brandonnys
Well-Known Member
This post may be in the wrong section, but it seemed like the best spot for it. I apologize if it needs to be moved.
I live in Oregon, in the PDX-Metro area, and we have a number of LHBS at our disposal.
We had one that never had the correct items in inventory, so if you built a special recipe, good luck getting exactly what you wanted. However, that shop was very welcoming and would have demos and answer your brewing questions, and they were a tad cheaper on most everything.
Another shop is exactly the opposite. The shop owner is way too busy to deal with customers, and his employees are elitists who just want you to get your sh*t and get out. With the exception of some really off-the-wall or expensive items, they have most everything.
I'm airing this all out because I feel like there should be some kind of middle ground.
I know that everyone values different things, so the purpose of this post wasn't just to pontificate (maybe bloviate?). I wanted to get a feel for what you all think makes a good LHBS a great one, and maybe what made a once great LHBS not so great.
Let's try to keep the names of the shops out of the thread, and just talk about the pros/cons of our LHBS's. If you feel like you want to write a review of your LHBS, I'm sure this is the right area of the forum, but not the right thread.
I live in Oregon, in the PDX-Metro area, and we have a number of LHBS at our disposal.
We had one that never had the correct items in inventory, so if you built a special recipe, good luck getting exactly what you wanted. However, that shop was very welcoming and would have demos and answer your brewing questions, and they were a tad cheaper on most everything.
Another shop is exactly the opposite. The shop owner is way too busy to deal with customers, and his employees are elitists who just want you to get your sh*t and get out. With the exception of some really off-the-wall or expensive items, they have most everything.
I'm airing this all out because I feel like there should be some kind of middle ground.
I know that everyone values different things, so the purpose of this post wasn't just to pontificate (maybe bloviate?). I wanted to get a feel for what you all think makes a good LHBS a great one, and maybe what made a once great LHBS not so great.
Let's try to keep the names of the shops out of the thread, and just talk about the pros/cons of our LHBS's. If you feel like you want to write a review of your LHBS, I'm sure this is the right area of the forum, but not the right thread.
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