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This place is decent, but due to the lack of any competition, I end up going here because I lack the foresight to order stuff online. Good place to buy live ladybugs for the garden, though! I still stop in and support them whenever it's reasonable-it's great to have a spot to hop over to for a bag of yeast or priming sugar in a pinch-but they're not in enough of a homebrew frame of mind to thrive.
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The real reason I've stopped going is that I've switched to all grain and they just don't have an inventory to support it. If you're looking for knowledgeable brewing advice, you'll be let down. If you know what you want, or if you're reasonably new to brewing and looking for basic ingredients or kits, it's a non-issue.
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but as someone who's worked plenty of retail, I can't blame them for that. as I've become more experienced, I've realized that they're fronting a lot of knowledge that they don't necessarily have. The staff has always been friendly to me, and helpful if you're totally new to brewing. They just recently (late fall 07) reorganized the store, but it seems like the homebrew stuff is even more short changed now. I've been going for several years though, as it's the only game in town.Īs others have said, it's 95% gardening with a heavy hydro leaning, and maybe 5% homebrew. This has been the only homebrew store in the city for a while, and it's a hassle to get out to without a car/motorcycle. Kinda makes me want to open my own homebrew shop. I'm a partial mash brewer who's dying to go all-grain once I have the space, so this incident from two years ago remains fresh in my memory: I was loitering in front of the grain selection, just trying to decide if I wanted to stock up on anything, when the owner came by and said, "why don't you just by a kit?" The staff is willing to fetch items from the stock room, but their regular inventory of ingredients is so-so, homebrewing knowledge is limited, and prices are now high enough that it makes more sense to order from a site like Northern Brewer and pay shipping. Now it is on the margins, and this pretty much sums up their attitude toward homebrew customers. Over the past three years the homebrew section of this store has slowly shrunk, and it has been shifted three times, each time farther and farther from the front door.
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The owner/manager guy always asks me what I'm brewing when he rings me up (points for showing interest), but when I told him "something Delerium Tremens-ish" he had no idea what I was talking about. Yet they have Trappist ale yeast in stock. Why? Because last weekend I went there to pick up some caps and DME and maybe some grains, and first of all was amazed to find that they don't carry any specialty grains for Belgian beers, such as biscuit, special b, or aromatic (although if I think about it, they never have). guess my opinion of the place has always been more or less in agreement with the other reviews.īut now I've given up on this store completely except for last-second bottling sugar or cap purchases. This is the only game in town and I've been shopping there sporadically for three years. I can't believe I haven't reviewed this place before. The gardening part of the store looks impressive, but I don't know anything about worms or grow lights *