NEW PRODUCTS   Annual Membership dues of $35 10% discount on all certified organic brewing ingredients green coffee, and liquid yeast plus 15% off Organic Beer Kits. Purchase a membership in our online store or go here for more info. 7 Bridges Organic Cotton T-Shirts Show your enthusiasm for organic homebrew with our new organic cotton logo T-shirts. Available in natural (unbleached) white and soft black. These shirts are printed with advanced environmentally friendly dyes. The advantage to this process is the image becomes part of the fabric instead of a solid layer of plastic ink that floats on the surface and becomes faded and cracked after repeated washings. Our shirts will not become faded and cracked, and the manufacture of these shirts is done in an environmentally safe sweatshop-free process right here in the USA. The fabric is so incredibly soft that we expect it will become one of your favorite shirts. The shirts run small, and they are pre-shrunk. Order a size larger than you usually buy pre-shrunk T-shirts, and the fit should be just right. Men's: Natural White: S- XL $18 XXL $19 Men's: Soft Black: S- XL $19 XXL $20 Ladies: Natural White: S- XL $19 Ladies: Soft Black: S- XL $20   New! Colombia Pipinta (Fair Trade) Shade grown, certified organic, and Fair Trade. A smooth and rich coffee with hints of nuts and chocolate, the Pipinta is another fine coffee produced by Cooperativa de Caficultores de Aguadas Pipinta in the northwest mountains of Colombia. Faithful to the reputation of Colombia for high quality coffee, these beans deliver a satisfying cup that is smooth and lightly sweet with a clean almond nut flavor and light apple and pear fruit aromas. Medium body and acidity for a very balanced cup. Fair Trade pricing have given the farmer members of the Pipinta cooperative funding for their children's education through scholarships plus improved growing and processing resources. The cooperative also gives its members access to better health services, and promotes crop diversity so coffee growers can be more self sustaining. Recommended roast: medium to espresso. New! Costa Rica Montes de Oro (Fair Trade) Shade grown, certified organic, and Fair Trade. From the lush highlands of Costa Rica comes Montes de Oro, a coffee of outstanding quality and rich flavor produced by COOCAFE (Consorcio de Cooperativas de Caficultores de Guanacaste y Montes). The coffee is handpicked and sundried or dried in solar ovens. Montes de Oro is an aromatic full bodied coffee with a honey/raw sugar sweetness with hints of clean milk chocolate. With a lush fruity acidity this is a well balanced coffee that finishes with a smooth lingering cocoa aftertaste. COOCAFE represents more than 3,500 small coffee producers throughout Costa Rica and promotes environmentally friendly growing practices such as the use of shade trees and organic fertilizers. The small families who are members of COOCAFE have seen dramatic improvements in thier lives since becoming Fair Trade certified, especially in the ability to provide a better education for their children. Ensuring a better future for younger generations is the true mountain of gold that is in part made possible through the production of this coffee. The coffee beans are shade grown Typica, and Caturra. It can take a wide range of roasts, but for best results we recommend a medium to French roast. New! Honduras Lempira (Fair Trade) Shade grown, certified organic, and Fair Trade. The Lempira is the currency of Honduras, and also a coffee region producing excellent beans. Poverty is a huge problem for many rural farmers in Honduras. Fair Trade pricing helps put food on the table and brings needed resources to the coffee growing communities for equipment and infrastructure which in turn has really helped improve the quality of coffees from Honduras. Grown at elevations between 1500 and 2000 meters the Lempira coffee is clean and tasty with low acidity and a very mild finish. A good coffee for a lighter roast because it has some nice light apple fruity notes with a chocolate caramel finish. Coffee tree varieties are Catuai, Caturra, Typica, and Bourbon. The Honduras Lempira is also a great blender. With its low acidity it can help mellow a blend that comes in too bitter and acidic. We like a light to medium roast as a single origin cup, but will do nicely in blends with a darker roast. New! Sulawesi Toraja (Fair Trade) Shade grown and also Rainforest Alliance certified. From the Tana Toraja highlands region in the Sesean mountains on the remote southern peninsula of the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi comes a very special coffee that is really outstanding in a darker roast. Formerly known as Celebes Kalossi, the Sulawesi Toraja is an intense and complex coffee that has low acidity and a heavy body. The full bodied rich and syrupy Toraja has deep plum flavors, accentuated with spice aromas and an sweet earthy aftertaste that lingers on the tongue. The newly established Petani Kopi Organik Toraja Cooperative consists of 780 small-holders, with each coffee "garden" averaging 1 to 1.5 hectares in size. These families have been growing their coffee organically and with great care for many years, and recently became Fair Trade certified to improve their livelihoods. Every jute bag of this coffee is marked with the symbol for the sun, "Bariallo" in the Torajan language, which represents good health, luck and prosperity. We recommend a Full City to an espresso roast. New Organic Hop Arrivals Our shipment from Europe recently arrived at our warehouse making our organic hop selection bigger and fresher than ever! If you have been brewing organic for years, you know there has never been as wide a selection of organic hops than we offer you here right now. The possibilities for great new organic beers are bigger than ever! NEW CROP WHOLE HOPS: German Organic Spalt Select German Spalt Select: 5% Ave. Alpha. Spalt Select is a refined European hop with a mildly spicy aroma similar to European Saaz, Tettnanger, or Mittlefrueh. Bred from Mittlefrueh and Spalt hops in the early 90's to be more resistant to pests and diasease. A hop suitable for bittering, flavor, and aroma, it is excellent in European ales and lagers, with a pleasant spicy flavor and strong aroma. A good substitute for Tettnanger, Mittlefrueh, US Saaz, Hersbrucker.   New Crop Organic Pellet Hops: German Opal: 7% Ave. Alpha. Opal is a European jewel which has a sweet spice, slightly peppery aroma and flavor combined with a light clean citrus fruit aroma. We think this hop will do well in German wheat beers, summer ales, Helles, light European lagers, light ales, Saisons, and Belgian wit. A good substitute for East Kent Goldings, Styrian Goldings, or Tettnanger. Belgium Admiral: 14% Avg. Alpha. Offers both high alpha acid for bittering and a strong hoppy aroma. The aroma is an astonishingly strong fruity and sweet aroma perfect for hoppy ales. Admiral gives a citrusy sweet flavor with hints of apricot and orange to most brews which is well suited to hoppy beers especially IPA. This is the hop to use for beers wanting a strong hop nose and a well rounded bitterness. Very good in recipes calling for Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Challenger, or Chinook. Belgium Challenger: 8% Ave. Alpha. Recognized as a dual purpose hop because it has a respectable alpha acid level combined with a good hop aroma. Originally bred from Northern Brewer rootstock in the late sixties, this hop has become a staple for many English breweries, and is at its best in styles such as ESB, porter, stout, barley wine, and brown ale. The aroma is strong with refined spicy notes. A good substitute for Northern Brewer or Perle hops. Fuggles: 4% Ave. Alpha. Fuggles have long been used in the finest English style ales for aroma and flavor, and will infuse a mild hoppy flavor and pleasant aroma in the best pale ales, bitters, and browns. The light bitterness and clean hop flavor and aroma make a good combination with high alpha hops such as Target or Pacific Gem. U.K. rootstock grown in Belgium. A good substitute for Willamette or Styrian Golding. NEW! Aeropress Coffee Maker: $29.90 We have discovered a new way to make great tasting coffee fast, and we're hooked. The Aero Press was developed by Aerobie, a company local to our area that is well known for the ring shaped frisbees they also make. It is notable that the press is entirely manufactured here in the USA. Although similar in appearance to a French press, there are some key variations in the way coffee is brewed with the Aeropress that make the resulting coffee much different. The Aeropress has two main parts, the outer chamber with the filter on the bottom, and the inner plunger with a thick rubber gasket which provides a snug, airtight seal. This forces air through the wet coffee grounds which results in a fast extraction time. Because the grounds need only a very short contact time with hot water less bitter compounds are released from the coffee. The result is a very smooth tasting cup of coffee with measurably lower acidity. The Areopress uses paper filters which eliminates the grit which is usually produced with a French press. The high temperature polycarbonate and polypropelene plastics used to make the Aeropress are FDA approved for cooking at boiling temperatures. The filters are cheap, oxygen bleached, and compostable. A package of 350 filters and a zippered nylon carry sack are included in the purchase price. Additional filters sold separately. Aeropress #COFFAC10: $29.90 We have provided a link below to the Weyermann website. If you were a fan of the Weyermann Vienna malt and would like to urge them to market organic Vienna malt here in the US that is USDA compliant (and thus legal for us to sell and for certified organic breweries to use in their beers), please write them a note. Your comments could make a difference! Weyermann website guestbook: Post your comments!   New! Vienna Style Malt Blend Organic Vienna Style Malt Blend: 5-6 oL. This is a 50/50 Blend of Weyermann Pilsner and Gambrinus Munich malt which creates a malt profile almost identical to Vienna malt. Use a few pounds to add increased golden color and rich malt flavor, or use as a base malt for recipes which call for Vienna malt. We are offering this blend in response to the many requests of our customers to stock Vienna malt. Currently, there are no organic Vienna malts available that are USDA certified organic. The Weyermann Vienna malt we previously offered had to be discontinued because the organic certificate was not in compliance with USDA NOP standards, thus was not legal for us to sell with an organic label in the USA. NEW! Organic Fair Trade Vanilla Extract: The easy way to add Vanilla If using vanilla beans sounds a little too complicated, using a top grade vanilla extract is the easiest way to add vanilla flavor to your brews. Our extract is made from gourmet bourbon vanilla beans, grown in India by farmers who were paid a Fair Trade premium price, giving them the means for a better life. The rich, smooth, and uplifting flavor of vanilla is a great addition to organic Porter, Bourbon barrel Porter, Belgian and fruit beers, and honey meads. Vanilla has been known through the ages as an aphrodesiac, but also has the health benefits of being a soothing and relaxing antidepressant. Tests have shown it to have antioxident and anticarcinogenic properties. Adding vanilla extract to beer or mead is easy, just add 1- 2 oz to 5 gallons at bottling time. If you want just a few bottles of flavored brew, you can add just a few drops to taste to each bottle, or even add after pouring a pint. For a great vanilla coffee, add a few drops to your cup and enjoy! 2 fl oz. bottle #OFLAV3 $5.90 NEW! Organic Fruit Flavors for Beer and Soda: After many years of searching, we have finally found fruit flavors made with organic and all natural ingredients that we are excited to offer our customers. The organic Cherry and Blackberry flavors are highly concentrated so just a small amount is needed to give a yummy fruit aroma and distinctive flavor to your next brew. They will not add any color because they are so highly concentrated. Try a blackberry stout, or a cherry wheat, or a cherry porter. Adding the flavor to beer or mead is so easy to do, just add 1- 2 oz to 5 gallons at bottling time. If you want just a few bottles of flavored brew, you can add just a few drops to taste to each bottle, or even add after pouring a pint. Organic Blackberry Flavor, 2 fl. oz. $5.90 #OFLAV1 Organic Cherry Flavor, 2 fl. oz. $5.90 #OFLAV2 Open Fireplace Popper For Campfire or BBQ Roasting Like hands-on projects? Get started roasting your own coffee for a very small investment. The new Whirly-pop open fire popper is an easy way to roast coffee over a barbeque or open fire. Roasting over a fire or barbeque takes a little extra patience, but the process is fun an the rewards are fresh roasted beans for a very small investment. This popper has a collapsing telescoping handle and a hanging loop for easy storage. For a summary of how to roast with a whirley-pop, visit our how-to page (link below). We also highly recommend that you purchase (or borrow) the book Home Coffee Roasting, which we also sell. Includes our basic roasting guide and one pound of organic green coffee beans (your choice from our current selection except for decaf). Open Fireplace Popper: #COFF8 $34.90 NEW! "Home-Brewed" STARR Brand Bottle Opener: This is the must have bottle opener for every serious homebrew serving area! Proudly tell your friends and family that your beer is Home Brewed! Every well stocked bar needs one of these openers. Simple to mount on any wall or bench, installation just requires 2 screws (included). Regular price $7.50 each. #BBO2b wywywy Special Seasonal Yeast Strains: White Labs Platinum Series: We stock all of the special strains offered by White Labs on a seasonal basis. Every 2 months, 3 new and unique strains are available. Visit the link to the left to see what is available right now or click here. You can also visit the White Labs website to see what platinum strains are offered throughout the year. Wyeast Private Collection: Wyeast has been collecting yeast strains for over 20 years, and many of the yeast strains in the archives are only available as a special release offered as part of the private collection. The Private Collection features strains from the archives, new strains as they become available, and even occasionally Proprietary Strains from craft brewery partners such as Rogue Ales Pacman™ Ale yeast and Flying Dog Ale yeast. Each Private Collection runs for 3 months and offers 2 or 3 yeast strains, which may not become available to homebrewers again for a very long time! Visit the link to the left to see what is available right now or click here. You can also visit the Wyeast website to see what platinum strains are offered throughout the year.

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