Anybody get any good deals lately?

[bearriver]

Dammit, its almost $20 now...

[HDNB]

so i scored this 200L barrel from a deli manufacturer for 20 bucks. it apparently (obviously) held a shit ton of pickles in it's previous life...not sure i want my next booners casual corn with a side of dill and garlic...

any ideas how to get the smell/flavour out?

[Tal]

Got one of those myself...give it a good wash, fill it with blackcurrants and walllaah!...got to be quick cos they will start fermenting if left too long, the plastic heats up with the volume of fruit in it...I use mine too collect the fruit i'm making wine out of.

[Halfbaked]

Beer stuff 5 into 1 co2 manifold, corona type grain mill, 10 gal mash ton with valve with false bottom, 5 gal mash ton with valve and braided stainless , bottle capper. wine corker, loads of camps and corks, a plate filter and a casister filter and transfer from carboy to carboy, very nice guages and lots of parts for guages, 6 gal glass carboy, 10 beer buckets, hops scale, tower for kegerator, lots of ball lock connecters, johnson temp control, 25 ft wort chiller, brewing book, a drill operated carboy cleaner (no drill with it) several new bottles. $125

[Red Rim]

Halfbaked, very well done sir!

[S-Cackalacky]

Baked, you hit the jackpot!

[Jimbo]

Baked, you hit the jackpot!

+1,

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[MichiganCornhusker]

Buddy of mine has decided to quit his winemaking hobby. I happened to be there the day he wanted to get rid of his 5 gallon oak barrel! Freebie!

[Jimbo]

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2nd time I used this today. Whats with all the lucky bastards

[jedneck]

Apple cider $2 a gallon. Didn't have any money on me at the time.
Going back tommorow to buy a couple gallons.

[cranky]

Apple cider $2 a gallon. Didn't have any money on me at the time.
Going back tommorow to buy a couple gallons.

Good deal Jedneck! I'd buy more than a couple.

[S-Cackalacky]

Talk about missed opportunity - I was in the Goodwill thrift store a few days ago and they had a ginormous igloo cooler for $50. I've seen smaller ones for $89 in retail stores. I should never go to the thrift store when I'm cash poor.

[Tokoroa_Shiner]

Just got a 3L "Moonshine Jug" as the label says on it. Glass with a cork. For $5

[Red Rim]

Apple cider $2 a gallon. Didn't have any money on me at the time.
Going back tommorow to buy a couple gallons.

Good deal Jedneck! I'd buy more than a couple.

Keep an eye on that store bought cider. I bought a bunch at $3 and a bunch more at $2.50 but when I got it home I noticed it has potassium sorbate in it. The sorbate will not allow your yeast to reproduce and ends in some miserable stalled ferments. I am working to overcome this as we speak. The best information I have received yet is that copper will bond with and remove the potassium sorbate, but I have yet to try it. Then another yeast bomb to try and smother it with high doses of active yeast.

Good luck guys!

[jedneck]

Apple cider $2 a gallon. Didn't have any money on me at the time.
Going back tommorow to buy a couple gallons.

Good deal Jedneck! I'd buy more than a couple.

Keep an eye on that store bought cider. I bought a bunch at $3 and a bunch more at $2.50 but when I got it home I noticed it has potassium sorbate in it. The sorbate will not allow your yeast to reproduce and ends in some miserable stalled ferments. I am working to overcome this as we speak. The best information I have received yet is that copper will bond with and remove the potassium sorbate, but I have yet to try it. Then another yeast bomb to try and smother it with high doses of active yeast.

Good luck guys!

Yup has potasuim sorbate in it. Damn it, good thing I looks before buying.

[cranky]

My safeway has tree top on sale again this week for $1.77 a half gallon which is $3.54 a gallon and it ferments very nicely.

[ga flatwoods]

Apple cider $2 a gallon. Didn't have any money on me at the time.
Going back tommorow to buy a couple gallons.

Good deal Jedneck! I'd buy more than a couple.

Keep an eye on that store bought cider. I bought a bunch at $3 and a bunch more at $2.50 but when I got it home I noticed it has potassium sorbate in it. The sorbate will not allow your yeast to reproduce and ends in some miserable stalled ferments. I am working to overcome this as we speak. The best information I have received yet is that copper will bond with and remove the potassium sorbate, but I have yet to try it. Then another yeast bomb to try and smother it with high doses of active yeast.

Good luck guys!

My experience with potassium sorbate made a believer of me that shy of a miracle yeast will not start again once it has killed the original. I ruined a five gallon bstch of pear wine once with a 1/4 teaspoon amount. Like a dummy I checked one five gallon batch that was ready and not the other two. For whatever reason the other two were slower to ferment than the first. The other two ere ruined despite my best efforts to restart it.
if you can make it restart please share what you did.
Good Luck
Ga Flatwoods

[Red Rim]

I have been getting some great advice from MDH on the thread named"messed up whiskey ferment". If I can get it to work out I will write a thread on it, however, it appears MDH is the one who has the information. I am just stumbling blindly through it with him spoon feeding me information.

[goinbroke2]

Wife gave me 19L of some cranberry/something blend as the kids hate it. I'll be making brandy out of it.

[john2674]

got a 300 gallon stainless milk cooler. and a bundle of unopened stainless welding rods for a stick welder. dont know if i will ever need a tank that large but hey ...stainless and free are 2 words you rarely hear in a sentence together.

[ben stiller]

Scored a 2' piece of 1 1/4" copper tube on clearance from grainger for $11.10. Will eventually become the
Center of my condenser for my concentric build.

[Coyote]

A couple of months ago Albertson's closed here.

At the auction I picked up 9 milk racks, that is gallon sized,
5 shelf, designed to support 24 gallons on each shelf, that is
120 gallons @ 9 pounds/ gallon, so 30" x 34" x 70" tall racks designed to
hold 1,080 pounds on lockable casters - really big casters for $ 27.50 each
$ 247.50 for all 9. You can pile a HUGE amount of stuff on these things.
One of them is my new ferment rack that holds 8 - 8 gallon buckets
on the top 2 shelves, and still leaves a ton of storage below.

Yes they are way Cool !!


Coyote

[Red Rim]

That's cool stuff there Coyote. You can't ever have enough storage space for stillin stuff.

[Odin]

Yes! I got a few good deals lately! I found a supplier that can provide me with BiCarb. Only Around 9 dollars for 2.5 kilo's. That's cheap around here. Especially, because normally you can buy only small amounts, like 100 or 250 grams at relatively higher prices. Should be in by tomorow. Need it. Last 200 liters of rye bread ferment is pH 3.67 right now ...

Also, I finally found a source for sugar cane molasses over here. Remember, we make sugar from beets instead of sugar cane. And beet molasses ... aren't suited for rum making. And I really want to try to make some rum ...

So, after a lot of research, I found a supplier that could deliver in 10 liter jerrycans ... at 35 dollars per jerrycan! And that was a cheap one, compared to other suppliers! After more and more research (I have been bussy with this for weeks, now), today, I finally hit the jackpot: a supplier that can deliver in containers holding 33 kilo's. Price? 0.90 dollar per kilo. Now, that's nice! Especially since another distiller already works with them and likes what it gives them. More good news: they can deliver in totes of up to 1,000 liters ... Not that thirsty yet, but good to know.

More good deals? Well, I am working on one more. Contacted a factory that produces hot-rolled, flaked grains. In pretty much any variety you can think. Corn, rye, buck wheat, quinoa. And combinations of all sorts. They normally ask for a minimum order of 200 kilo's, but I am trying to convince them to allow me to order like 30 kilo's instead.

Regards, Odin.

[cranky]

Last night I got 9 big solid copper dinner plates for $5. I can sell them for scrap and make money but that seems like such a waste so right now I'm considering ideas of what to make out of them.

[T-Pee]

Make some dinner plates!

tp (and Captain Obvious)

[cranky]

Thank you captain obvious! I already have some very expensive dinner plates and lot's of not so expensive ones and wouldn't eat dinner off of copper anyway. Nope, good china and sterling silver for me there.

[DoublyDooble]

On Tuesday I picked up some copper pipe from CL. It's DWV grade. 9' of 3" and 11' of 4" (the 4" is a 9' pipe and a 2' pipe with a 4" coupler). Guy sold them to me for $100 total. I can do a lot of making stuff with that amount, or I can make a couple different still designs and sell the rest to fund other parts/fittings...or maybe trade somebody that's found some good deals on kegs and is looking for copper. Who knows...the possibilities are many.

[firewater69]

I got 3.5 gallons of grape juice for free, it's from concentrate but it was free, picked up a few cans of concentrate from the store (6.00) to make up a 5 gallon batch.

[Jimbo]

I got 50% off a Cabernet Sauvignon wine kit at the brewshop for being such a loyal (regular) customer. It makes 6 gallons. Since Cab is in the short list of wines I care to drink Im torn between stillin it into brandy or making too many bottles of wine, which I suspect Ill still 80% of in a few years anyway.