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Nice looking taps this one is about $10 cheaper than i seen on other sites.Anyone seen cheap tail piece set ups that you can push the hose directly on to?or is it better to buy em here and save on postage.


Perlick 525 SS Faucet (Per525) us$23.99


http://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/scri...p?idProduct=144


The only problem is they use UPS not USPS and the postage for only two tap heads is.

UPS Worldwide Expedited SM $90.13

UPS Express Saver SM $93.10

UPS Worldwide Express SM $96.55
 
Interested to know where from and price please

Cheers
Bruce

I got them from kegworks.com, and got the taps for $30.90 and Shanks for $21.90. I got some other gear with it aswell. Not the cheapest you can get, now that i have seen the farmhouse link. You can also get them on ebay with cheaper postage, but i needed some other gear that i couldn't be ****** getting seperate parcels from all over the show. But Kegworks seem very professional, With tracking emails sent at every stage and parcel ID to check where it is. So we will see how things pan out.
 
Even with larger quantities, say a pound of each, if you are in contact with other local brewers in your area, or in a club or go to brewdays you can swap some of your basic hops for the specialist ones, doing that right now to get some Styrians - and as you got yours cheap you can be a bit generous with your side of the swap.
 
3x perlick 525ss
1x 3.5 inch shank
4 way gas line manifold
1x plastic handle
7x half pound hop pellets

$284US delivered.

:) been umming and arrhing about buying these, finally man'ed up and purhased today.

P.S, oz LHBS's I still love you, I was drunk and one thing lead to another and the US HBS was wearing a short dress. It wont happen again.
 
Anybody looked into getting some yeast? Chasing some wyeast or whitelabs. Any tips or hints with which website is best to deal with would be great. Or if it is even worth it (most worried about the temperature)
Cheers
 
Anybody looked into getting some yeast? Chasing some wyeast or whitelabs. Any tips or hints with which website is best to deal with would be great. Or if it is even worth it (most worried about the temperature)
Cheers

Wyeast & White Labs will not sell directly. Morebeer ship international & have White Labs vials at $6.25 each which is less than half of what it costs here. I'd be a bit concerned about temperature though I'm pretty certain they would use ice packs being in California. So depending on shipping costs, which shouldn't be too much given it's weight, I'd say it's worth it to try.
 
If you are part of a club you may be able to organise something with White Labs. Our club here in Canberra recently made a bulk purchase of 100 vials for $7.50 each landed.

Wyeast & White Labs will not sell directly. Morebeer ship international & have White Labs vials at $6.25 each which is less than half of what it costs here. I'd be a bit concerned about temperature though I'm pretty certain they would use ice packs being in California. So depending on shipping costs, which shouldn't be too much given it's weight, I'd say it's worth it to try.
 
If you are part of a club you may be able to organise something with White Labs. Our club here in Canberra recently made a bulk purchase of 100 vials for $7.50 each landed.

Of course it was done through a legitimate business,registered and ABN'd with an active account with Whitelabs and pretty much as a legs up for Canberra Brewers. To that degree it was pretty much part of the tour.
K
 
Run might not be continuing - I got my hopsdirect order in at about 98.5 but seems to be hovering about 97 now

http://www.xe.com/currency/aud-australian-dollar


http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/dol...1020-16stl.html

smh article said:
The Aussie dollar marked those records amid expectations the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, was about to embark on a stimulus program that would, in effect, undermine the value of the US dollar.

That propelled the Aussie to never-before-seen highs.

But overnight, it took a turn for the worse and it hit a low of 96.63 US cents, falling almost 3 per cent from the 99.57-US-cents high of the past 24 hours, reached shortly before midday yesterday.

Compared to last week's record, the dollar is down 3.4 per cent.

The rise of the US dollar was caused largely by expectations China's growth would slow after officials there lifted a key interest rate.
 
CBs Wyeast prices usually go up and down according to the dollar, I think at one stage it was up around $13 IIRC. At current prices if I get a few brews out of a smack pack I find it's very reasonable compared to dry yeasts like US-05 that I don't regularly reuse. Hops are another thing of course because they are consumed and, apart from some tweaks like occasionally reusing hopback hops for bittering, then that's it. :icon_cheers:
 
For those splurging, I'll just leave this here:

http://www.shipito.com/


:icon_offtopic: I was working in California over their last winter. had to ship the snowboard bags back and fedex was too expensive, so we used these guys. Looks like the dodgies little place in the outskirts of LA haha we barely found it because it has like 4 other businesses there that all have random asian names.
The guys there were semi helpful, i think they were just the weekend guys, who were also selling push bikes out of the garage.
We didnt have proper locks on the bags when we dropped it off and used some zip ties. I think they stole some jumpers and pants out of the bag after we left (could have been them or anyone else along the way though <_< ). The rest turned up all safe and sound.
After saying this though i would probably still use them again, they were just so much cheaper than any other shipping, just make sure it was packaged properly when it was sent there.
 
an update on hopsdirect amarillo pallets
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HELLO CLAYTON,
I AM HOPING FOR THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER. SORRY I CAN NOT GIVE
YOU A MORE DEFINATE ANSWER.

THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE FINISH PELLETING WE WILL POST THEM ON THE
WEBSITE.

Carla
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Where is everyone getting their perlicks from? the price below looks like one of the best at the moment.

Think I might pick up 2/3 and get them sent out with shipito - my first package from them arrived via fedex yesterday - three day delivery of a massive box for $80.



Nice looking taps this one is about $10 cheaper than i seen on other sites.Anyone seen cheap tail piece set ups that you can push the hose directly on to?or is it better to buy em here and save on postage.


Perlick 525 SS Faucet (Per525) us$23.99


http://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/scri...p?idProduct=144
 
I did find cheaper places before I ordered my four 575 Perlick Creamers & 4" ss shanks from HERE but the cheaper prices were easily offset by the cheaper combined shipping rate.
Opted not to get shanks with the tail pieces because I could save space in the kegerator by getting the appropiate JG shank & elbow fittings from CraftBrewer.
I agree that the 525's from Farmhouse Brewing Supply are pretty cheap but not too much info on shipping costs ATM.

TP
 
My 3 perlick creamers have turned up today. 3 taps, 4" shanks and nipples delivered for a total of $158.00 au. Pity I dont get to see/play with them til the weekend though.


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Where is everyone getting their perlicks from? the price below looks like one of the best at the moment.

Think I might pick up 2/3 and get them sent out with shipito - my first package from them arrived via fedex yesterday - three day delivery of a massive box for $80.


I got 4 525 perlicks and shanks from this guy on ebay a little while back came in cheapest after shipping etc brauman59 good service, replied to emails swiftly and most importantly the taps are excellent.
 
Interested in knowing where you finally chose to get them from Brad?
brauman59 on ebay. I kind of *********** a bit I didnt add the postage which was about 36 bucks on top from the US. I ordered them on the 17th and they arrived this morning, pretty good turn around.
 
Ordered some hops from CHI Company and they were delivered today (total turn around from order to delivery was 13 days). Customs had opened the box and probed one 2oz package.
 

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