Chocolate Cherry Bomb Stout. NEW !!  If you like our Chocolate Covered Stout, then you are in for an experience with this new addition to the ABS original recipes.  This is a must-brew for all stout lovers.  Oh yeah, and women dig it.

BIG DADDY Dave's Imperial Stout.  NEW !! In celebration of Dave's new addition to the ABS family, we annouce this big kickin' stout, long in the making, but worth the wait.  Here's to little Porter!

MAIN SQUEEZE SUMMER LEMON ALE.  Ready to get your summer grove on?  Bust this out at your next party.  An ABS crafted, summer ale, that is good to go.  Need we say more?

As homebrewers tired of flimsy beer recipes, ABS began with the idea of designing BIG partial mash beer recipes with character.  You will not find commercial pre-packaged kits here.  We package everything from bulk raw ingredients from our own tested recipes.  Our hops are even weighed and packaged by hand in our special oxygen barrier vacuum bags.  Because we have gone the extra mile in designing our brews, many customers have reported that our recipes will produce beers that are much better than other homebrew store recipes out there, simply because it's freshly packaged and we give you more.  The majority of our recipe packages give between 2-4 pounds of malted grain, and at least 3, sometimes 5 additions of hops.  Additionally, for some recipes, we include our own spice blends, cinnamon sticks, Madagascar vanilla beans, hazelnut and cherry fruit extracts.  Because of this, our recipes produce beers with high gravity, and hop profiles that can meet the requirements of traditional beer style BU/GU ratio guidelines.  In other words, our beers are exceptionally good because they are BIG and well balanced. 

As you might have read in the news, hops and grain have significantly gone up in price.  We have seen an easy 5-fold increase in hop prices and about a 30% increase in grain prices, which has also increased the cost of Dry Malt Extract.  As all homebrew stores, our recipe prices have gone up slightly in response to the current market.  It's simple: the higher the recipe price, the more grain, hops and adjucts = the bigger and better the beer.  We just wanted to inform the public that you will find our pricing competitive, fair and reflective of what you get for your money.   Because of the market price changes, we are now making an effort to focus on lower gravity, well-balanced brews along with our normal big beer recipes.  Also, watch for our monthly sale items, priced at 15% off.  Cheers!

Now . . . Onward . . . Time to start brewing . . .

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ORIGINAL ABS HOMEBREW RECIPE PACKAGES !!!  READY TO GET AWAY FROM THE "JUST ADD WATER KITS"?  READY TO START BREWING COMPETITION QUALITY BEER?  HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.  TRY ONE OF OUR ORIGINAL RECIPES AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.  CLICK HERE 

INTO CLONE BREWS?  TRY OUR ABS CLONE BREW RECIPES.  BREW YOUR FAVORITE COMMERCIAL BEER.   CLICK HERE

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      ABS  HAS  HOPS!

We have sorted out the Hops Crisis, and the word is that WE WILL HAVE HOPS.  There are a lot of hops that we just can't get. For the hops that we can get, we have been allotted a restricted amount at a much higher price, due to an intense supply and demand in the market.  It is what it is, but it isn't going to keep us from homebrewing!  We have a 3 oz. limit per order on our available hops. Why is this happening?  Please read our "In the News" section of this website.  Below is a quick list of what we have in stock until they run out, so get them while you can! Some are at the bottom of the barrel . . .

Amarillo (New), Cascade, Centennial, Challenger, Chinook, Columbus (New), Fuggle, German Hallertauer Tradition (New!), Hallertauer (low), Hallertauer Mittelfruh (low), Kent Golding, Liberty (low), Mount Hood, Nugget, Perle (low), Saaz, Styrian Golding, Tettnanger (low), Willamette.  CLICK HERE FOR PURCHASE

Please see our "Hops Substitution List"  CLICK HERE

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Our starter equipment kit with a recipe package has everything needed to start brewing! CLICK HERE!

Well, Summer is winding down, and Fall time is not far away.  Now is the time to be preparing for your Fall time brewing.  Now would be a good time to brew up a batch of the Autumnic Oktoberfest Marzenbier and let that lager until October.  Also keep in mind that pumpkins are an incredible addition to beer.  Check out both our Carter Mountain Pumpkin Ale and our Stuarts Draft Pumpkin Lager.  We have quite a few beers that we have launched this summer that we are excited about.  If you like stouts and brown ales, you are going to love the Old Schule Munich Dunkel, as this has become one of our favoirite new ABS recipes - there is nothing else out there that compares to this flavor.  It is never a bad time to brew up Kolsch, so try our Gruitherren of Koln's Kolsch. The Cherry Bomb Stout packs a punch, our Rogue Hazelnut Brown Netar clone is killer . . . The list goes on, so check out our Original Recipes section.  We are very excited about the original Full Nelson Pale Ale recipe from our local Blue Mountain Brewery. We have some great new recipes planned for the late Fall and Winter, please see our pipeline section. The 2008 brewing year has been a great one.  We look forward to continue serving you.  Now, don't just sit there! - fire up those burners, time to start brewing . . .

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