Emporium Farm Brewery (EFB) opened August 18th. The EFB is a spin-off of Homebrew Emporium, the Capital Region’s oldest homebrew supply store. Homebrew Emporium has taught tens of thousands of local brewers to make beer and wine, perhaps even you. EFB is located adjacent to Homebrew Emporium at 472 North Greenbush Road, in Rensselaer, NY.[…]

Road Trip: S&S Brewery, Nassau, NY   Anita and I cruised down Rt. 66 to 150 and Rt. 20 east until we got to Jefferson Hill Road. About ½ mile down the S&S barn appeared on the left. We parked and walked over to the picnic area where the music played. There’s a food truck,[…]

    ROAD TRIP: Prison City Brewery, Auburn, NY Friday morning bright and early, or at least somewhat early, Anita and I headed to Auburn, NY for a wedding. We settled in on I90 west and drove about 3 hours. We passed cities that brought back memories of when we first moved upstate after my[…]

Update; New equipment. Another large box arrived for the store yesterday. We had to unload in the back of the building, where our friends, Buell’s Carpet Sales, have a loading dock.   We unloaded in the back and anxiously tore open the crate.   Once open we put the wheels on the mill. Russ and[…]

Now is the time to lager. With the cold weather there’s usually a colder spot in the house. I started a sort of German Pilsner. However, I wanted to try some of the newer hop strains. Last year I tried one with German Hull melon and it was delicious. This year I’m using German smargd,[…]

  *** Holiday Gift Specials *** – offer is valid until January 4th, 2018 Buy a Wine Equipment kit (regularly $124.95)  and any Wine Juice Kit (priced up to $94.95) and pay only $169.95 all together. The above price includes PET plastic 6 gallon carboy equipment kit and a wine juice kit. The combination price[…]

*** Holiday Gift Specials *** – offer is valid until January 4th, 2018 Buy a Beer Equipment kit and any Brewer’s Best or True Brew ingredient kit worth up to $40 for $99.95 (regularly $124.95). Customer pays the difference for ingredient kits greater than $40 in value. ——————————————————————— Add-on Specials for Holiday Equipment purchases: Buy[…]

Renovations proceed on the exterior of our building at 472 North Greenbush Road.  All the windows and doors that were planned to be closed off are done. Exterior plywood is up and everything is caulked. We just about finished putting up the Tyvek wrap to seal the building.  That’s easy and should be done this[…]

We drove to the middle of Long Island on T-Day morning at 7am. Not a car on the Taconic or LIE.  We had a nice T-Day where we saw Anita and my family. Friday we had a small delivery to make at the New Rochelle store. On the way we visited Chris Seldon at his[…]

Road Trip: Peekskill Brewery 47-53 South Water Street Peekskill, NY 10566   We make a supply run every other week to stock Westchester Homebrew Emporium. This past trip Anita agreed to come if we made a few side trips on the way back. The plan was to visit Peekskill Brewpub and then a historic site,[…]