A Leading Purveyor of Excellent Beer & Wine Making Supplies since 1986 -- Site Sponsor, First Round 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, & 2008 AHA National Homebrew Competition -- 2008 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 phone: 215-569-9469   fax: 215-569-4633 e-mail: info@homesweethomebrew.com

WHAT'S HOPPENING! GIFT CERTIFICATES - The Perfect Present for your wine or beer loving friends and family! Our gift certificates will take the wonder out of what to give! You can order a gift certificate in popular amounts below, or call us, or email us to handle any other dollar amount. We will put your gift recipient's name on the certificate. You can provide a mailing address other than your own by clicking on "Mail to this Person, not me" link at checkout. NOTE that later in the checkout process, it will say the certificate will be mailed to you, but don't worry - we'll send it to the address you put in the "Mail to this Person, not me" section. Purchase Gift Certificates to Home Sweet Homebrew! Certificate Amount: Who is Certificate FOR: Who is Certificate FROM: Twenty-Five Dollars $25.00 Thirty Dollars $30.00 Forty Dollars $40.00 Fifty Dollars $50.00 Sixty Dollars $60.00 Seventy-five Dollars $75.00 Time to brew those Octoberfest beers! Hard to believe Labor Day weekend is upon us already. It’s the unofficial end of this unbelievably hot summer, and the unofficial beginning of the Fall Brewing Season. Time to brew those Octoberfest beers (even if it’s a little late for a lager!), and pumpkin ales! Cooler weather will eventually come so it’s also time to be thinking about your winter beers, both for holiday giving and cold weather sipping. Congratulations to Kyle Kernozek & Michele Dickey for being chosen by Sam Calagione at the Extreme Homebrew Challenge to brew with Dogfish Head for the GABF Pro/Am and to Wardell Massey for being the People's Choice Winner. Thanks to everyone who participated and attended. New Seasonal Wyeasts: Rasenmaher (Lawnmower) Lagerbier, Kolsch II, and Berliner-Weisse Blend. September 11: Malt Madness Homebrew Competition. Malt Madness drop off is over, but they still need judges. www.lehighvalleyhomebrewers.org September 14: Monk’s Café Beer Dinner: Local Beers and Food (and they’ll let us in the front door!) www.monkscafe.com September 15: HomeBrewers of Philadelphia (HOPS) Meeting 7pm. September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day at The Grey Lodge. AAARRRGGGHHH! www.greylodge.com September 30: Yards Beer Dinner at Chifa. www.chifarestaurant.com October 16: HOPS BOPS Competition at Nodding Head. We're a drop off point! www.hopsclub.org October 23: Valhalla - The Meading of Life Mead Competition. We're a drop off point! Iron Hill, West Chester. www.valhalla-mead.com Try something new in your brew! We’ve got a slew of new items for you to check out as well as old favorites. If you'd like to see our beer and wine making catalog, just give a click here and you'll have it. 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: Market Locally, Grow Nationally: Nancy Rigberg and George Hummel.

Our Home Sweet Homebrew Store Want to Create Your Very Own Homebrew or Wine? We'll help you!

We're not hard to find. (Plus, you'll get to meet and play with Jake and Elwood - the actual ruling entities of Home Sweet Homebrew!)

If you can't come to Home Sweet Homebrew, Home Sweet Homebrew will bring all your craft beer and wine supplies to you!

We ship anywhere, usually via UPS or the best way. We've got customers in Japan, Australia, and right down the street! And with UPS Guaranteed 2-Day Delivery, you can just about have your ingredients by the time the water boils!

Just give us a call at (215) 569-9469 and we can take your credit card order over the phone. Or, e-mail us or fax your order to (215) 569-4633.

Need a catalogue? Email us with your name, street address and how you heard about us, and we'll send one out!

Is there a piece of equipment or an ingredient you can't find? Then email us! We especially like the challenge of searching for those hard to find esoteric ingredients.

We feature our own intermediate beer brewing recipe kits, from Home Sweet Homebrew's World Beer Tour, the "Thirst of Philadelphia" (named for some of Philly's best beer bars!) and our Literary Series recipes from published articles and classes.

Click for a current listing of homebrew beer kits.

Of course, we also have a full line of grain, malt extracts, hops, yeast, additives, equipment, wine making supplies, wine concentrates and juices, fruit juices, honey, specialty sugars, herbs & spices and much more!

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:

GLASS CARBOY UPGRADE (ADD $20.00 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.)

Beginner's PubKit Ingredients $38.00

Kap’n Trips Kolsch: A deep golden crisp German style ale Oompah Altbier: Traditional malty Dusseldorf style copper ale LoveLight: for lovers of light American Beer Golden Road: Extra Pale Ale, West Coast style gold ale Pirate's Gold Ale: British Pale Ale Amber Waves: American style amber ale Wascal Wheat: a Bavarian style HefeWeizen Dark Star: Nut Brown Ale

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 info@homesweethomebrew.com.