BrewHQ Brew Box Subscription

[feldmann]

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.

[AtlanticRebel]

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.

[feldmann]

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.

[Two Wheeler]

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.

[feldmann]

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.

[ECH]

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.