Midwest Supplies now offers free shipping

[BrewerBrad82]

Yeah I was looking at this and thinking it might be a good opportunity to pick up some simple AG kits for free shipping, but their cheapest kit is $27 for a wheat beer w/o yeast.

I will have to preface this with the fact that MW and NB are my LHBS, but if you choose the MW Bavarian Wheat AG kit w/yeast (WB-06) it comes to $31.99 shipped. For comparison, I checked out MoreBeer and found the least expensive, but similar, kit I could (German Hefeweizen) and added the cheapest yeast I could (US-05) and then estimated shipping to MN. The total price for the cheapest comparable AG kit with the cheapest yeast shipped to me came out to $33.77. YMMV.

 

[deadwolfbones]

Go above $59 at MoreBeer and you get free shipping, though.

 

[jekeane]

TXBrewing.com is now my go to shop if I have to buy online. They have scaling shipping costs depending on what you spend. They vacuum seal most of their grain. Their prices are very competitive and they aren't owned by InBev.

 

[MaryB]

Ritebrew Golden Promise I got last time was full of trash. I should have asked for a refund but I have a corn cleaner for my pellet/corn stove so I vacuumed it out then ran the malt thru with a finer top screen to get rid of the trash. NB uses Simpson GP and I have yet to get a bad bag and I use one every 4-6 weeks

 

[dallase]

Midwest increased prices on all wine kits and concentrates.

Alexanders concentrates:

old $19.99 new $29.99 (+50%)
old $24.99 new $34.99 (+36%)

Eclipse wine kits

old $159.99 new $209.99 (31%)

The cheap kits that used to be $69 and $79 are now $96 and $116.

Those increases are outrageous. Thats not about covering shipping... thats just pure greed.

 

[deadwolfbones]

Agreed.

Looking around, Atlantic Homebrew Supply seems like my favorite option w/o free ship ($8 flat rate on most items, will double crush grains for free, lets you order in decimals, $7 liquid yeast), and MoreBeer remains the best option for larger orders.