Homebrew Store

Beverage Artisan
Menomonie's Homebrew, Winemaking & Fermenting Store

310 Wilson Ave W, Menomonie, WI 54751

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A Small Space, A Lot of Choices

At the edge of Menomonie, Beverage Artisan is a hidden treasure for home fermenters. The small store, established in 2011, offers a curated selection of essential wine, beer, cider, mead, distilling, and kombucha supplies. Choose from the beer and wine kits, select grains, fermenting hardware, bottles, and a variety of dry fermenting yeasts.

Whether you're just starting with lots of questions or are a seasoned brewer, vintner, distiller, kombucha maker, mead maker, or food fermenter, Beverage Artisan has the things you need to craft your favorite beverages and food. With a commitment to quality and a passion for the craft, the store provides not just supplies but also the knowledge and support to help you make the perfect batch every time. Discover the joys of home fermentation at Beverage Artisan.

The owner, Doug, is a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Navy (1971-1975). He is also a retired teacher and has over 40+ years of fermenting knowledge.

We do not/cannot compete with online stores. These stores order and carry pallets of items they buy at volume, and then store everything in warehouses. They advertise discount prices, all the while charging the buyer for shipping those products in to their warehouses and out for delivery to you. We DO sell in a small brick and mortar storefront, with a finite inventory, at fair prices, with set hours, and we provide the assistance you cannot get from those online sellers.

We can, on occasion, special order products that we do not have in stock. However, we will now ask for pre-payment. The order will be made when the store makes its monthly order from one of our distributors. Patience is key.

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Fermenting Hardware & Storage

You can't ferment without the correct hardware. We carry carboys, pails, air locks, tubing, and more for almost all types of fermenting - beverages to foods.

Likewise, you need storage containers to hold and serve your beverages. The store carries bottles, corks, flip-tops, and caps for many of the most popular containers. We carry a small supply of glass carboys, but encourage fermentors to use PET vessels as they are not the volatile plastics of yesteryear.

Un-milled & Flaked Grains

We carry a variety of pre-packaged brewing and distilling grains. Many of these are in 1, 10, and 50/55 pound bags. Customers may use our small mill to crush the whole grains they purchase in the store, but are encouraged to use their own mills to be able to adjust to a desired crush size - we do not allow adjustment of our mill, or to mill grains not purchased in our store.

Packaged Yeast & Hops

We only carry DRY yeast for beer, wine, mead, and distilling. There are many more varieties of dry yeast than when you or your parents started fermenting. Additionally, dry yeast can be stored for longer periods, like years if the dry yeast is kept cold and dry - unlike liquid yeasts.

Hop varieties are numerous, with new varieties being added every year. Beverage Artisan carries the varieties that are most requested in our area for brewing. Other varieties and larger quantities are sometimes available for order.