As I wrote here in 2016, overall, the approximately $1 billion homebrewing business is taking some heavy hits Fifteen-hundred miles away, Houston’s oldest shop, open since 1971, is closing September 8, citing slow sales. “People spending that much aren’t coming home and making beer.”īut pricey highrises aren’t the only thing sapping the energy from Home Sweet Homebrew, which will shut down its sole location Labor Day weekend. “$2 million condos are going up on the corner,” he says. Hummel chimes in from behind the glass counter where he watches over the grain sacs, rubber hoses, vintage brewery t’s, moving boxes and the one person who enters the shop while I’m there at 4:30 on a Friday less than ten days before the shop closes for good - a delivery man looking for an address.
“If you’re not a restaurant or a dry cleaner or nail salon there’s very little room in the market for small retail.” “The real estate market has changed,” she says, more seriously, of her slice of Center City just west of trendy Rittenhouse Square.
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