How close is your (L)HBS

[ksb63]

About 65 miles

 

[GioGomez2010]

About 25 minutes away. 10 minutes from wok Haha

 

[Mparsons327]

5 minutes in traffic!

 

[kh54s10]

40 to one and 50 minutes to another, so I don't get there often.

 

[kaconga]

About 30 to 45 min depending on traffic and weather. Typically go in twice a month and stack it with getting other things from the city. Great people with decent selection. Kits always seem to be out of stock but always has extract and hops in good supply and fresh too. Lots of different grains to choose from and a fair amount of hardware. Just needs the other workers to learn more about beer brewing (they do wine and cheese as well)

 

[I_B_Mongo]

I use 2, ran by some guys in my brew club. One can send my order to his wife's work (about 10 min away) the next day; and the other delivers for free, and usually the same day I order!
http://www.cowtownbrewsupply.com/
http://www.apexbrewwares.com/

 

[Gitmoe]

I work at a LHBS. Takes me 25 minutes to get to work...

 

[neko]

One is only 2 miles from my house. Two others are 3.5 miles. More are 7.5, 10, 11, and 16 miles away.

Seven homebrew stores within 16 miles and there's probably a couple I'm forgetting. Score one for the Portland area.

 

[mikescooling]

The poll is asking long it takes to get there, vs how many miles. Mine is 10 miles away and can take from 15min to 90min depending on trafic. But my LHBS is a great place with lots of stock and bags of grain and hot good coffee. I like to go there and spend money even if I can find it cheeper online, becasue I enjoy the time spent there talking to people. And they know I'm in the loop of brewers and they comp me stuff now and again.

 

[petey_c]

...the smackpack warmed up and swelled in my pants and I was ready to brew.

Hmmm, I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Dan]

50 miles. It's a good shop but it's a lot easier just to have stuff show up at my door step.

Same here.

 

[zeg]

My nearest is about an hour away, but I've never been there. The one I occasionally visit is about 2 hours away, but in the city where my parents live so we get down there more often. Most of my stuff comes from Midwest or Austin, though.

 

[Kmcogar]

My local homebrew store is an hour away. I have a truck that get 15 miles to the gallon. It's cheaper to have them ship my ingredients then it is for me to drive to the store.

 

[Chap]

About 10,000 miles away to Home Brew Mart (Ballast Point) San Diego

 

[neosapien]

I can walk to mine in under 5 minutes. Love the place. They have a good selection of fresh ingredients, and will special order anything I ask for and call me when it arrives. Never realized how lucky I am until this thread.

 

[Slowfro]

I answered 15-30 minutes since that's about right from my house (maybe 25 minutes), but it's only about 8 minutes from work so it's perfect!

 

[philber]

From work it is 30 miles, 40 minute drive and from home 35 miles, still 40 minutes. They have a great selection but the prices are high, however I found that unless I do a monster order it is still cheaper to go there than to order online. So now I buy bulk hops from online, nikobrew.com. Grains from LHBS or fiftypoundsack.com, specialty grains come from LHBS if I don't roast them myself from 2-row. Yeast I have found that my only option is the LHBS, but $7 for a smack pack is steep.

Anyone know a cheap place to buy yeast online? I was watching the LHBS from New York on ebay that was selling yeast 6-12 months after use by date, but I didn't want to chance it.

 

[pm5k00]

With no traffic I can make it to mine ( Homebrew Party ) in just under 15 minutes... and its a little under an hour to Austin Homebrew Supply.

 

[user 108580]

5 minutes from my work to J&M Brewing Supply in Novato, CA.

 

[HawksBrewer]

The poll is asking long it takes to get there, vs how many miles. Mine is 10 miles away and can take from 15min to 90min depending on trafic. But my LHBS is a great place with lots of stock and bags of grain and hot good coffee. I like to go there and spend money even if I can find it cheeper online, becasue I enjoy the time spent there talking to people. And they know I'm in the loop of brewers and they comp me stuff now and again.

Do you go to Brew and Grow on Kedzie or Perfect Brewing Supply in Libertyville? I grew up in Wilmette and currently am lucky enough to live 10 min from B & G West Loop. Great selection of everything I could ever need. They also seem to have Citra and Amarillo when that IPA bug starts itching.

 

[punkrockdave]

5 minutes from my work to J&M Brewing Supply in Novato, CA.

Didn't realize there was a LHBS in Novato. Another good option while I'm out that way.

 

[user 108580]

Didn't realize there was a LHBS in Novato. Another good option while I'm out that way.

They opened up about 6 weeks ago.

 

[mikescooling]

Do you go to Brew and Grow on Kedzie or Perfect Brewing Supply in Libertyville? I grew up in Wilmette and currently am lucky enough to live 10 min from B & G West Loop. Great selection of everything I could ever need. They also seem to have Citra and Amarillo when that IPA bug starts itching.

I go to the one on Kedzie, I havent been to the one in Libertyville. I drive by there every day on my way to school. It's too easy to stop and spend some money.

 

[SparklyFarmBrewing]

Happy to say Northern Brewer St Paul is 5 minutes from my work, I spend at least one lunch break a week there!

 

[workman]

Within walking distance.

 

[the_bird]

It's a little more than an hour to get to the good shop. There was one about 25 minutes away for a couple years, but it closed (had only been open a couple years); didn't have much selection even before it became obvious that they were going downhill. Went in one day with a simple list, and they had almost nothing I needed - no US-05, no Cascade hops, no Star San... I think they had the Crystal 60°, but that was it.

There's another place an hour or so in the other direction, but every time I've stopped by they've been kind of on the rude side ("You know, most people call their grain orders in before they get here.... What do you want a three gallon carboy for, anyway?"

The good shop, though, over in Rensselaer, is a REALLY good shop. It's still pretty small, but they have pretty much anything you could ask for, and they're always super-friendly.

 

[downtown3641]

It usually takes five to ten minutes to get to mine, depending on how I catch the two lights.

 

[unionrdr]

JW Dover is about10-15 minutes up I90E from me in Westlake. They got a lot of different hops & yeasts in a really cold fridge that's temp controlled. Lots of wine & beer stuff. I gotta check oon their grain supply though. But lots of equipment,LME,DME,caps,other chemicals,etc. Prices are compareable to on line.

 

[logdrum]

JW Dover is about10-15 minutes up I90E from me in Westlake. They got a lot of different hops & yeasts in a really cold fridge that's temp controlled. Lots of wine & beer stuff. I gotta check oon their grain supply though. But lots of equipment,LME,DME,caps,other chemicals,etc. Prices are compareable to on line.

Not on Wyeast, last time I was in it was $9.50 a pack & every single 1056 in the fridge was swelled. Left empty handed.

 

[davekippen]

I am lucky. Its about 1 minute by car, 10 by foot. Great selection and cool guys running the place. Before I started brewing, I didnt even know its there. Its in the basement of an old church or something. Its called The Red Salamander, no reference to beer at all in the name!!