Local Home Brew Store

A Local Home Brew Store (LHBS) is a great place to pick up additional brewing supplies. In central New Jersey, there are 2 LHBS that are equidistant from where I live. Corrado's Family Market in Clifton and The Brewer's Apprentice in Freehold are both about a 40 minute drive each way.

Today I took a trip to The Brewer's Apprentice and picked up some extra beer ingredients for some upcoming recipes. In addition to adding malt extract to improve a Mr. Beer recipe, it is said that using better yeast will result in a better beer. I purchased:

1 lb. Amber Dry Malt Extract (DME)
1 lb. Wheat Dry Malt Extract (DME)
2 oz. Cascade Hops
2 oz. Centennial Hops
1 Safbrew S-33 Ale Yeast
1 Safbrew T-58 Ale Yeast

The Amber DME, hops, and S-33 yeast are going to get added to the American Devil IPA recipe and the Wheat DME and t-58 yeast will be used with the Witty Monk.

Today was also bottling day for my Whispering Wheat Weizenbier since it passed the taste and color test (just like clear and flat bud light again). I have been saving

as many beer bottles as possible over the past few weeks. The labels of Sam Adam's bottles are extremely easy to remove after soaking them in oxiclean. It is recommended to use 1 plastic PET bottle each time so you can give it the "squeeze test". You know the bottle is carbonating if it is firm.