I've been toying around with the idea of homebrewing. Amanda told me there was a homebrew store near our house, and yesterday some friends suggested I to the Northern Brewer store. As it turns out, these were the one and the same!
We dropped the dogs off to get groomed, grabbed some breakfast, window shopped furniture, and then went to the Northern Brewer store. It was great! And extremely close to our house! Hooray for proximity!
We were the first ones in the store and a gentleman working there greeted us. I told him that I was thinking of getting into brewing so he showed me their starter kits, gave me their class schedule and catalogue, suggested some reading material to get started and told me to look around. He was helpful, friendly, open, funny and not pushy at all. If anyone is thinking of picking up homebrewing and is in the Milwaukee, WI area, I strongly suggest they stop by the retail store at 1306 S 108th St.
They have a lot of equipment, kits, individual ingredients (including both malt extracts and grain malts) and bottles. They also have equipment for making homemade soda and wine. They also have classes there for prices that I think are reasonable. I walked into their grain malts room and it smelled fantastic! I'm not saying I'm going to buy a starter kit for equipment from them, but when I get up and running, I'm definately going to them for recipe kits. And when I decide to break away from kits, I'll go to them for individual ingredients. I love buying stuff in store and going home with it, so this is perfect for me!
Granted all of this assumes that I actually follow through and try homebrewing. I think I've already made up my mind. Now I just need to set aside money to get started. I'm saving non-screw top bottles now so I can save some money on bottles at least.
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