RobWalker
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well see it this way...my usual spend in the local is probably about £15. that's for DME, yeast, and maybe a gas refill/hops/equipment bits depending on my need. but yeah, £15 ish.
I took advantage of tesco offers and bought 5 kits, 2.5 each between me and my brother. For each kit I bought a beer enhancer, I bought an extra yeast, replaced one of the s30 valves on my kegs, bought some sodium metabisulphate. Spent about £20 all in all, which is arguebly above my usual spend. I make about a beer a month.
Now I've got 3 full kegs, but one was a kit from my local, Sundew at £20, the other was an extract recipe, about £15 from my LHBS. The other keg has a coopers stout in from tesco...
Hold up, we're not done yet. Ready to go on I have a Coopers Ginger Beer, sométhing i never would have bought, and it's going in 2 litre bottles. I don't really care about it. As I see it, this one was no loss to my LHBS.
The third is a John Bull IPA, and to go with this I'm restocking my Goldings (100g @ £3-ish) and I've bought an s-04 yeast at £2.
The two kits I've bought for my brother? Yup, another yeast, some of my Goldings, and he's buying a second keg from our LHBS to accomodate it.
Then we're onto bottling. I'm out of caps and didn't want boring young's ones. Another few quid to my LHBS because of the tesco offers.
Now, beermaking kits might have been sold cheap and considerably unfairly, but my LHBS has still made a decent profit from both of us, not to mention more future custom due to kit expansion.
What I believe your point is is that because tesco will undercut the LHBS, we shouldn't shop there. In the grand scheme of things I would agree - On the whole, I don't shop at tesco for home brew, just through this sort of gold rush. But if they are phasing out their range anyway, youngs is being rebranded to a wilko range, and my LHBS has made a decent profit, what's the issue? I'm an extract brewer going all grain, tesco can't accomodate that whatsoever so they're no risk to any part of the market except beginners in the long term. If anything I think the industry is going to see encouragement from this.
Kits will still be available at the LHBS and people will still buy them. My LHBS have undoubtebly made their "bread and butter" from me this month, and I assume with the other All Grain and Extract brewers too, who don't usually brew kits. You need enhancer, you need equipment, you need to stock your chemicals, hops, yeasts etc back up.
You could argue that nature is undercutting your LHBS because every may you get elderflowers and every october you get blackberries, and people should buy their ingredients from the LHBS. Who do you to for your glucose, yeast, cleaner, pectolase, bits and bobs? your LHBS.
and believe me, I know our local owner and he's not exactly struggling!
I took advantage of tesco offers and bought 5 kits, 2.5 each between me and my brother. For each kit I bought a beer enhancer, I bought an extra yeast, replaced one of the s30 valves on my kegs, bought some sodium metabisulphate. Spent about £20 all in all, which is arguebly above my usual spend. I make about a beer a month.
Now I've got 3 full kegs, but one was a kit from my local, Sundew at £20, the other was an extract recipe, about £15 from my LHBS. The other keg has a coopers stout in from tesco...
Hold up, we're not done yet. Ready to go on I have a Coopers Ginger Beer, sométhing i never would have bought, and it's going in 2 litre bottles. I don't really care about it. As I see it, this one was no loss to my LHBS.
The third is a John Bull IPA, and to go with this I'm restocking my Goldings (100g @ £3-ish) and I've bought an s-04 yeast at £2.
The two kits I've bought for my brother? Yup, another yeast, some of my Goldings, and he's buying a second keg from our LHBS to accomodate it.
Then we're onto bottling. I'm out of caps and didn't want boring young's ones. Another few quid to my LHBS because of the tesco offers.
Now, beermaking kits might have been sold cheap and considerably unfairly, but my LHBS has still made a decent profit from both of us, not to mention more future custom due to kit expansion.
What I believe your point is is that because tesco will undercut the LHBS, we shouldn't shop there. In the grand scheme of things I would agree - On the whole, I don't shop at tesco for home brew, just through this sort of gold rush. But if they are phasing out their range anyway, youngs is being rebranded to a wilko range, and my LHBS has made a decent profit, what's the issue? I'm an extract brewer going all grain, tesco can't accomodate that whatsoever so they're no risk to any part of the market except beginners in the long term. If anything I think the industry is going to see encouragement from this.
Kits will still be available at the LHBS and people will still buy them. My LHBS have undoubtebly made their "bread and butter" from me this month, and I assume with the other All Grain and Extract brewers too, who don't usually brew kits. You need enhancer, you need equipment, you need to stock your chemicals, hops, yeasts etc back up.
You could argue that nature is undercutting your LHBS because every may you get elderflowers and every october you get blackberries, and people should buy their ingredients from the LHBS. Who do you to for your glucose, yeast, cleaner, pectolase, bits and bobs? your LHBS.
and believe me, I know our local owner and he's not exactly struggling!
