Summer Drawings

Brewery Beer Glasses

Homebrew USA is hosting a drawing for 2 tickets to attend the Richmond World Beer Festival on June 12, 2010.  Entry forms are available at both the Norfolk and Hampton stores.  Enter the drawing each time you visit the store until June 7 for a greater chance to win the tickets!  To thank our loyal internet customers, an entry will be placed in the drawing with each web order.

The giveaways will continue all summer and entries will be eligible for all future drawings.  Stay tuned to emails for future drawings!

Homebrew USA will now be carrying custom glassware from a number of breweries.  They are currently available in the Hampton store and should arrive at the Norfolk store within a few days.

CHEERS!

This Saturday, May 1st, we will be celebrating National Homebrew Day at our Homebrew USA location in the JANAF Shopping Center in Norfolk, VA.  We have rented tents so this will be a rain or shine event.  Those wishing to bring out their brewing equipment and brew along side other brewers may begin setting up anytime after 8am. We will provide munchies for the brewers in the morning and a full cookout in the afternoon for all those wishing to join the party.  Members from B.A.R.F. (Beer and Ale Research Foundation) will be out representing their club and this is a perfect opportunity to have any of your brewing questions answered.  We are looking forward to a great party and hope to see you there!

• Weather and Hours

• Hampton Store Update

• Website Orders

• Comments

Weather and Hours

As we are just getting dug out of our local history-making snow storm, the weather forecasters are starting to hype another possible storm this weekend!  Luckily, we brewers and vintners don’t have to worry about access to supplies.  We opened regular hours last weekend and will do the same this weekend no matter what Mother Nature decides to bring us.  For those that want to stock up before the possible nasty weather, we will have plenty of personnel on hand Thursday and Friday.  If you decide to wait for the weekend, you won’t need to call to see if we are open.  We will be here.  Come have some hot cocoa with us!

Hampton Store Update

The build out of the Hampton store is complete.  We are now in the process of interviewing employees for both the Hampton store and the Norfolk store.  If you are interesting in full or part-time work at either store, please contact us at the Norfolk store (757) 459-2739.  If you know anyone that might be interested in a position, please spread the word.  We would prefer to hire employees with brewing experience, but are willing to train someone if they are motivated and reliable.

Website Orders

We have tweaked the website a bit and will soon be adding more brewing kits and a better system for those brewers that wish to create their own recipes.  Currently we are shipping orders received by 3pm the same day and for residents of our local region, those orders are often delivered the very next day.

Comments

As always, we strive to serve you the best we can.  If you have any suggestions for how we may better serve you, please feel free to email your comments to brewshop@homebrewusa.com.

CHEERS!

The Crew at HomebrewUSA

Join us this Saturday for National Teach a Friend To Brew Day!

Saturday, November 7th – 10am to late afternoon

The first Saturday of November is designated National Teach a Friend To Brew Day. HomebrewUSA hosts a party each year in celebration. This year the party was almost canceled due to our work overload associated with the opening of our new store in Hampton, VA. To our excitement, B.A.R.F (Beer and Ale Research Foundation) a local homebrew club approached us and offered to host the party!

This party is always a lot of fun and a great opportunity to ask all of your brewing questions. The club will set up and brew in the parking lot in front of HomebrewUSA. All homebrewers are invited to bring out your brewing equipment and join in the brew session! Brewers will begin setting up at 8am and the official party starts at 10am. B.A.R.F. will also host a cookout for the party! Join us for the fun and bring friends and family for an introduction to the art of brewing!

Also, if you have any friends interested in homebrewing, this is the perfect time for an introduction. Not only can they see brewing in action, but in recognition of “Teach a Friend To Brew Day” we always offer an additional 10% discount on all brewing equipment kits during this entire week. So come out, brew if you wish, enjoy the cookout and save some money if you have wanted to get a start in the art of homebrewing!

Just a quick announcement:

The experts from HomeBrewUSA will be guests on the “Rumble in the Morning” show on FM99 this Thursday, around 8am-ish.

Rick Rumble will be tasting some of the hand-crafted beer that will be served at the 10th Annual Who’s Yo’ Caddy Golf Tournament at Heron Ridge Golf Club in Virginia Beach on Friday, September 18.

For more information about this special event, check out the FM99 web site.

We are sorry to say all of the Chocolate Raspberry Port wine kits are sold out.

However, we did order plenty of other wine kits, and everything from the Vintners Reserve to the top-of-the-line Estate Series are on sale with a 10% discount through the end of the week. If you can’t make it into the store, call us to order and we will hold it for you.

The window is closing to make wines so they will time to age a bit for holiday gift giving.

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• New Store
• Summer Brewing
• New Award-Winning Recipe
• Money Saving Tips
• Chocolate Raspberry Port and Wine Discount
• Just a note….

New Store:

After many pleas from our customers, we are pleased to announce we will be expanding to the Peninsula!  We have signed for a property on Mercury Blvd. just east of the new Peninsula Towne Center in Hampton, Virginia.  The build-out will take a couple of months and we hope we can still count on your patronage at the Norfolk store until it’s completion.  We will need the business to cover our gas to sit in the tunnel!

Summer Brewing:

Now is the perfect time to brew for the even hotter weeks to come.  To you diehard all-grain brewers, we salute you, but you won’t find us in front of a turkey burner right now in this humidity.  We opt for a couple of extract brews with steeping grains to get us through the duration of the summer because nothing tastes better than a refreshing homebrew on a hot summer day!  Liquid malt extract is tastier than it has ever been.  You can brew up a cream ale, wheat, blonde ale, pale ale, IPA or brown ale now and be patting yourself on the back in a couple of weeks when you toast another hot summer day!

New Award Winning Recipe:

Our congratulations go out to Douglas Griffin for his 2nd place win in the National Homebrew Competition with his American Brown Ale.  Doug was one of only two that placed from the state of Virginia.  Doug has graciously given us his award-winning recipe and it is now available at the store as an extract and all-grain kit.  Our many thanks Doug and way to go!

Money Saving Tips:

Don’t forget to bring back your malt buckets for reuse and savings on your next kit!  Reusing them also helps keep our planet clean.  “Save the Earth.  It is the only planet with beer!”  We also offer an in store 10% discount to all local homebrew club members and AHA members.   Website customers in the mid-Atlantic region also save money on shipping, and morning orders can generally be delivered next day!

Chocolate Raspberry Port and Wine Savings:

We have ordered a few Winexpert kits of the one-time release Chocolate Raspberry Port.  Call or come by now to reserve yours.  We only have a few and we anticipate they will be gone almost immediately.  We are again offering the 10% discount on all wine kits for the month of August.  The window is closing to make wines so they will time to age a bit for holiday gift giving.

Just a note…

Our friend Deborah, owner of Grape and Gourmet, includes funnies in her newsletter that always make me giggle.  So here is to you Deborah!

“Any woman can have the body of a 21 year old, as long as she buys him a few drinks first.”

Cheers!