In 2014, I decided to move into all grain method since I realized that I want to be in greater control of the processes and the flavours of the beer that I get.įor 4 months each day at evening after work, I was watching hundreds or even thousands of YouTubes and reading articles explaining how to build different parts in the brewery. My journey into home brewing started when I received a wedding gift from my friends: ‘a homebrew kit’ (2011) My first batch (2011)įrom batch to batch I learned some new things regarding brewing. You can view the Instagram feed here as well. I’m trying to be as clear as I can be describing the processes and the tools that I use in my homebrewery. As long as it is and you follow the recipe, it’s like making soup.This is a personal blog describing the building process and the operation of my home operated Brewery. Everything that touches the beer after it’s cooked needs to be cleaned and sanitized. The other thing I tell everybody, especially first-time brewers, is that sanitation is the most important thing.
If something does go wrong, you’re going to notice it much more. I wouldn’t want to start you with a light lager or something like that. Because if it has a lot of flavor, if everything isn’t absolutely perfect, it’s still going to be a darn nice beer. I’d start you out with something like a brown ale or a stout or a red ale. What do you recommend for a first-time brewer? You can’t get much fresher than that.Īnd if suddenly you’re selling out of all the beer you can make, you think, “Hey, maybe I have something going here.” You walk in and a guy (who) has a small brewery in his garage is at the farmers’ market with bottles of beer for sale. I know they do that in England, and it’s great. To be a local brewer, to be able to do that at a farmers’ market would be very good. They’re doing a great job promoting local crops and ingredients. There are so many farmers’ markets out there now. Should homebrewers be allowed to sell their beer at farmers’ markets? Try it.” There’s a lot of gratification to that, especially when they say, “Wow, that’s great beer!”Īlso, for $25 to $30 worth of ingredients, you can make 5 gallons worth of beer. It’s great to be able to walk into a friend’s house and say, “Hey, I brewed this. What about the customers who don’t have business aspirations?
The creativity as a homebrewer translates into small craft breweries and nanobreweries, and lets people make a go of it as a business. A lot of the breweries out there now started off as homebrewers. They want to open their own breweries.Įven if it’s just a small little brewery, it’s a thing where they’ve been brewing on their own for a while and they want to step it up and do it as a full-time business. I would say probably 10 percent of our customers have that in the back of their mind. Bowser, a 58-year-old Pembroke resident, said both experiences have served him well at the store’s helm.Ī lot of homebrewers back 10 or 15 years ago stepped it up and opened their own breweries. Jim Bowser – who spent most of his career in hardware and building materials retailing and has brewed as a hobby for 19 years – is the store’s manager. In addition to selling everything from hops to books to brewing kits, the South Shore store also serves as the warehouse for all four Emporium stores. The store is the Rensselaer, N.Y.-based Emporium’s fourth, and its first since opening the Cambridge shop about a decade ago. Since opening in January in South Weymouth, the South Shore Homebrew Emporium has developed a loyal customer base of recreational and aspiring brewers. With many customers of its Cambridge store making the trek from south of Boston, the Homebrew Emporium saw a welcoming market for a homebrewing specialty store on the South Shore.
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