good places to buy hops in lbs?

[seanmichaleen]

Take an empty jar and use your device to seal it. Then submerge the jar, lid down and straight up and down, not angled. Pry the lid off for a second then replace the lid before taking the jar out of the water.

You'll know how much air your leaving in the jar by how much water was allowed to rush in.

I use a brake bleeder and it pulls around 85% of the air out of the jar. I'm curious to see what kind of vacuum those devices pull

The Reynolds vacuum sealer looks like it is taking between 75-80% of the air from the mason jars. Thanks for the input on how to test it!

 

[Scut_Monkey]

The Reynolds vacuum sealer looks like it is taking between 75-80% of the air from the mason jars. Thanks for the input on how to test it!

Seems like the brake bleader works the best followed closely by the foodsaver and Reynolds which seem to work about the same. Thanks guys for the info. I would have never thought the Reynolds vacuum would pull as well as it does but I know crap. If I can find one I'll be getting it as I don't have much use for a foodsaver besides hop storage. Although Harbor Freight does sell a cheap brake bleader. Hmmmmmm.......

If anyone is interested.
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Alvin-Vacuum-Sealer/

 

[MacBruver]

Only downside to the brake bleeder is that it's manual... well, upside i guess if you don't want to go through batteries. But you better have big forearms if you're doing a lot of vacuuming!

 

[dfohio]

I'm impressed with the Reynolds sealer's performance. If anyone else uses a different method then post the numbers up so we can get an idea of whats out there.

I use the break bleeder, and it takes about 20 pumps per jar. It's not bad at all, except the day I sealed 30 lbs of specialty grains in quart mason jars

 

[The Pol]

About HD shipping costs. Really dudes, call them. Thier shipping isnt bad, considering in many cases they are shipping nearly across the entire country. People have looked up thier shipping cost, and they only charge ACTUAL shipping.

This being said, shipping is aggregate. You will get charged $5 to ship one pound. You will be charged $45 to ship 50 pounds.

So, $5 per pound to ship to $.90 per pound to ship... depends on qty.

Best solution, buy a TON of hops, keep them, sell them on CL or Ebay... or do a group buy and split them with friends or a HB club.

I have 9 pounds in stock and over 20 varieties, all thanks to HD and a group buy this summer that was 50 pounds even! It was slightly under $1000 worth of hops, shipped.