The on line store

[davids47]

Is there any reason that Coopers store cant sell grains and yeasts like a home brew shop,

i have bought a couple of items off line from them ,but when i have to go and get yeast and malts grains ect ,

I don't buy on line from coopers store might as well give it to shop But i would be handy seeing my closest hoomebrew shop is over an hour away

there is one closer with hellish over inflated prices but its just a health shop selling a few cans of kits

just my 2 cents worth

[Beerlust]

I suppose it boils down to the simple fact that Coopers is a large volume commercial brewery that primarily produces a finished product, that being salable bottled & kegged beer. The malt extracts & kits it produces, are again manufactured on a large production scale.

 

Moving into the sale of raw brewing materials such as grains & hops would almost be detrimental to the production, promotion & sale of their extracts & kit tins. Also small volume sales of grain & hops etc. to individual home brewers logistically just wouldn't be worth the effort for the returns (I think).

 

That's just my take on it.

 

Cheers,

 

Anthony.

[ben 10]

I do believe it is Coopers way of supporting the LHBS who would make them a fair slice of their DIY Beer sales.

[Guzz]

Those reasons seem like good valid reasons.

 

However, a ROTM (Recipe Of the Month) would be nice.

 

Please

 

 

 

 

[Hairy]

It could also be that the volume of sales won't be there to make it profitable carrying a variety of extra lines of products.

 

I am guessing that the majority of people using Coopers products would be Kit & Kilo type brewers.