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Not all problems in business can be solved by cost cutting. Anchor needs to change with the times and come out with some new products. Sam Adams reportedly makes more money on their twisted tea and truly hard seltzer than they do on beer.

The kit you indicated above doesn’t include any sanitizer, and does include a bunch of additives you just don’t need. For $70 it doesn’t look like a good value from here. When teaching beginners in any subject, I’ve found the best rule is “keep it simple”. You can always add complexity and...

I think $100 seems like too much $, considering the students are providing their own honey. I also think 3 hrs is too long, even if you are doing some tasting of your homebrew mead. I can show anyone how to make a batch of mead in less than 5 minutes. You can get the small fermenter above...

https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/1-4-gallon-siphonless-little-big-mouth-bubbler-plastic?variant=14550305996844&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9vqyBhCKARIsAIIcLMGGlED86TRPZ6YivSNjYhWLedCgXuEk4iQVLSnkpnWdRW6VFVER3I0aAqF_EALw_wcB

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/anchor-porter-clone.4429/

For sheds and such I use metal for the roof. No leaks and it will outlast me.

My local beer store puts “out of date” beer on sale for $1 a bottle. Of course it’s not always something that suits my taste, but when it is I always buy a mixed case for $24. Some time that includes 16 oz imperial IPAs and Stouts, with low prices like that my homebrewing has decreased in...

The new owner of Anchor gave the Chobani employees a minority stake in the company back in 2016. This has apparently led to a different kind of relationship between management and the workers. We’ll have to wait and see if this approach is utilized at Anchor and helps with the financial...

Who knows when your last day or hour will be? Drink the imperial stout you brewed last year and were saving for some special occasion, go to a concert, call off sick from work and go skiing or to the beach, learn some dance steps or how to play your favorite song on an instrument. :mug:

Out at the fire pit last night, someone had the app and the thing went almost directly overhead at 1030 pm. But is a glimpse of a shiny object in the night sky worth $100 billion? Those in charge will likely put up another one after this, but I’m not sure it’s really worth it.

https://www.meadmaderight.com/tosna-calculator https://gotmead.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Raisins-are-NOT-nutrients.pdf

Using staggered nutrient additions greatly improved my mead. Buy some Go ferm, which is added to the yeast when rehydrating, and some Fermaid-O, which is yeast nutrient. Follow the schedule of the TONSA method. Pro mead makers generally make a base mead and add flavor after fermentation is...

Low ABV session NE IPAs. I like my versions better than the few commercial examples available.

Just did a comparison and for grain, Bobby’s price is much higher. Perhaps for lower weight items like hops and yeast, its more competitive.

I just compared More beer to Bobby’s shop for grain and for 40 lbs of 2 row shipped to me it’s $64 from More Beer and $102 from Bobby. Either More beer has special shipping rates or they are losing money selling grain. If I was in the area, I’d buy whole sacks of 2 row from Bobby’s store for $52.