New Brunswick Craft Brewers Association
Uncategorized Boards => General => Topic started by: feldmann on August 20, 2018, 11:55:04 AM
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I was browsing the brewnosers forum and I stumbled across this starting up today: https://brewhq.ca/products/brew-hq-brew-box
Looks like they deliver you a 5Gal recipe every 3 months for $45/year and shipping is free. Seems pretty good for $11/recipe.
I've never even heard of this of this shop before, but even for regular items the shipping rates seem great.
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BrewHQ is an offshoot of Noble Grape, they have decided to separate their Wine and Beer product lines. I am not really sure if there will be much of a change at store-level.
Just to clarify, it is 44.95$ per box/quarter, 179.80$ per year.
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BrewHQ is an offshoot of Noble Grape, they have decided to separate their Wine and Beer product lines. I am not really sure if there will be much of a change at store-level.
Ah, okay, I had no idea. This looks to me like an effort to compete more in the online market with OBK and Everwood.
Just to clarify, it is 44.95$ per box/quarter, 179.80$ per year.
Haha, that makes a lot more sense. $44.95 for the entire year just seemed insane.
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BrewHQ is an offshoot of Noble Grape, they have decided to separate their Wine and Beer product lines. I am not really sure if there will be much of a change at store-level.
Noble Grape has done a pretty good job over the years of adapting to compete. The stock they carry now in store, and what's available online has increased massively since I started going there 5 years ago. My gripe with them was always that the staff was really inconsistent. Some of them were great, some of them were not. I haven't been into the store in quite a while though, so likely I'm not a great judge of the current state.
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BrewHQ is an offshoot of Noble Grape, they have decided to separate their Wine and Beer product lines. I am not really sure if there will be much of a change at store-level.
Noble Grape has done a pretty good job over the years of adapting to compete. The stock they carry now in store, and what's available online has increased massively since I started going there 5 years ago. My gripe with them was always that the staff was really inconsistent. Some of them were great, some of them were not. I haven't been into the store in quite a while though, so likely I'm not a great judge of the current state.
I will agree with you that they have evolved a lot, however, I also feel that the change has been very slow. I still feel like they're barely up to the standard of most of the other beer brewing shops.
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I use Noble for grains and the odd dry yeast, mostly because they are the only game in town.
My only issue is that I am a serve yourself kind of guy, so when I walk in and just start measuring out grain, I often get the "what do you think you are doing" look.
I mean, as far as I know, it is self serve, if the workers want to measure it out for me, have at it, but I sometimes will go in with what I need for a recipe, and call an audible while there. Recipe calls for Crystal 30, and they have 20 and 40, or maybe instead of regular pale malt, I will go for whatever is being offered from Horton Ridge. Not sure if it makes much of a difference in the long run, but at least using Horton's stuff, it is like using local ingredients.