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Announcing the Homebrew Emporium Winter Grain Buy! Didn’t get all the grain you wanted from Santa?  You can treat yourself right now! Save on full sacks of grain during this grain buy Order by January 31st Pickup by February 15th You can contact us with your order or with questions by phone, email or in[…]

PRE-ORDER YOURS BY Friday, November 7th Makes 6 gallons —– Bottle labels included. Descriptions for the 5 different wine kits can be seen below. Wine kits will be available for pick up starting in December 2025, with one kit being released each month through April 2026. Please call 518 283 7094 if you have any[…]

Finger Lakes Juice 2025  Now Available for Pre-Order Your order and pre-payment must be received by 6pm, Tuesday, September 30th. The harvest was postponed by 1 week for all grapes. We now have a different selection for everything and we feel a better selection in general. We had to remove Chardonnay, Chancellor, Corot Noir, Noiret[…]

PRE-ORDER YOURS BY NOVEMBER 10, 2024 Makes 6 gallons —– Bottle labels included. Descriptions for the 5 different wine kits can be seen below. Wine kits will be available for pick up starting in December 2024, with one kit being released each month through April 2025. Please call 518 283 7094 if you have any[…]

The following is a list of available hop rhizomes that you may purchase: Cascade Centennial Chinook Fuggle Kent Golding Hallertau Nugget Willamette They are $6 each and buy five get one free. They are very easy to plant, perennial, very ornamental and you can brew with the hop cones that they produce. We will provide[…]

Come and brew with us on Big Brew Day MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US! You can bring your brewing equipment and we will supply the ingredients to you to brew 5 gallons of “Return of the Jedi Pale Ale” We’ll give you the recipe as well when you arrive on May 4. You can[…]

With spring here it’s time to brew, and we have a special for all grain brewers! The Homebrew Emporium is once again organizing a bulk grain purchase on behalf of our customers. Order by April 15th Pickup grains by May 4th Briess 2-row Brewer’s Malt is $55 for a 50 lb sack Rahr 2-row is[…]

Deadline for Ordering is Friday, November 10, 2023 Descriptions for the 5 different wine kits can be seen below. Wine kits will be available for pick up starting in December 2023, with one kit being released each month through April 2024. Please call 518 283 7094 if you have any questions or to place an[…]

Finger Lakes Juice 2023 Now Available for Pre-Order Your price includes 6 gallons of juice in a new bucket. Your order and pre-payment must be received by Wednesday, October 4th. at 6PM We will visit the Finger Lakes on Friday, October 6th this year. You can pickup the juice late afternoon Saturday, October 7th or[…]

Every year there are hundreds of contests to determine who makes the best beer and certified judges are always needed. The BJCP, Beer Judge Certification Program, has over 7,500 certified judges. If you want to become a judge we can help you to pass the beer judge test with this class.     George DiPiro, Master[…]