![]() I put some music on, made sure the brewing kettle didn’t boil over, poured in hops and malt extract and, using a timer, followed the other steps. It remained in a closet for almost three months until, on an idle Saturday, I brought it to the kitchen and began brewing a batch of German-style hefeweizen. I was delighted to get such a thoughtful gift. Turns out it was his and our other son, Blaine’s, Christmas present to me. Homebrewing Equipment Supplies in Washington on YP.com. I called our son Sam, who lives in Washington, D.C., and is a homebrewer, thinking he ordered it for himself. Then last December, a big cardboard box with Northern Brewer’s logo arrived at my doorstep. Finally, she suggested I dump the barrels, along with the tubes, rods, gauges and other paraphernalia that look like they could have come from the workshop of a scientist, or sorcerer. ![]() Over the next 30-odd years, my wife and I moved frequently, with the brew kit accompanying our household goods each time. I had other things to do, though honestly I should chalk up my lack of persistence to laziness. It was a lot of work, including sterilizing all the equipment and bottles in the confines of our small apartment in Brooklyn. My third and last attempt back then, an Anchor Steam Beer style, turned out fine. I myself brewed long before Inda Pale Ales became the rage in America.īack in the early 1990s, my first attempt, a brown ale, was a failure I had added too much water. Homebrewing starter kits are also selling very well, he said. “They’re dusting off their old equipment, the fermenters, and they’re going back and brewing some of those classic-style IPAs, those more bitter IPAs, like we used to do,” he said. for the homebrew division of BSG HandCraft, a wholesaler of brewing supplies. Hazy IPAs are trendy these days, but many customers are asking for “classic hops” - like cascade, centennial, chinook - that were popular years ago, said Mike Brennan, sales manager in the western U.S. “I think with the tight community that we have, the homebrewing community, and with the fact that once people start homebrewing they usually continue down the road, I feel like we could survive this,” she said.
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