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Re: Hop contracts and obtaining hops
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2014, 10:30:46 am »
I'm finding most hops to be available on the secondary market for a bit of a premiuim price. I would have preferred to have gone the contract route earlier on in our process, but wasn't absolutely sure that we would get the brewery off the ground. Now that we're moving along at a much better pace, I'll start working on some contracts. For the time being we'll be using the secondary markets. We'll survive one way or another.
Ron Price

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Re: Hop contracts and obtaining hops
« Reply #31 on: May 11, 2014, 10:00:38 am »
I'm finding most hops to be available on the secondary market for a bit of a premiuim price. I would have preferred to have gone the contract route earlier on in our process, but wasn't absolutely sure that we would get the brewery off the ground. Now that we're moving along at a much better pace, I'll start working on some contracts. For the time being we'll be using the secondary markets. We'll survive one way or another.

Glad to hear things are moving ahead, Ron!  Congrats!
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Re: Hop contracts and obtaining hops
« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2014, 10:28:49 am »

I'm finding most hops to be available on the secondary market for a bit of a premiuim price. I would have preferred to have gone the contract route earlier on in our process, but wasn't absolutely sure that we would get the brewery off the ground. Now that we're moving along at a much better pace, I'll start working on some contracts. For the time being we'll be using the secondary markets. We'll survive one way or another.

Glad to hear things are moving ahead, Ron!  Congrats!
Thanks...and best of luck to you too!
Ron Price