Grain Suppliers and Storage

Many homebrewers purchase grains in bulk.  How do you store your grain and who is your preferred supplier?  Is it an online source, LHBS, or do you take a drive to the maltsters?  Also, which grains do you buy in bulk?  Your base grain, specialty, etc.  I want to buy in bulk, but need clever ways to store the grain since I live in smaller quarters with no garage.

I’ve bought 2-row from Brewmasters Warehouse, mainly because they only charge $6.99 shipping and I have a 10% off code.  I store my grain in a 50 lb Vittle Vault that you can buy at pet supply stores.

I know a lot of people will do a bulk buy with their homebrew club or hit up local breweries and buy a sack or two from them.

I buy my grain by the sack from North Country Malt. Reasonable prices and excellent service.

+1, I’ve been satisfied with them (although my most recent order took three weeks to ship).

Check your LHBS though. I pay roughly the same amount in shipping from NCM as I do for the actual grain, so it ends up costing little more to buy things locally.

Yeah, I ordered a sack of Best Pils malt from them about 10 days ago.  I don’t think it’s shipped yet.  This post just reminded me to send them an email to ping them for a status.

The cost of the 55lb sack was $33 and the shipping was $26 but that’s still better than I can do as far total cost from any other source I’ve been able to find.  I’m currently working my way through a sack of MO and my LHBS should have Golden Promise in stock for about that price so I’ll probably pick up a bag from them once the MO is gone.

Be patient.  Every time I’ve ordered from them, I hear nothing and hear nothing and then suddenly the box appears at my front door.  Then, a week or so later, I get an email (or might have even been snail mail), confirming that it’s shipped.  They need to get a new flux capacitor.

I store in buckets and gamma seal lids.

http://www.gamma2.net/new/GSL.html