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A Leading Purveyor of Excellent Beer & Wine Making Supplies since 1986 -- Site Sponsor, First Round 1999, 2000 & 2006 AHA National Homebrew Competition -- 2008 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 phone: 215-569-9469 fax: 215-569-4633 e-mail: homsweet@voicenet.com |
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NEWS! AHA Nationals First Round Homebrew Competition: We are host once again to the AHA (American Homebrewers Association) Nationals First Round Homebrew Competition. Entries are due April 11th. Judging will take place April 25-27th. Registration is online only this year. Check www.beertown.org for more info. CLOSED TUEDAY MAY 6th! We will be in Gettysburg to receive the Governor's Inspiration Award and be inducted into the Keystone Society of Tourism. We will reopen around noon on Wednesday, May 7th. Hops Update: We continue to get in different varieties, sporadically, and sometimes with little notice. Keep checkin' in! British hops are in short supply but the rest of the world is cropping up occasionally. We have an interesting variety of organic leaf hop available. Home Sweet Homebrew in the News: George and Nancy were featured in a profile on the website for "StartUpNation". Here's the link to the article entitled Market Locally, Grow Nationally: Nancy Rigberg and George Hummel. Check it out! |
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Our Home Sweet Homebrew Store
Want to Create Your Very Own Homebrew or Wine? We'll help you! |
Come visit us!
You'll enjoy roaming through our large selection of malts, yeasts, grains, hops, specialty sugars, ....
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Special delivery arrangements can be made! | |
| SPRING HOURS | |
| Sunday | Noon - 4 pm |
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 11 am - 6 pm |
| Wednesday | 11 am - 7 pm |
| With Wednesday Evening Tastings.
(Free Meter Parking after 5!) HOPS Meetings on the third Wednesdays | |
| Thursday | 11 am - 6 pm |
| Friday | 11 am - 6 pm |
| Saturday | 11 am - 5 pm |
| Other Hours by Appointment. (We've got keys!) | |
| George and Nancy were recently featured in a profile on the website for "StartUpNation". Here's the link to the article entitled Market Locally, Grow Nationally: Nancy Rigberg and George Hummel. Check it out! |
| What are your
favorite beers? Victory? Yards? Flying Fish? Dogfish Head?
George Hummel & Nancy Rigberg have been award-winning writers, speakers and homebrewers since 1986 -- before any of those breweries were even open! Their list of writing credits include Beer Philadelphia, Ale Street News, BarleyCorn, Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, New Brewer and more. They host numerous beer tastings and seminars, including the annual Split Rock Lodge beer festival. They've been guests on Beer Philadelphia Radio, and featured on the cover of "Mother Earth Magazine". They make their home in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia, on the grounds of a defunct brewery that at its height in 1913, turned out nearly 200,000 barrels of lager. At the turn of the 20th Century, there were neary 100 active breweries in Philadelphia. |
George Hummel with
Nancy Rigberg's Tie Dye Creations. See Firefly Dyes. |
Welcome to the world of brewing!
To make your first five gallons of beer, you will need one of our
(a) Equipment Kits and
one of our (b) preassembled Ingredient Packages.
(a) Beginner's Equipment Kit comes with recipe and instructions, and includes:
7 Gallon Fermenter, with Lid
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7 Gallon Bottling Bucket
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Equipment Kit: $59.95 (shipping weight 17 lbs.) | ||
GLASS CARBOY UPGRADE
(ADD $10.00 to the Equipment Kit above and $5.00 additional packing charge.)
5 Gallon Glass Carboy (replaces one of the buckets), with gum stopper and blow-off hose.
Ask about our Affordable All-Glass Fermentation option.
Or Are you ready for the ULTIMATE KIT?
Just ask!
(b) Beginner's Ingredient Packages includes all the ingredients that you will need to produce 5 gallons of an all malt, world class beer.
To get you started, we've prepared several different ingredient packages.
You get malt, brewing yeast, priming sugar and hops -- all pre-measured and easy to use.
WE WILL WORK WITH YOU TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN RECIPES FOR SUBSEQUENT BATCHES.
(Be prepared to articulate the type of beer you may be looking for.)
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Beginner's PubKit Ingredients $38.00 |
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One of our Equipment Kits coupled with an Ingredient Package
will provide all you will need, except for some common household items (pot, spoon, bleach) and about two
cases of non-twistoff empty beer bottles. How many hobbies can you start for well under a hundred bucks?!
If you're still unsure about brewing beer, send us $5.00 and we'll send you a copy of the
Brewing Handbook along with our Award Winning Beer Recipe for you to review, postpaid.
Of course, if at any time you have any questions about your kit, brewing in general,
or if you wish to order more supplies, just call us at 215-569-9469.
We also will gladly respond to e-mail
questions and orders at homsweet@voicenet.com.
"THIRST OF PHILADELPHIATM
NAMED IN HONOR OF SOME OF PHILLY'S BEST BEER BARS!
Different Recipes Fermenting throughout the Year!
"Thirst of Philadelphia" recipes make great gifts or souveniers of Philly!
LONDON GRILL PORTER |
A full bodied, robust porter, in the distinguished style of the London Grill. |
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KHYBER PASS IPA |
A bracing British IPA, as rugged as the Khyber. |
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COPA, TOO! BELGIAN WHITE (wit) ALE |
Complex, intriguing. Our version of a 'Session Beer' -- a classic Belgian White Beer. Just like the COPA -- the beer you keep coming back to. |
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BARDS IRISH STOUT |
Mother's Milk, translated across the pond. |
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JACK'S FIREHOUSE RED |
As Jack's motto says, "lay on the floor and do everything the nice fireman tells you..."; a coppery red ale, hopped in the American style. |
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SILK CITY WHEAT |
Like Silk City itself, a Bavarian -style wheat beer that goes with the flow. |
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THE ABBAYE BELGIAN ABBEY STYLE |
We had to brew a strong, malty abbey dubbel style beer in honor of this feisty Northern Liberties tavern. Bottle with oxygen barrier caps, as aging for at least a year is possible. A liquid yeast is recommended. |
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SUGAR MOM'S OLD ALE |
Funky, interesting, intoxicating, ... wait, that's sugar mom's bartenders. No, really, a soothing old ale that sneaks in a punch. |
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BRIDGID’S BELGIAN PALE ALE |
Comforting, yet exotic, this is a beer you can visit every day, like Bridgid's. A belgian pale ale that's so drinkable, yet complex. |
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MONK'S TRIPEL |
An enticing Belgian tripel, pale and deceptively powerful. This beer will captivate you, just as the 'Brussels Spouts' do at Monk's. |
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NODDING HEAD SCOTCH ALE |
Powerfully smoky and malty, this rendition will have you nodding your head in delight! |
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NEW!!! GEORGE'S FAULT! |
The homebrew version of Nodding Head's Great American Beer Festival Gold-Medal winning Belgian grand cru style beer! |
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