 55lb sacks, but they won't do it.
Someday, when I finish grad school, I'm going to open one of those homebrew stores/brew-it-on-premises places. Who needs a PhD when there is homebrew.
I could locally until the LHBS upped the prices in the Summer. It went from $45 a sack to $65.
I still can get it cheaper though BrewBrothers in Portland or Larry's in Seattle area... taking advantage of work shipping discounts though.
Well, in that case you're more expensive than MoreBeer, Midwest, NorthernBrewer or my LHBS to my location. $229.95 + 524.20 shipping UPS Ground = $3.77/lb, yuck!
My comment wasn't really to tear you down, you just have a different business model. You charge more for malt price, but that's really to make up for the flat price you charge for shipping, except in my case where I pay actual rates. Others advertise a lower cost of malt but you have to pay actual shipping charges.
Brew Brothers - Malt by the Bag, 200 lbs would be 132 (can order 50 at a time - 33 a bag - .66/lb). Close enough that I can pick up. Maybe $10 gas money if I'm floored there and back ;-)
My LHBS charges 60/bag of the same...
How much do they charge for shipping to upstate NY? Just curious.
Now that I did the math, why am I doing this?
BrewBrothers doesn't ship yet. They deliver orders in the Portland metro area though if you spend $200, or you pickup.
That's probably why everyone else charges actual shipping Though I'm sure you've got to be making a profit elsewhere to make up for it or you're swimming in the red...
What maltster do you guys use for 2-Row by the way? Personally I'd add something on the page that says you're cheaper than most on the page with shipping included and that it's available for the flat shipping. I wouldn't be surprised if some people saw the higher prices and went elsewhere or figured it wasn't included in the flat shipping like how sacks of grain is not with other shops.
Uhhh you'd have to be making it up elsewhere... unless you're saying every product you sell has a negative profit margin.We don't "make it up" somewhere. We just have a much lower margin.
I am glad Forrest is doing what he is doing but I still could not afford that price. I drive to North Country and buy my 55# sac's of 2-row for $35 or .63 cents a pound. I think it would be worth a drive if your are near New York or Chicago. No offense Forrset just a cheap ass home Brewer trying to stretch his penny's
Uhhh you'd have to be making it up elsewhere... unless you're saying every product you sell has a negative profit margin.
Most people make the wrong assumption that all homebrew stores have to make the same margin. We don't charge extra on other items to make up for something we don't make money on. Then you would never buy that other item. We just make less margin.
Forrest
morebeer does not have 5 lb bags. they have a 3 lb bag for 11.25.
morebeer does not have 5 lb bags. they have a 3 lb bag for 11.25.
they're the same price as austin (just about) but I'd rather go austin anyday.
Are you saying you decided on a certain margin and that is what you put on everything? I doubt anyone would begrudge you taking a larger margin on items where the market will bear it. I work in wholesale restaurant supply and there is a large difference in our equipment margins vs our smallwares and it is all based on the average prices people pay for a given item.I think we are on the same page now. Some people think that all stores make the same margin and we overcharge on some things to make up for the other things.
Forrest
Are you saying you decided on a certain margin and that is what you put on everything? I doubt anyone would begrudge you taking a larger margin on items where the market will bear it. I work in wholesale restaurant supply and there is a large difference in our equipment margins vs our smallwares and it is all based on the average prices people pay for a given item.
Truth be told, if you decide that you need a certain margin at the bottom line and you lose money or break even on some items you are indeed "making it up somewhere" or you would not be profitable. Balance sheet must balance.I have different margins on different items. But it is far less margin than stores that chrage full shipping. I am not "making it up somewhere".
Forrest
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