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Hello Everyone my name is Yuseff and I am taking over the e-mail. I have been working for Home Brew Mart for six years ans have been brewing at home for seven years. I also brew for our brewery along with Pete.
First off, the Solana Beach store has officially closed down. We have spread ourselves a little thin over the last year and felt the need to consolidate our two stores. With Ballast Point Brewing Co. doing well and the San Diego store thriving we had little time to run a third business. We decided that running two businesses was enough and hope that the change will be for the better. With more time devoted to running the store properly I hope to see Home Brew Mart and Ballast Point continue to be the best in the business.

New Products

Here are the latest recipes:

Celebration IPA
Beat the Heat Wheat
Carol's Alt Beer
Golden Amber

Celebration IPA
9.5 lbs Pale malt extract
.5 lbs Crystal malt 60 lovibond
.5 lbs Crystal malt 80 lovibond
.5 lbs Carapils/Dextrin
2 oz Galena Boil 1 hour
1 oz Centennial finish last 5 minutes
1 oz Cascade last minute
California Ale Yeast
Dry hop one ounce cascade after primary fermentation

Beat the Heat Wheat
7 lbs Wheat/Malt syrup
.25 lbs Carapils/Dextrin
.25 lbs Crystal malt 10 lovibond
1oz German Tradition boil 45 minutes
1 oz German Tradition last 5 minutes of boil
White Labs American Hefe Wheat Beer Yeast

Carol's Alt Beer
8 lbs Pale malt syrup
.25 lbs Caramunich
.25 lbs dark Brit. Crystal Malt 135 lovibond
.25 lbs Carapils/Dextrin
1 lb Crystal Malt 60 lovibond
2 oz Chocolate Malt
1 oz Northern Brewer Boil 60 minutes
1 oz Norther Brewer Last Minute of Boil
White Labs German Ale Yeast

Golden Amber
4 lbs Pale Malt syrup
4 lbs Amber Malt Syrup
2 oz Cascade boil 60 minutes
1oz Cascade last minute of boil
California Ale Yeast or Your Choice

We have a couple new products:

Gnome Root Beer flavoring.  This 4oz product makes ten gallons of great root beer and comes with full instructions.  It works well with keg systems too!  Remember that root beer flavor tends to permenantely taint lines or plastic so be careful with cross contaminating your beer stuff with root beer flavor, that is,  dedicated root beer equipment.  $7.95

Auto-Siphon starts the siphon for you.  This product works like a big syringe, you suck up the beer then push down and a one way valve does the rest.  $9.50

7.75 and 15.5 gal stainless keg conversions.  These are old barrel style kegs that have been modified into kettles complete with 1/2" ball valves for draining cooked wort. The 7.75 goes for $79.95 and the 15.5 goes for $89.95 with brass ball valves, add $20 for stainless valves. Perfect for outdoor cooking!

Finally a hand corker with the ease of a floor model. The Gilda corker has a aperature that evenly compresses the cork. $25.95

For all the Solana Beach customers and to remind the San Diego regulars our hours are
Monday-Friday 11:00-7:00   Saturday 10:00-5:00    Sunday 12:00-4:00

Call us at 619 295-2337 with any questions!

Thanks see ya next time
Yuseff