Heya, dropping my products price down actually worked, who woulda thought. I’m going to take a break during March 10th-30th to brew up more of the raws, deal with any reships that arise and catch up with support.

The site will not be accepting (new) orders during that time but should still be up. We’ll still be processing reships during that time, it’s just new orders that will be down.

Thank you for helping me make my personal exit (again, OGL will continue) a clean one, I promise to do right by everyone.

Canadian/international refunds: On a separate note, we’ve sent out a lot (I think all) of the emails for this and are starting to send out refunds to those affected (orders that didn’t show up).

Shipping related questions, including trackings that didn’t go out are being handled manually. Thanks for the patience with those, hoping the break lets us clear out everything.

Thanks again y’all, really appreciate it.

Hello! Today I wanted to post a blog more on the personal side. Note that I am really only speaking for myself here, as the team itself (spoiler) has no plans to stop. If you’re worried, OGL will likely continue after i’m gone.

You may have noticed a pretty big sale on Enanthate, Valerate, and Undecylate. I thought originally just to say something regarding clearing out old stock but I suppose there’s a larger truth to it.

I’ve been brewing, keeping a low IRL social profile and neglecting my health and aspirations for a long time doing this job. It’s kinda crazy how keeping everything up eventually becomes all consuming to ones entire life. This job really takes about everything out of you to keep going and then some. People who have unfortunately been there for the bumps, and a lot more people who have been there for the best times.

When I originally started homebrew was in a very bad state. There weren’t a ton of options and the ones who existed had some real flaws. That’s where I saw an opportunity to fill a need that so many of you over the years have had. I’m genuinely glad to see that that has changed in such a major way. People will fearmonger but this is by far the most healthy the availability of homebrew has ever been. Some other brewers may have not been the biggest fans of myself, they’ve made that clear, but there are also a *ton* of great options out there now.

Personally the past few years really have been the most eventful, best, worst, and most lifechanging i’ve had, and hey i’m an old fart.

Truly though there is a point where you start to ask was it enough? Have I hit the goals and the needs of others enough?

I think I have at this point.

The headline news here is that I have a certain amount of raws left. It’s still quite a bit but I’ve been dwelling for a while on whether or not to buy more. The more time has gone by the more i’m set on not buying more.

I need to brew up, sell and ship roughly a years supply if demand stays the same as it has been in three months. That goes for US domestic and UK vials (dispatched from the USA) only. The hard part here isn’t going to be shipping, just brewing itself. I’ll be trying to do that as religiously as possible.

If you’re interested in raws themselves, I may offer up what I have at some point if it isn’t going quick enough, but hey for now grab what you can at the least expensive prices in NA.

This kid’s bunnyhopping all the way through ivy, out middle, and through our connector, through- FROM IVY OUT MIDDLE THROUGH OUR CONNECTOR like a speed demon

admin he’s doing it sideways

“he’s not scripting”

You were one of the first to push for third party testing, one that handled this oftentimes rough type of operation well. You spoke publicly with restraint, and with the utmost professionalism. You pushed boundaries with your formularies, and were not afraid to change with the meta.

I saw the quality, I saw the care put into what you made, and how you stayed up to date with the needs of the masses. Ego is oftentimes useful in brewing, it makes you afraid to make mistakes. We should be terrified of hurting people accidentally. It should hurt you when or if it happens. Brewers need to have pride in what we make, to be right and to be certain.

Yet despite an obvious amount of care put into what you did, you managed to keep your ego in the lab. You’re better than me at doing that, its a weakness of mine.

Exiting is hard to do, it’s hard to do without feeling like you’re abandoning others. It’s hard to imagine not doing something that means so much to you and others. It’s something that needs to be done when you have to put your own mask on.

Even if a name is muttered less, it doesn’t change the good that one did. It doesn’t change a legacy. It doesn’t undo the saving of lives and the inspiration that you’ve given to us.

Farewell.

-OGL