Home Distiller

Did some window shopping at Costco today.
White sugar, $20.89/50# or $11/25#
Blue agave nectar, $9.49/qt (+/-), no additives, only nectar

Others, but didn't price check
Brown sugar
Coconut sugar (looks like brown sugar)


Next time I'll spend time in the cereals & grains.

Red Star bakers yeast $4/2# brick(?)
Check house wares for SS pots.

Dont know where you are, but $21 for a 50#'r is pretty damn good.

That Costco is in Fremont, Ca. And people don't look twice at large quantities of stuff going out the door.

I just bought Costco sugar at $18.22 for 50 lbs. No one said a thing when I bought 5.

Find someone who works in the oilfield, you can get it free all day long.

wv_hillbilly wrote:Find someone who works in the oilfield, you can get it free all day long.

Yep. I scored a whole pallet of 50lb bags once.

wv_hillbilly wrote:Find someone who works in the oilfield, you can get it free all day long.

I'll bite. What do you use it for in the oilfield? I know those derricks are tall, but are they really flutes?

Theo wrote:

wv_hillbilly wrote:Find someone who works in the oilfield, you can get it free all day long.

I'll bite. What do you use it for in the oilfield? I know those derricks are tall, but are they really flutes?

Dump it in places you don't want the cement to set up. It hinders it somehow.

It retards the setting of cement. It's better to buy another cement job than it is to try and remove casing that is stuck in place.

Getting it for free through? The company doing the cement work had to pay for it, doubt folks are willing to lose their job for giving sugar to their friends... Maybe though.

Red Skip

Operator buys it, they can do whatever they want with it after that with what's not used.

Where I am a 25# bag at Costco is $20. Twice the price here.

in my Amish community, $20 for 50 lbs. of walrus brand sugar, and the 2 pound cakes of bakers yeast for $2.50-$3.00. And the reclaimed freight store sometimes has sugar that has gone hard as heck in the bags for $1 a five pounder.
also I find some good deals on boxed cereals at the reclaimed store.

The pallet I got was left over and was going to be disposed of. They said if I wanted it to load it up so I did.

I hope you disposed of it WISELY.

I probably used a couple of hundred lbs on UJSSM . After that I just taught a few ppl how to distill their own and built a few stills and gave them the rest of the sugar.

Until now I never thought I needed an explanation for the checkout girl at the register when buying a 25lb bag of sugar. "None of your f'ing business was my first thought but not my reply.
One day I was reading somewhere that bee keepers / farmers use massive amounts of sugar to feed their bees. The man writing the story said that his bees drank up a five gallon bucket of sugar water in one day.
I don't know how many bee hives the man had but it turned on a light bulb in my head.

That sounds like the perfect answer to the curious onlooker. Hell, I could even find an old bee box off of craigslist for show.
This idea may have been posted already but I have not run across it so far.

It sounded reasonable so I decide to share.

buzz buzz buzz.

I have to pay $17 for 25# of sugar locally. Sucks. And Fleischman's yeast is about $4.85 for a 4 ounce jar. But I saw Amazon has some for $17 for 4 lbs. Might hafta order that, if I can find someone who can use half of it.

Local Food Club just got in a stock of 25# and 50# bags of sugar, $12 for 25# and $19.99 for 50#

25lb bag at wal mart for 13.25

I use to go to walmart all the time and would see 5-10 of the 25# sacks and now for the last few months atleast 6 months (sense the show on tv) I havent ever seen but 1 bag at walmart the rest of the time its empty and all the 10# bag are low in stock but plenty of 5#s

i get 2 5's every time i go to a grocery store

Costco is my go to store for those supplies at or near Christmas they stock vanilla beans and they are 10 times cheaper than the regular store so I stock up for the year.

Bushman wrote:Costco is my go to store for those supplies at or near Christmas they stock vanilla beans and they are 10 times cheaper than the regular store so I stock up for the year.

How do you store them to keep them fresh? Just in a airtight container? Or re fridge +Airtight

4lb@1.99 at Aldi's in Tornado Alley

5kg/11lb of cane or beet sugar (pricewise it doesn't make a difference) £4.00/$6.10 from Tesco

nondrinker wrote:Until now I never thought I needed an explanation for the checkout girl at the register when buying a 25lb bag of sugar. "None of your f'ing business was my first thought but not my reply.
One day I was reading somewhere that bee keepers / farmers use massive amounts of sugar to feed their bees. The man writing the story said that his bees drank up a five gallon bucket of sugar water in one day.
I don't know how many bee hives the man had but it turned on a light bulb in my head.

That sounds like the perfect answer to the curious onlooker. Hell, I could even find an old bee box off of craigslist for show.
This idea may have been posted already but I have not run across it so far.

It sounded reasonable so I decide to share.

buzz buzz buzz.

This is my reason, & I actually know of an old folk who has a bee farm.

Until now I never thought I needed an explanation for the checkout girl at the register when buying a 25lb bag of sugar. "None of your f'ing business was my first thought but not my reply.

I just tell them that we have 300lb hummingbirds...and give her a wink and a smile.