Tard sale score

[Mismost]

So, I've been on the road all week as your basic traveling salesman. Tired of driving and needing a break and I see this HUGE YARD SALE sign. Normally I do not even slow down, but today I just needed to stretch my legs, so I stop. Big sale, several families, lotta junk.

Walked around back and there is whole table full of brew stuff. I am looking, plugging numbers into my calculator, and the guys walks up and says 100 bucks takes it all...I said DONE.

Brinkman kettle...big, dont how big yet, strainer, valve, lid
two kegs and two CO2 rigs...I know squat about these things
two 7 gallon ferment buckets
one 5 glass carboy
one 3 glass carboy
funnel with stainer
boxes of PET bottles
20 of the bigger flip top bottles
and a couple of boxes of "stuff"...chems, yeasts, hoses, airlocks, wine bottles

Loading up my car a guy drives up and says Dang man...I just went to get some money to buy one of the keg rigs! I asked if would give me a 100 bucks...and he said heck yeah! I got some good free stuff outta this deal.

In reality...it'll cost me a bunch of money...brewing more, gotta buy a keg box...wife is never gonna believe I came out at no cost...but I still feel like I hit a mini lottery!

 

[masonsjax]

Derp

 

[hezagenius]

Pics or it didn't happen

 

[masonsjax]

Maybe I should stop at some of those yard sales my wife always nags me to stop for.
...nah, that'll cost more in the long run than buying everything retail.

 

[NathPowe]

I always miss all the good Tard Sales.

Nice work dude. Cheers.

 

[jakenbacon]

So, I've been on the road all week as your basic traveling salesman. Tired of driving and needing a break and I see this HUGE YARD SALE sign. Normally I do not even slow down, but today I just needed to stretch my legs, so I stop. Big sale, several families, lotta junk.

Walked around back and there is whole table full of brew stuff. I am looking, plugging numbers into my calculator, and the guys walks up and says 100 bucks takes it all...I said DONE.

Brinkman kettle...big, dont how big yet, strainer, valve, lid
two kegs and two CO2 rigs...I know squat about these things
two 7 gallon ferment buckets
one 5 glass carboy
one 3 glass carboy
funnel with stainer
boxes of PET bottles
20 of the bigger flip top bottles
and a couple of boxes of "stuff"...chems, yeasts, hoses, airlocks, wine bottles

Loading up my car a guy drives up and says Dang man...I just went to get some money to buy one of the keg rigs! I asked if would give me a 100 bucks...and he said heck yeah! I got some good free stuff outta this deal.

In reality...it'll cost me a bunch of money...brewing more, gotta buy a keg box...wife is never gonna believe I came out at no cost...but I still feel like I hit a mini lottery!

F U bro......

 

[HumulusHead]

Nice haul man! My woman loves sappy books and movies, this kinda story I guess would be my equivalent. Ha

 

[Mismost]

Wasn't a brinkman...kettle is a Brewer Best....I saw the B and thought Brinkman.....got all the dust off so I could read it now.

Bunch chemicals, spices, tannin, acid blends, yeast nutrients, spoons, brushes, thermometer, siphons, hygrometers, a bucket fun of stuff and a home made wort chiller.

Any ideas on how to clean out a wine smell from the plastic buckets?

 

[TallDan]

Wasn't a brinkman...kettle is a Brewer Best....I saw the B and thought Brinkman.....got all the dust off so I could read it now.

Bunch chemicals, spices, tannin, acid blends, yeast nutrients, spoons, brushes, thermometer, siphons, hygrometers, a bucket fun of stuff and a home made wort chiller.

Any ideas on how to clean out a wine smell from the plastic buckets?

1. frow 'em away
2. buy new ones
3. ???
4. BEER!

-or-

1. don't
2. ???
3. WINE!

 

[slym2none]

Dude... any deal where you can buy something and then sell part of it off for what you paid for all of it...

*wipes away tear*

...that's beautiful, man.

 

[RM-MN]

Wasn't a brinkman...kettle is a Brewer Best....I saw the B and thought Brinkman.....got all the dust off so I could read it now.

Bunch chemicals, spices, tannin, acid blends, yeast nutrients, spoons, brushes, thermometer, siphons, hygrometers, a bucket fun of stuff and a home made wort chiller.

Any ideas on how to clean out a wine smell from the plastic buckets?

Brew a batch of beer in the buckets. The wine smell will be gone, replaced by the smell of beer that will be just as hard to make go away.

 

[GrogNerd]

only homebrew stuff I've ever scored at a yard sale, one had a 5-gallon glass carboy for $5

got home to clean it, there was a dime stuck on the bottom I hadn't noticed.

so $4.90 SCORE!

 

[unionrdr]

Try soaking them in cleaner for a couple days, rinse & hit it with sanitizer. Works for me.