Home Sweet Homebrew's STORE has CLOSED!
Email us for supplies and we'll deliver.

• HSH STORE HAS CLOSED, but you can still get your beer supplies --- YOU RING, WE BRING!
  
  TRANSITION Information for Ordering, Redeeming Gift Certificates, Virtual Sacks, Meeting, etc.
  This will be updated as we move forward in our transition.
  • Gift certificates and Virtual Sacks will still be honored.
  
  
  • For ease of use, ordering ingredients for a batch (of any size) will be simpler than a random list of items.
  
  
  • We can try to accommodate recipe requests but ordering from our list of extensive kits is an easy solution.
  
  
  • Make sure to give us full contact info with an order so we can communicate with you regarding recipes. Get in contact with us via email (info@homesweethomebrew.com) for your specific recipe requests or questions.
    
    We will personally be in touch with you regarding your order, your desire to have it delivered or to arrange a pick-up at a convenient location for you.
  
  
  • Sign up for our email newsletters at the bottom of this page or on our Facebook page.



• BIG CHANGES at HOME SWEET HOMEBREW!!!.
  It may be cliche, but…"What a long strange trip it’s been."
  
  Home Sweet Homebrew has been helping you brew since 1986, and we've seen a lot of changes along the way!
  
  • Who remembers the tiny square room across the street at 2007?
  • Who remembers brewing because you couldn’t get ‘good beer’ on a regular basis in Philly?
  • How about the first tastes of Belgian beer coming into the Book and the Cook’s Michael Jackson events at the Penn Museum?
  • Or Tom Peters challenging Don Feinberg of Vanberg & DeWulf, the importers, to bring in Belgian kegs?
  • What about the Homebrew Rendezvous with Charlie Papazian at the Philopatrian Literary Institute on Walnut Street or the Michael Jackson dinner at the Ben Franklin Ballroom?
  • Or how about Sam and Mariah Draper Calagione coming to us for those initial Dogfish Head ingredients?
  
  All of that was so 20^th century, wasn’t it?
  
  Fast forward to the 21^st century... Unique and interesting beers have taken over the landscape and are almost ubiquitous wherever you drink beer now! We’ve seen so many of our former homebrewers go over to the pro side, it’s hard to keep track of how many.
  
  Changing times, challenging real estate demographics, changing retail landscape, and yes, the desire to ‘spend more time with the family’ all came into play when we made the difficult decision to give up our storefront on Sansom St. by Labor Day weekend.
  
  However, although we'll be physically off the street, we won't be far away! You ring, we bring!
  
  Yes, you can still contact us for your brews, and we’ll deliver to you, either directly or at a meet up for a beer at several of Philly’s fave beer bars. (General contact will be info@homesweethomebrew.com More info on this service in the coming days!
  
  Our next steps are moving to a so-far undisclosed location (some very intriguing news - more to be revealed soon!) and taking some time off to enjoy what other people have been doing for a while…more than one day off a week!
  
  Please stay in touch; sign up for newsletter updates and FB blasts. Share with us what all these years have meant to you. We are so very proud of all the connections we have made with you, and those that you've made with each other. That’s the legacy that we’ve hoped to leave with you, and one that homebrewing has fostered throughout history.
  
  We'll be sending out more info about our future, and how we can still help with your brewing supplies.
  
  CHEERS TO ALL!
  George and Nancy (plus Elwood, the happily retired BrewCat!)




• * * * * * * * GIFT CERTIFICATES * * * * * * *
  Gift Certificates from Home Sweet Homebrew make great gifts for the current or soon-to-be brewer on your list! Choosing HSH shows your recipient that you recognize their love of beer, and it lets them choose exactly what they want.
  
  You can easily order a gift certificate online at the bottom of any site page.
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• Home Sweet Homebrew on the Burlington County Times Front Page!
  In an article entitled "Female homebrewers continue to be outnumbered by men", Nancy Rigberg, co-owner of Home Sweet Homebrew, talks about women and brewing. More women are brewing beer now than a few years ago, but the majority of brewers are men.
  
  Women, come on in to Home Sweet Homebrew and help the trend towards more female brewers!
  
  "Craft beer and brewing what you want are real expressions of being able to assert your independence. If you’re drinking it, you will at some point say you can brew it. We can do anything. Women can brew it."
  -- Nancy Rigberg



• Gift Certificates are a 'light' way to Ship Beer
  Want a present for a beer lover? Are they too far away to ship beer to them? No problem! Gift certificates from Home Sweet Homebrew are light and easy.
  
  You can purchase Gift Certificates at the bottom of any page. We'll take care of the rest.



• NEW! Gluten-free American Pale Ale
  A gluten-free version of a classic American Pale Ale (APA) is now available in both the full 5 gallon ($39.95) and half-batch 2.5 gallon ($21.95) ingredient packages. Gluten-free yeast is included. Call us for more info and brew a gluten-free beer.



• Beginner's Pubkits and Intermediate Recipes
  You get all the pre-measured and easy to use ingredients to create 5 gallons of beer for only $39.95! Ramble on Rye, Onkel Fester and Brother Thomas and more!
  
  Also, we've added White IPA and Belgian Chocolate Stout recipe packages to our list of partial grain/extract beer recipes. See our Beer Store page for the full list.



• "Good taste, good timing: How Philly became the best beer city in America"
  You're going to love this fully developed BillyPenn.com article on the history and current state of craft beer in Philadelphia, which (of course) includes the role of Home Sweet Homebrew owners George Hummel and Nancy Rigberg. Just a few of the other players in this article include Tom Peters of Monk's Cafe, Standard Tap's William Reed, Dock Street Brewery's Rosemarie Certo, distributor Ed Friedland, and the Philadelphia Inquirer's Craig LaBan. These people and more have contributed to Philly's beer renaissance, with GQ, Esquire, Frommer's, the AP and Forbes recognizing Philadelphia as an excellent beer city.



• "Meet the women brewing up the local beer scene"
  "From owners to homebrewers, six ladies talk beer, business & the boys' club."
  
  In this phillyvoice.com article by Aubrey Nagle, you can read about Home Sweet Homebrew's Nancy Rigberg, and five other influential women in Philadelphia brewing: Carol Stoudt, Rosemarie Certo, Christina Burris, Jamie Queli and Gina Vasoli.




• George Hummel on WHYY's "The Pulse" in "How science saved beer"
  George Hummel added his brewing knowledge to a segment entitled "How science saved beer". Learn a bit about bacteria and the beer industry.




• Take a moment to view this video conversation among George Hummel, Nancy Rigberg, and Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione (founder and President) as they reminisce about the old days of brewing in Philadelphia.



• George Hummel on WHYY: Keeping the craft beer flowing in Philadelphia
  Listen to George on Philadelphia's WHYY radio station in an interview with NewsWorks Tonight's host, Dave Heller.


• Gift Certificates are perfect all year long.  Beer brewing ingredients, brewing books, kits, etc. are great present ideas for birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's or Father's Day, ... or just because.. A HSH gift certificate says that you care about the recipient, and "please, may I have some of your homebrewed beer?". Easy to order at the bottom of every page.