This will really raise my brewing costs if they stop selling in bulk to homebrewer clubs
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We recently acquired Brewcraft and intend to open up other distribution points in the near future.
However, we appreciate the continued business our loyal homebrew customers have given us. With that being said we intend to continue to make our current product line available to our current home brew accounts but we will not be accepting new home brew customers. Homebrew customers who have done business with North Country Malt Supply and Mid Country Malt Supply over the past 12 months can place orders by calling our toll free number (NC: 888-368-5571 - MC: 866-428-1438) or by e-mailing: orders@northcountrymalt.com.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kelly J. Kuehl - Director of Sales
The Country Malt Group
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Ouch. I hope they don’t discontinue it completely at some point, even for those who have ordered in the past. Just got a new sack of MO and a pound of hallertauer mittelfreuh pellets from them the other week.
No, but they are becoming distributors.
The only homebrew shop they were ever associated is one in Maryland. Hopefully they will still allow full pallet orders, otherwise I’ll have to incoorperate my homebrew name
I’d say their acquisition of BrewCraft pretty much sums it up. BrewCraft is NCM’s new distribution channel for homebrewers like us. Maybe they’ll continue to sell pallet loads?? If they do I bet they discontinue it within the next year or so, or make the minimum order qty unrealistic for a homebrewer and most clubs. My 2 cents anyway…
They’re not becoming distributors, but they have acquired a distribution company and are there fore protecting them. Unless I’m mistaken, they’re still wholesalers as well.
That sucks. We have a guy in the Denver area that arranges a group by twice a year. We usually get enough to fill 2 pallets sometimes 3. I hope we can still place orders for these group buys. It saves me tons of money.
[quote]We recently acquired Brewcraft and intend to open up other distribution points in the near future. However, we appreciate the continued business our loyal homebrew customers have given us. With that being said we intend to continue to make our current product line available to our current home brew accounts but we will not be accepting new home brew customers. Homebrew customers who have done business with North Country Malt Supply and Mid Country Malt Supply over the past 12 months can place orders by calling our toll free number (NC: 888-368-5571 - MC: 866-428-1438) or by e-mailing: orders@northcountrymalt.com. Thank you for your continued support. Kelly J. Kuehl - Director of Sales The Country Malt Group
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Another person posted that smaller quantities - single bags, etc. will be directed to Brewcraft. I like/liked buying from Mid-Country b/c they are only ten mins. from my house!
Sorry to hear it. Currently living in a grain dead-zone due to prohibitive shipping costs. I have to get it from the LHBS. Hopefully my own expense will stay the same. :-\
Me too! I hope the prior customer thing holds up for a bit, although I bought a couple of sacks last month. What’s funny was that was the first time I saw them selling less than sack amounts of grain off the dock at MCM, They said they had started that recently so this seems like an abrupt change for the company.
You can get full sacks of grain from www.brewmasterswarehouse.com and they only charge the flat rate shipping of $6.99. There are also discount codes for the Brewing Network and HBT for 10% off.
After all that, it’s still more expensive than NCM. Hopefully you can get some deals from your LHBS.
AHS free shipping on orders over $100 and $52 sacks of Great Western 2-row is the cheapest I can get ($1.04 lb.) The shipping killed the deal for me from NCM anyway. It would have been nice if there was a South Western Country Malt. Hopefully this move will bring my prices down somehow.
I was actually just writing about this stuff. May have to call me article back in. damn.
The other options if NCM drops pallet deliveries:
Enlist your local homebrew shop - "If I buy X sacks of grain, will you cut us a deal? If 10 members of the club agree to do the same?
Enlist your local brewery. If you’re on good terms with the brewery, they’ll usually throw a couple of sacks in their order for you
Get 5 of your bestest buddies and call your local malt distributor. Cargill, Great Western, etc. Order a ton of grain through them and have it delivered to a business address. This is how I just bought 320lbs of grain for ~$170.
As far as I remember AHS has 40# sacks of malt and they don’t qualify for the special shipping rate either. I researched it a few years back- as a region Texas doesn’t do barley. Closest was Colorado. So no Maltsters.
You can buy 200 lbs. of 2 row for $200 and get free shipping. Everything else is indeed a 40 lb. bag in bulk. But yes, if you spend $100 +, you do get free shipping on everything it appears . . .