My Local Brew Works- Custom Craft Brewing Package

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photo by Max Mester

My Local Brew Works (MLBW), the world’s first custom craft brewery for both event and contract brewing, located in Philadelphia’s industrial-chic Globe Dye Works building, offers an exciting and out-of-the-box holiday gift in their Custom Craft Brewing Package, perfect for beer novices and aficionados alike. Both gift-givers and recipients of the package have the ability to join the MLBW team in brewing their own custom beer with full creative control of beer style, recipe, name, and more.

Whether guests are craft beer connoisseurs or brewing beginners, the MLBW team has decades of experience and knowledge to make custom craft dreams into reality. From choosing the grain to designing the label, participants can be as hands-on or off as desired.

Custom Craft Brewing guests aren’t just brewing beer, but learning about all aspects of the craft, from the shape of pint glass to the flavor of beer’s finish. Those partaking in the full-length Bespoke Brewing Package can expect about a six hour long-experience including the following:

• A pre-brew day consultation on beer theme, style, quantity, and other factors held over the phone or in-person at the brewery
• A tour of Globe Dye Works led by My Local Brew Works
• A tour of the brewery and discussion of hops, grain bill, yeast selection, aroma sampling mashing process, and more, followed by start of brewing
• Catered lunch with beer tastings and samples
• Post-lunch brewing with final hops (and other additives) 
• A celebratory toast with MLBW beer and branded gifts given to all guests

Pricing varies based on a number of factors including volume of beer brewed, fermentation time, ingredients, label design, and catering preferences, but averages at $120 per person.

“The holidays are time of gathering, and we want to bring back that communal aspect to brewing beer,” says Wayne Humphrey, co-founder of MLBW, “No other brewery is letting you add grain or pitch the hops yourself; everything is automized and behind glass. They say it’s the thought that counts, but we think the experience is so much more powerful.”

Those interested in the Custom Craft Brewing Package can contact MLBW for a consultation by emailing beer@mylocalbrewworks.com or visiting www.mylocalbrewworks.com