Holt wrote:Thanks for the great advice, Cliff. My kid's college fund thanks you too.
LOL. Ya know, you didn't indicate the quantities you were purchasing.
Is that $30.00 you want to save on a 55# sack? That's about $6.00 per five gallon batch: the cost of a Wyeast smack pak.
You never mentioned that you were going to put that $30.00 aside for a college fund.
Is that really & truly what you planned?
Anyway I think it's fine advice to just buy the MO. What's a lousy $30.00? That's chicken feed.
I suppose I could be way off the mark here, but I never met any one who successfully got into a hobby like this one who ended up actually saving money. I suppose it's possible, but sooner or later the hopes and dreams of youth become the exorbitant costs of a maturing hobby. It's just too chalk-a-block full of slippery slopes. Yeast slanting, grain crushing, SST conicals, pH meters, refrigerator conversions, brewery builds, kegging, on and on and on. Eventually the hobby and the craft are the sole justification.
Back in the 1980's when I started brewing in a 3 gallon glass lined steel pot from K-Mart I told myself I was brewing beer the equal of Pauli Girl and Becks for a lot less. I suppose it was equal to those brands of commercial beer (such as they are), but once I progressed beyond the K-Mart pot, the plastic bucket, and the "liberated" glass carboys, I really had to work to convince myself that I was getting off cheaper.
