Congrats to you if you picked up on the Seinfeld quote. We will be brewing 2 Saisons this week. Both were to be brewed on Sunday. That is no longer happening due to the George Costanza in me. I ordered ingredients last Saturday for my recipe. The only 2 places we ever order from are Austin Homebrew and Beer & Wine. I figured, hey, I got a week. Lemme see which one is cheapest. So I made shopping carts on both sites, with indentical ingredients. Congratulations Austin Homebrew, you win. That’s before shipping, Austin Homebrew also kicked ass in that category, being 10 dollars cheaper in that category. So I saved myself 15 bucks. This was Saturday afternoon. Clubby, always the procrastinator, decides to order Wednesday evening. Good going jackass, we’ll never get your ingredients on time. He doesn’t care about saving some green, so he orders from Beer & Wine. Let’s just say that as of writing right now, his yeast starter is going. His shipment arrived today. Mine is apparently being bicycled from Texas, then dropped off by carrier pigeons, as it won’t be here until Monday. So let this be a lesson to you all: Cheaper isn’t always the best way to go.
(DISCLAIMER: I am in no way saying Austin Homebrew is a bad company. Many factors are in play here. One being that they are in Texas, us in New York. Beer & Wine is in Massachusetts. The only thing that really bugged me is that mine didn’t get shipped until Wednesday. I know Monday was a holiday, and they probably don’t work Sundays to get the orders ready, but it seemed like it took too long. I’ll still order from them, just not if I need the items in 1 week or less.)
