home brew supply shops in......NJ!

[xrobevansx]

I live on Long Island and prefer Corrado's.
The nice thing about them, they always have new things coming in.
The other day they had 10 gal. glass demijohns with spigots drilled into them.

I was hoping to have 6 gallon carboys made with glass spigots made into them, but turns out you cant "weld" different types of glass together. The glass used for carboys isn't borosilicate.

 

[Bithead]

Difficult but not impossible. I'd start talking to Jeff Linkous who writes http://beerstainedletter.blogspot.com/ and maybe you can get info from http://www.njbeer.org/

 

[Bithead]

Also, any home brew clubs in your aread and poll HBT and other brewing site members and ask theese folks http://www.jerseybrewers.com/.

 

[HoppyMaltPoet]

I live on Long Island and prefer Corrado's.
The nice thing about them, they always have new things coming in.
The other day they had 10 gal. glass demijohns with spigots drilled into them.

Have you tried Karp's in Huntington or Arbor Wine in Islip too? Wondering what you would say as a comparison. I would imagine that travel time would be similar from Great Neck, but you wouldn't have to deal with city traffic and or bridges and tolls getting to Corrado's.

Prices aren't bad at Karp's although the selection is lacking. But I can get a 50lb bag of 2-row Briess for $50. Arbor is a bit more expensive but a much better selection. Same 50lb bag is $70 there. Just as examples.

 

[Bruin]

I live in W Morris County and joined NJHOPZ this year. Seems that the Keystone Brewing place is popular with our club members. It is off 78 just into PA. I have bought yeast from Gaslight/ubrew. Yeast is always fresh, and they had the 3 liquid Wyeast strains I requested.

 

[beergolf]

I live in South Jersey and a new brew shop opend up in Westmont called Brew Your Own Bottle. The owner seem pretty helpful and he seems To have a pretty good selection of stuff. Lots of different choices of grains, LME, DME, hops and yeasts. I am new to brewing and have not done a lot of price comparisons.

 

[slinky0390]

I'm not sure if you guys know, but Brewers Apprentice relocated and their shop is much larger and they seemed to have much more stock of everything compared to when they were on route 79.

 

[TWS22]

Brewers Apprentice new place is nice, but the staffing levels are even worse than before, it seems. I've been in there 2x since the move and had to wait 30-40 minutes each time to get a question answered/make a purchase.

 

[Jrome]

Not sure if its been mentioned, but Princeton Homebrew in Trenton is worth a visit. Always stocked and fresh, decent prices. Joe, the owner, is a great guy and always willing to help.

 

[cbauer210]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Brooklyn Homebrew. It is probably not the most convenient for some NJ people, but if you live or work near manhattan, it is not very deep in Brooklyn. It's a fairly easy subway trip or drive. It is small, but packed to the gills with stuff. They have everything I could ever ask for or need. The owners are great and helpful. Prices are average.... Not spectacular. But when you factor in the cost of NYC rent, they are doing a pretty damn good job of keeping the prices down.

 

[Daver77]

http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/connecticut/monroe/maltose-express-home-brew-&-wine-supplies/1348.htm
Maltose Express is the best place I have seen so far. Good staffing helpful people price ok. Stock everything. In fact the owner wrote the book Clone Brews http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160342539X/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

It's an hour and 20 min from me but I call it a sunday drive and head out. Sometimes my fishing spots area about that same distance.

Corrados never have everything I'm looking for. I went in there looking for ingredients out of the how to brew book and had to substitute so much I came out brewing a different beer all together.

 

[jafo28]

Not sure if its been mentioned, but Princeton Homebrew in Trenton is worth a visit. Always stocked and fresh, decent prices. Joe, the owner, is a great guy and always willing to help.

+1, Joe is a great guy. I can e-mail him a recipe that I want to brew and he'll have it all ready for me crushed grains and all. He can talk your ear of though.

 

[rtt121]

+1, Joe is a great guy. I can e-mail him a recipe that I want to brew and he'll have it all ready for me crushed grains and all. He can talk your ear of though.

-1 for Joe at princeton homebrew. He wont get my business again. PM for details

 

[Daver77]

I was just at Corrados to get a better bottle and while they did have the bottle they didn't have jack for ingredients. It's been 2 weeks since I was there and they haven't replenished. They are sad, I wish I had the money to open a brew shop!

 

[jafo28]

-1 for Joe at princeton homebrew. He wont get my business again. PM for details

PM sent.

 

[infection]

these are the 2 shops I frequent in southern NJ:

http://www.brewyourownbottle.com

http://www.kegandbarrelhomebrewsupply.com

The owners; Brett and Kevin usually come to our monthly homebrew meetings @ Iron Hill, Maple Shade....2 good shops IMHO

 

[TWS22]

went to Corrado's today. very disappointed - no glass carboys and understaffed. took an eternity to have two quick questions about what they stock answered.

it turned into a complete waste of time.

 

[molsonG]

corrados improved a lot in the past year...yet the manager is still wine focused. The last time i went they had a real good employe, but the girl runing the cashier wasnt the best. The employee might only work weekends.

I still dont understand why they dont fill up containers with base malts and invest in a scale and grinder and sell by the pound that way instead of just preweighed bags

 

[zyx345]

I find the hop prices at Corrados to be reasonable and the last time I was there they had a decent selection of hops in stock. I'm piecing together a Dogfish Head 90 Extract recipe and I'll be picking up my Hops from them.

Their liquid yeast and DME prices are a little on the higher side but not outrageous by any means.

 

[montbardbrewing]

Corrado's is an absolute sham. They normally have one guy working there who isn't particularly knowledgeable or helpful. I always get a really strange feeling walking into that place, totally feels like it's a front for some other operation...

I'm from northern NJ and I don't know of any other LHBS's within the area. I end up ordering most of my stuff from Midwest, Austin, the usual. Although lately I've been working out of Rhode Island and hanging out at the Basement Brewhaus, great shop.

Yeah so I always end up being disappointed going to Corrado's. You're better off buying your ingredients online and having them delivered.

 

[Bruin]

Been having real good experiences with the Grape and Granary in Akron, OH. They sell online too. Whenever I visit my sister in Kent, OH, I stop by and stock up on supplies, save on shipping since I'm driving out there anyway. I have yet to check out Keystone Brewing just into PA off of 78. Been hearing good things.

 

[ArcLight]

I live in Millburn NJ (Essex County).
Here is the Gaslight Brewery / U-Brew price list.

http://www.gaslightbrewery.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/U-Brew-Price-Catalogue.pdf

Their price seem ok, but they don't have a huge selection, and are open by appointment.

I am meaning to join the Brewing club.
I'm kind of annoyed - I signed up for the email list and went there in person, expressing interest, fille dout a form - and never got a notice.

 

[Bruin]

NJHopz is still accepting members! Our main group meets in Hackettstown, kind of far for you. Our more eastern members meet in Boonton off of I-287 north of 80, the NJHopz "east" boys! I've bought stuff from gaslight before, mainly yeast. The Wyeast smack packs have always been fresh. I like the Grape and Granary mini-mash kits. Good instructions and really good results with 2 of their brews so far (Steam Beer and Dry Irish Stout).

 

[ray718]

i've visited gaslight to pick up wyeast packs. I called in ahead to see if they had what i was looking for and surprisingly it was waiting for me for me in the fridge.

Don't be surprised when you get to gaslight and find that it's a bar and not a stand alone LHBS . You have to go in and mention UBREW to whoever attends to you.

the older gentleman that took care of me told me that his son is the brewer there and mentioned whatever i need just to give them a call.

i live in ny but was staying at my girls place in clifton during that time. This was the closest place where i could get "emergency" yeast for the batch i made that weekend.

if you are REALLY UP north jersey, i would suggest takin a trip to ny. brooklyn homebrew for your grains and supplies.

 

[montbardbrewing]

Yeah N
BK homebrew will be my next stop, as a bag of grains broke in my trunk. It's everywhere. Was hoping there'd be a shop closer, Rockland county NY is real close.

 

[ArcLight]

Can someone point me to the folder (or whatever its called, group) that is titled something like "New Jersey" brewers.

There are some sub groups somewhere I cant seem to find

 

[Brohlijk]

Hello everyone, this is my first post and also my first question of many to come ,

I happened to stumble upon a very cool vintage Brass faucet, but now i cant find a barbed tail piece that will go with it, the shank is 3/4" wide and the thread is 7/8, i have scoured lowes and home depot and the only thing the guy at Home depot offered was a hose for a toilet and other 2 pieces just so i could use it, now all was fine until he handed me the toilet hose, i simply left, i have searched for a tail piece so i can connect the hose but no luck, can anyone show me the way?

 

[Brohlijk]

also when using a Co2 4 way distributor and a 7lbs Co2 tank, should I get the distributor with or without the safety valve?

 

[Bruin]

Brohlijk, you may want to re-post in the applicable thread, something like "kegging equipment". This thread is for homebrew shops in NJ.

 

[Rich_S]

Not sure if its been mentioned, but Princeton Homebrew in Trenton is worth a visit. Always stocked and fresh, decent prices. Joe, the owner, is a great guy and always willing to help.

I second this comment. It's where I go when I don't mail order.