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&amp;quot;Ichiban&amp;quot;:1eskd88k wrote: You wouldn't have recently found yourself with a mountain of used Coca Cola Cornelius kegs recently, would you?![/quote:1eskd88k]Now there's an excellent question! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Hi all. Cheers for the encouragement.

Oblivious, cheers for the list. I think we have all those covered. Are there any others you would like to see or does that cover it. We have a supply of Wyeast available. The list is very long. Dont intend to stock all but again just list the ones you would like to see and we can adjust.

Hi Adepus, as to what made us make the plunge. We have started brewing ourselves and been left frustrated by the supply level here in Ireland. My auld fellow used to dabble years ago and I suppose I was always interested. I was very interested to see how things have advanced from them days.

Cheers Sean. I have gleamed much information from the site from reading various treads and any help with information supply would be appreciated.

Hi Ichabin, we dont intend to cater for the wine side of things at the minute due to financial restraints. We hope to start that down the line depending on how we go. There is a high start up cost to something like this. We can get our hands on the following for you.

Lalvin All Purpose (K1V-1116)
Lalvin Burgundy (RC 212)
Lalvin Champange (EC-1118)
Lalvin Nouveau (71B-1122)
Lalvin White Wine (ICV/D-47)

We intend to stock Cornelius kegs.

Thats all I can think of at the moment. We are waiting on VAT number. Order will be going in in about 2 weeks. Website another two. These are the timelines we are working to.If anyone has any requests can they please post here and we can add if not already present. I think we have alot covered.

Are bricks-and-mortar homebrew shops a thing of the past in Ireland?

[size=75:2n6m79qw]Edit: This appears to be the 4000th item on the site. Hooray![/size:2n6m79qw]

I buy 5kg bags of Dry Malt Extract in from Brouwland in Belgium as it works out alot cheaper than messing about with 500g bags of Muntons from the UK and current Irish suppliers, even paying €50 postage. The 5kg bag is close enough to half the price (€28 ) of the equivolent weight of muntons in the small bags (€46 from Hop and Grape), so ordering 25-30kg at a time is kinda worth it.

But, can you source 5kg bags? If so, what kinda price are we talking? <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Hi Bungo

Thanks for they reply, Munich, special B and some of the Belgians I think would be popular with the lads and not forgetting the ladies one the site.

Will you be able to in smaller orders of other specialty malts if required?

Oh and what malt type (if you know) is your pale malt?

Are you going to stock any safale/ Nottingham dry yeast?

Regarding liquid yeast if you look at the some of the English sites they will give you an idea of what sells
Generally the most popular are

Two English types
Irish
Belgian ale/trappist
Californian ale
German wheat

Hi Bungo,
this is great news, a very big 'GOOD LUCK' to you with your venture, and I await the arrival of a new Irish supplier with baited breath.

As someone else has already asked, but I didn't see any answers to, are ye based in Dublin, and will it be a website only, or a real brick-n-mortar store?

Looking forward to doing business!
K
ps - I presume this is going to be a sideline rather than a main source of income?