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...and brewed by Coors.

Happy ending to this. Thanks to Staylow I brewed yesterday evening and now have a winter warmer brewing.

North Columbia

Yep... the Conley HyVee is the one I was referring to. I will actually be in Jeff City in a couple hours or so. I can PM you my contact details/phone if that works? I haven't made it to Craft Beer Cellar yet but am pretty regular at iTap.

Checking in from Boone County, MO.

With the exception of their Hemp Rye, which is at least okay, I've started avoiding anything by O'Fallon. There are too many better beers in the area and theirs always seem to underwhelm in comparison. I haven't been very impressed with any of the Excel Brewing Co. beers I have tried either...

I wouldn't actually seek it out, but I did go through a case of Kraftig during the Final Four last year... :o

Columbia, Missouri. Our newest Hy-Vee has a larger-even-than-usual-for-Hy-Vee craft beer section and even got into homebrewing supplies for a while, selling grains, malts, hops, and yeast. However, it was more of a trial run as they're scaling back now. Going to try a Better Bottle 6 gallon...

Thanks for all the replies. I did also find that the force of the explosion/implosion/whatever happened popped the hose right off my auto-siphon. Weird.

I'll see what the brew store has tomorrow. I went with glass at first because of reading about sanitation issues, off flavors, etc. with plastic. But for a primary fermenter (I always rack to secondary) I'm open to it. Just glad there were no injuries. My wife and daughter were both in the next...

It was a no-name glass carboy from Hy Vee, a Midwestern grocery chain that sold homebrew equipment until very recently. And yes, I did find some very thin shards... I thought about the temperature as a possible issue, but if there was a difference in temperature it wasn't more than 5-10...

Well, I learned my lesson... Preparing for a batch of beer today (somewhere in the #12-15 overall batch-- I've lost count) I had a carboy explode while sanitizing. I can't figure out HOW this happened unless it was just a fluke accident, but I'm definitely not going to try this method...