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Which attribute is most important when choosing equipment and ingredient providers?

Customer Service
5 (23.8%)
Product Quality
9 (42.9%)
Competitive Prices
6 (28.6%)
Fast Shipping (Online orders)
0 (0%)
Other (Please comment)
1 (4.8%)

Total Members Voted: 21

Voting closed: January 04, 2015, 11:10:14 am

Author Topic: What Home-Brewers Want From Their Suppliers  (Read 2331 times)

Offline HoosierBrew

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Re: What Home-Brewers Want From Their Suppliers
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2014, 04:53:54 pm »
I buy all of my hops online once or twice a year. Does anybody else feel shameful when they guy at the LHBS asks if you need hops with your grains?

Yeah. I'm all about my LHBS. Except for buying hops. Hard to beat YVH or a few others for quality and bulk savings.
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Offline HobsonDrake

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Re: What Home-Brewers Want From Their Suppliers
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2014, 04:54:35 pm »
Check out my brew history and recipes at http://www.hobsondrake.com/BrewList.html

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Offline ynotbrusum

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Re: What Home-Brewers Want From Their Suppliers
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2014, 07:18:10 pm »
I get staple hops in bulk, but I buy specialty hops at the LHBS, together with sacks of grain.  Nothing but help when I ask and because I buy regularly, I get special discounted deals on things that they have - such as yeast that is not yet expired, but getting legs...which I gladly use for a starter without issue or first shot at something new that is coming out.  I prefer to keep the LHBS in business, but I'm not going to pay excessively for the basic stuff.  So for me it's convenience (service?), with price lagging a bit behind that.
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