Very sad to hear I use them for my yeast really nice even let me collect for no postage charge and great chats and advice true gem
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They open to selling the business.
I'd be very surprised if this excellent business was not taken over.
Fingers crossed. I'd be very tempted!
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That’s what they say. If anyone fancies taking over Crossmyloof Brew, processing 2 tonnes of hops, countless yeast packs, and hundreds of grain recipe kits for over 11,000 orders annually, let us know!
I can't see it being worth anything.
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How do you know it is excellent?
My guess is they are selling because it is a lot of hard graft for a minimal return. Packing, repacking, packing and posting low margin items?
Maybe a cottage industry that got out of hand, but couldn't grow.
It is a shame but I don't think it's the sort of thing you could organise as a collective/community operation.
I too will really miss them.
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They recently moved from Crossmyloof to another part of Glasgow because I assume their volume of orders increased. I agree the workload vs margins are going to unsustainable long term.
Hi Mashbag, they are an excellent business from a customer pov, and that seems to be the unanimous view of this thread.
I certainly have no insight into their books, but as a customer I've always felt they could charge us brewers a little more.
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Plenty of people on this thread seem to have an insight into their books, given the messages about profit margins, profitability etc etc
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Absolutely. There service is always excellent.
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No only our Aussie friend but I think he’s probably right l
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They technically not selling. Owner is retiring but open to selling. 11000 plus order isn't too bad. Baring in mind that their main business is commercial.
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11000 plus what?
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The partner who was a commercial brewer dropped out some time ago. It is solely hops grain and yeast sales.
He is right.
I know how long it takes to weigh out and vacuum pack 5kg of hops into 100-gram packs.Yeast wouldn't be a problem, I suspect Bevie would have been packaging that at their Liverpool branch.
Hops, 2 tonnes of the biggest variety of hops I have seen anywhere, I don't know how they managed to carry such a varied amount of hops and package it into different quantities. Even with a GM of 50% it would be hard to make a living between 3 of them.
Not many profitable businesses start from the heart, it has and does happen but rarely, good luck to them in their retirement I have had excellent service and I hope they got orders from others in Australia, I know I upset hop retailers here by forecasting my purchases from CML on the Aussie forum.
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I meant sales direct to small commercial breweries.The partner who was a commercial brewer dropped out some time ago. It is solely hops grain and yeast sales.
He is right.
Yeast wouldn't be a problem, I suspect Bevie would have been packaging that at their Liverpool branch.
Hops, 2 tonnes of the biggest variety of hops I have seen anywhere, I don't know how they managed to carry such a varied amount of hops and package it into different quantities. Even with a GM of 50% it would be hard to make a living between 3 of them.
Not many profitable businesses start from the heart, it has and does happen but rarely, good luck to them in their retirement I have had excellent service and I hope they got orders from others in Australia, I know I upset hop retailers here by forecasting my purchases from CML on the Aussie forum.
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That's disappointing. I literally just bought from them for the first time last week. I got some of their Hell and Kolsch yeast to experiment with. Can you freeze packs of dried yeast to keep them long term? I might order a load of them if you can.
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11000 what?
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11000 orders a year
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There isn't a living wage in the profits on those numbers.
