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| - For our xmas gifts to each other, we set aside cash for homebrew supplies - knowing that this is where we'd spend the money.
Alternative Beverage used to be off South Blvd before the train happened - now, they're in an unassuming industrial space directly behind Sleepy Poet. Climb the steps, walk in, and you're in a warehouse full of everything you'd ever need to distill your own beer or wine. Kits for the inexperienced, barley etc by weight for those with the know, fruit concentrates, huge pots, carboys of several sizes, bottles of varying design, tubes, hydrometers, fridge of yeast and other fragilities, all sorts of fermentable insanity as far as the eye can see. Think Beer Brewing Mad Scientist's Secret Lair. They were a tad swamped on Saturday with only one dude working the register and the kid helping us and everyone else with questions, but they handled our confusion professionally and were obviously stoked to be selling us brewing equipment.
We ended up walking away with almost everything (the deluxe kit did not include a funnel, which we thought was odd) we need for less than we had saved, which was a rad surprise. They have a larger warehouse in Belmont but dude #2 told us that they have almost everything in the Charlotte store that "that guy out there can get".
Soon enough, we'll be able to Relax, Don't Worry, and Have a Homebrew of our own, thanks in no small part to Alternative. Awesome!
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