Oh don't I know it, $500 in this hobby is a drop in the bucket. But, it's $500 we didn't have before!
Thanks to everyone for all the replies so far! I'm excited to start pricing things out. Another competition we entered just granted us another $500, so we're working with $1000 now!
I'm really...
Unfortunately, we didn't win the grand prize, but we did win five hundred bucks. We're a group of seniors in college who had our plans ruined by COVID, so we've thrown ourselves headfirst into homebrewing and are hoping to get into the business of professionally brewing at some point (after...