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We stock all the equipment you need to make your own beer or wine. Complete beermaking and winemaking equipment kits, Party Pigs and more for the novice to expert brewer. We have everything in stock to make wort chillers, keg conversions, and to remanufacture corny kegs. We employ a stainless steel welding specialist for your special welding needs. Of course we also stock Fermentech gadgets, and siphon starters, stainless steel plumbing parts and valves, and much more.
Because we are a homebrew shop located inside of a hardware store it's quite natural that we are slightly crazy about making brewing gadgets. If you are too, make sure you come and visit us with your best gadget ideas. We probably have what it takes to put it all together!
Karp’s Basic Kit
All the equipment you need to start brewing your own beer at home. With this kit and the purchase of any homebrew ingredient kit you can make five gallon batches of beer in your own kitchen.
Includes:
Karp’s Advanced Kit
Optional Equipment:
Check out the Party Pig Frequently Asked Questions
Includes two pigs, four pig pouches, one activation pump, and a bottle filling support. Two pigs hold about the same amount of homebrew as 48 bottles.
One Lone PigJust a pig and two pouches. Holds 2.25 gallons of homebrew.
Spare Pig PouchesPressure pouches are the 'heart' of your pig. They maintain constant pressure inside your pig. Your homebrewed beer stays fresh and can be dispensed over a period of weeks without losing carbonation. Each time you fill your pig, you'll need another pouch.
Pig HolderKeeps your pig standing up straight so you can feed (fill) it.
Pig StickerYou'll just need one activation pump no matter how many pigs you have.
Well Dressed Pig
The Pig Parka keeps your brew cold when you take your pig out for a stroll to the neighbors. For the pig who has everything, zip-up parka is a great looking and practical accessory.
Styrofoam Pig Cooler
Porcine HealthWe always have replacement parts in stock to keep your pigs healthy. These very durable pigs rarely need any maintenance, but it's nice to know that veterinary assistance is available.
Wort Chiller
Regular Size for 5 to 7 gallon batches, 20 ft. copper coil5
Vinyl tubing leads with a female hose connection on one end. Fits slop-sinks or garden hose spigots, can be connected to most kitchen sinks with an adapter.
Jumbo Wort Chiller
Jumbo Size for 8 to 15 gallons, 70 ft. copper coil
Vinyl tubing leads with a female hose connection on one end. Fits slop-sinks or garden hose spigots, can be connected to most kitchen sinks with an adapter.
The BeerGun, from Blichmann Engineering, is the better bottle filling system for keg users. Sometimes brewers need to bottle a few to go, or to enter into competitions, and the BeerGun is the best way to do that. The BeerGun was designed to make cumbersome counter-pressure fillers obsolete.
The BeerGun's benefits:
BeerGun accessory pack, includes all the fittings and tubing required for hookup to your CO2 kegging system.
Counter pressure bottle filler, best quality Foxx filler. Three ball valves and stainless fill tube. Better than the less expensive needle valve fillers, ball valve fillers are easier to use.
Brass Bottle washers, If we didn't have these at home we wouldn't homebrew. Just like having a small pressure washer in your sink. Saves 90% of the water required to wash bottles with only a kitchen faucet. Standard
Bottle Tree, Hang your wet sanitized bottles to dry on our bottle tree. Spinning rack holds 80 bottles at a time. Keeps the clutter of bottling to a minimum. Comes apart for easy cleaning.
Solid Stainless Spoon, 21 inches long
Label Paper, Our computer labels allow you to make your own bottle labels on any graphics program. Unlike Avery style labels they will soak off easily. Works with dot or bubble jet printers. Not for laser printers. Pack of 18 sheets
Five Star Homebrewer's Cleaning Kits. Serious Sanitizers, for serious homebrewers. Formerly sold only to breweries, the complete Five Star cleaning program is now available for homebrewers. The kit includes enough cleaner and sanitizer for at least eight brew sessions. Introductory price
PBW - Powdered Brewery Wash, same product used by breweries.
Star San Acid Sanitizer, the Five Star brand sanitizer alone (without the cleaner).
Cleaning and Sanitizing Chemicals
King Kooker Propane Burner
Karp's Special King Kooker with an extra large ring to support a boiling pot made from converted keg. You can't get these burners in the department stores. Made by Metal Fusion in the U.S. for homebrewing. If you want to boil your wort outdoors, you need one of these babies! Tremendous quality burners, strong enough to stand on [except you might burn your shoes]. You can boil five to ten gallons of wort with these units. Complete with an adjustable high pressure regulator and hose. This is the absolute best propane unit we have ever seen.
Please, only use this propane cooker outdoors. It is never safe for indoor use. Propane is dangerous indoors. No amount of venting will make these units safe for indoor use.
Carboys and Carboy AccessoriesAs you will see, glass carboys have increased in price dramatically. The only manufacturer of glass carboys in North America has stopped making them, so now they will have to come from Italy.
We strongly recommend using plastic carboys in place of the glass carboys. You will find them to be more durable than glass and much less expensive. You will not experience off-flavors from plastic carboys. Some old brewing books advise against using plastic, and when these books were written they might have been accurate, but now we have food grade plastics available that do not impart any flavors at all.
Please note: UPS does not insure Glass Carboys against breakage. In most cases, we will not ship glass carboys to addresses more than 50 miles away from us.
Brew Hauler, Wrap around nylon straps with a handle for moving or lifting your full carboys. If you use a carboy[s] you need one of these. They fit snug around the middle of the carboy, you lift the weight of the carboy without danger of breaking off the neck. Fits both 5 and 6 gallon size
The best tap available. Made in Germany. Uses carbon dioxide cartridges to dispense your homebrew from 1.25 gallon kegs. Keeps your homebrew fresh for up to two weeks after tapping. Using mini kegs means less time spent bottling, no bottles to clean afterward, and kegs take up less room in the fridge. Five gallons of homebrew fill four mini kegs perfectly.
Replacement kegs and extra CO2 cartridges are available.
Some notes about mini kegging:
The party star tap is a terrific gadget made with durability in mind. It should last many years. The mini kegs are refillable at least 6 or 7 times. Some brewers get a dozen or more fills from each one. Prime your beer for mini kegs with about 60% of the priming sugar you would use for bottling. You can fill some bottles and one or two mini kegs from the same batch of homebrew. Mini kegs are popular because they fit in the fridge!
Mini kegs travel well. Wrap some bubble wrap around a chilled keg. Over wrap with a hand towel. Go to your friend's house, tap your brew. Become a legend.
Click here for Complete Mini Kegging Instructions
Homebrew Kegging System includes; One double regulator. Cobra tap, (a.k.a. squeeze faucet). All necessary tubing and fittings to set up and dispense your homebrew. This system includes a new 5-lb. CO2 cylinder. This system can be set-up inside a fridge at home, or you can take it from party to party!
We cannot ship CO2 cylinders filled with gas. You can get it filled at the closest welding supply shop or fire extinguisher store, check your local yellow pages. Filling the CO2 tank locally should cost about $10.00.
Homebrew Keg Refrigeration Kit Ball or Pin lock. This kit includes everything you need to set up your corny keg for use inside a refrigerator, and dispense your homebrew beer through the refrigerator door. Dual Gauge regulator, CO2 tubing, Stainless faucet and shank for through the door mounting. Gas and Liquid disconnects, beer line, hose clamps, drip tray and instructions. This makes your beer fridge into a professional dispensing unit. You 'pull' a pint without having to open the fridge door!
Replacement and Repair Parts
We stock everything you need to make your beer flow. All stainless and brass hardware, gaskets, o-rings, washers, nuts, nipples, dip tubes and all beer related paraphernalia. Call or email us.
Super Picnic Pump - Sankey Tap with picnic pump. Dispenses beer from Sankey style keg with a easy hand pumping action. No CO2 required. Includes beer line and cobra faucet.
Complete Beer Line Cleaning Kit - Pump action cleaning of your beer tap lines. If you haven’t cleaned your lines in a while, consider getting and using this kit. All the cleaning solution, tools and brushes you need to properly clean your beer lines. Plastic pump bottle forces cleaning solution through tap lines resulting in better tasting beer.
Jockey Boxes - 48 quart coolers with stainless coils for making your beer cold at the tap. Any size or set up available. We will make one to your specs.
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