I’ve always ordered online from Rebel for the convince. Only thing I would pickup was grain. I’m going all local from now on. It is also in a PIA location for me. Everyone in that business is feeling the squeeze. Hope every purchase local helps him stay around.
I may have located a suitable substitute: Great Fermentations out of Indiana. They have a pretty good looking lineup of ingredients including a local maltster (Sugar Creek) using locally grown grains. I ordered ingredients for a Patersbier Thurs flat rate. It shipped the same day via FedEx and arrived this AM. If the wx holds I may brew this evening to fill an empty fermenter.
Yep, that’s my LHBS. Great shop, been there a long time.
They too were the drop for first round NHC. I used to always drop at Rebel. I knew something was up when they were not a first round spot. GF is a great shop. I wish they were my local. I want to try the Sugar Creek. Sugar Creek was out of stock when I dropped my entries.
Just found another reason I like GF besides fast flat rate shipping and pretty good ingredients selection: they sell in increments of a pound.
My planned watermelon wheat calls for 4.5 lb of wheat and 4.5 lb of Pils. I could have rounded up and bought local but I’d still have to source the yeast the local doesn’t carry. GF had what I wanted.
It always bugged me why the local shop can’t sell me increments of a pound when they are measuring out my grain bill. …why I can get an increment but have to pay by the full pound.
That may be fine when you’re at a low enough volume where you weigh to order, but if you’re chugging through inventory then it would be way more efficient to break a whole sack down into 1#/5#/10# increments at once.
My LHBS weights each order out. I would not categorize their operation as ‘chugging thru inventory’. It’s more like ‘slog thru inventory’. LOL
Reviving an old thread here - but it seems that there’s an estate sale about to happen auctioning off Rebel Brews remaining supplies.