NEW VENTUREComing Soon In 2025...
You can keep your bees happy then find all the preserving jars and accessories you need to store the honey, as well as all the equipment you need to make your own homebrew Mead, all in one shop!
Please let us know if there are any particular items regarding this that you would love to see in our shop! Any advice on the subject and best products to stock will be much appreciated!
Welcome to Witches Brew
15 years on and we are now Exeters only Homebrew specialists!
Formerly Cowick Cookware and Homebrew… We have now rebranded to Witches Brew! We are still the same people, same shop, same products and services, just a different name!
Our shop has undergone some big changes in the last few years. Many of our regular customers would have known my dad Ian Kendall who set up the shop in 2009. Sadly last year in April 2023, he suddenly passed away (taking all his knowledge with him!). So I am now running the shop to keep it going for him! My name is Katie, I am still learning everything there is to know about home brewing and will always try to help as much as I can, if I don’t know the answer we can learn together!
We stock everything you need for your hobby including complete Beer and Wine kits, complete brewing set ups for Beer, Wine and Cider, Spirit kits to make your own Vodka, Gin, Whisky etc. We also stock everything from the buckets and demijohns used to brew in, to the barrels and bottles used for storing it. Everything in between includes the steriliser, sugar, a wide range of yeasts, citric acid, grape concentrates, hops, equipment for testing alcohol levels, bottling, corking and so much more!
Recently, we introduced a loyalty card scheme, like a coffee card but for Beer and Wine kits! So every time you buy a Beer, Wine or Cider kit from us you will receive a stamp and be on your way to getting some money off of a kit in the future!
We also stock a wide range of cooking and kitchen items! From kettles and toasters, through a huge range of kitchen gadgets, scales, thermometers and timers, to baking trays and cake tins, jam and preserve equipment as well, you’ll be sure to find what you need! And if we don’t have what you are looking for, we always aim to source it and get it in for you.
Since taking on the shop we have introduced an even more diverse range of stock including plants (lots are home grown), gift items and Homewares.
We are currently open 4 days a week until 2pm (4pm on Saturdays) as we have 3 children at home to juggle! However we are planning on extending our opening hours in the near future.
We hope to see you down here for all your homebrewing and kitchen needs and you are always welcome to pop in and say hi!
Have a lovely day.
Homebrew
We stock all the equipment you need to make your brew from various brewing and fermenting vessels, Beer, Wine and Cider kits, specific yeasts, nutrients and sugars, sterilisers, mashing and straining bags, funnels and jugs, Syphons and tubing, thermometers and hydrometers, heat mats and belts, beer cappers and hand corkers and so much more!Co2 Cylinders & Soda Stream Canisters
We also stock Co2 cylinders to charge up your pressure barrels. You can purchase them brand new or bring back your empty canister for a refill at a discounted rate! The same goes for Soda Stream Canisters, we have brand new to purchase or bring back your empty one for a refill at a discounted rate!
Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages for regular product updates or come down and see us!
Kitchen Essentials
We stock a huge range of cooking and kitchen items including an impressive range of kitchen gadgets, baking and cake tins, steamers and stockpots, pots and pans, utensils and sieves, kettle and toasters, teapots and cake stands, scales and timers and not forgetting our jam and preserving section! Jars, bottles, labels, muslin and cheese cloths, wax discs and seals and much, much more!
Gift Vouchers & Loyalty Cards
We now have Gift Vouchers available! An ideal present for anyone looking to start brewing or anyone who loves cooking! Available in store now! Recently, we also introduced a loyalty card scheme, like a coffee card but for Beer and Wine kits! So every time you buy a Beer, Wine or Cider kit from us you will receive a stamp and be on your way to getting some money off of a kit in the future!
Contact Us
If you are looking for a specific item, don’t hesitate to contact us as if we don’t have it in stock, we will always look into getting it in for you.With excellent quality products and knowledge and experience thrown in as standard, can you afford to shop elsewhere?
Witches Brew
43 COWICK ST
ST THOMAS
EXETER
EX4 1AP
07305 811082
info@homebrewexeter.co.uk
Opening Times
Tuesday: 10AM – 2PM
Wednesday: 10AM – 2PM
Thursday: 10AM – 2PM
Friday: 10AM – 2PM
Saturday: 10AM – 4PM
Please Note
We will be closing the shop on the following dates next year:
Friday 11th April 2025: CLOSED
Friday 16th May 2025: CLOSED
Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.
Send us a message
🩷🐙 This Gorgeous Girl has adopted a lovely hippy/boho/spring/easter vibe with her gorgeous headband & bouquet of flowers! 💐 she’s sooooooo cute!🩷😍🐙
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😍 How did you find us?! Were you already an existing customer or did you come across us online? Let us know in the comments! 😘
💁🏽♀️Needing more of an idea of what we stock before you come & visit us? No problem!..
We appreciate its hard for our customers to have an overall idea of exactly what we sell because we don’t have an online store.. but then that’s the fun of physically exploring a new shop! 😉
However there are times when you need a general idea to see all the great products we have in store waiting for you! Making that expedition even more thrilling!
So… slowly but surely we are uploading our most standard & popular products to our highlights so it’s ever so easy for you to flick through & see our fantastic collections!
Have a flick through now if you have 5 mins so you can get an idea.. & keep checking back for further uploads as we have an ever changing array of great products & supplies!
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🌿 Only 4 of these babies left!!!🪴 This is The Marble Queen Pothos.. these are home grown cuttings which I have propagated myself from my gorgeous huge parent plant! 🌱 I won’t have any more of these ready for a few months so don’t miss out! 🪴
✨ Pop down & see us in Cowick Street 😍✨
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😱 To put it in layman’s terms.. the Hydrometer is just measuring the sugar content in the liquid… which then on the hydrometer.. is telling you the potential alcohol you will make when the brew is finished fermenting. That’s all it is.
It must however be used just before you add the yeast or immediately after adding the yeast… as the yeast will start to eat the sugar then producing alcohol. So you won’t get an accurate reading if you measure it too late after adding the yeast!
When your brew is finished fermenting, or should be close to finishing, you measure the liquid again, the reading should be much lower if near to finishing if not at 0 when it is finished. This means you have made the original potential alcohol level you recorded at the beginning.
This will give you the most accurate alcohol percentage so you know how drunk you will get! If it’s high…. Ask your mate to try that! 🤯
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🌿 Peace Lily’s Now Available!!! 🪴 I absolutely love these plants! They are very good for your space as they help purify the air - known as the drama queen of the plant world for their dramatic way of telling you they suddenly need a drink! You will see them fine one day and flopped the next but a drink later & they are right as rain! 🩷
✨ Pop down & see us in Cowick Street 😍✨
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5 of my primary used items in my kitchen! All of these goodies can be found in my shop as standard..
Butter dishes.. check ✅
Mini storage jars.. check ✅
Milk jugs.. check ✅
Cheese graters.. check ✅
Scales.. check ✅
What are your top 5 most used items? I of course also constantly have the kettle on that’s why it couldn’t be pictured here as it was too busy boiling itself 😂
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🌿🪴 My beloved plants are back at the shop! 🌱🪴
🌿 As you may already know, I grow a lot of the plants in the shop myself! I plant seeds & take cuttings from my (cough) little collection at home.. 🏡
🌿 I stock houseplants as well as garden plants, also fruit & veg bearing plants! The unusual is usual here too! 🍓🍒🍇🍉🍎🍆🍐🥝
🌿 I have quite a few rare house plants too which I have managed to collect over the years & you don’t see them around very much if at at all, & they charge heaps for them on the internet! So I’m bringing them to Cowick Street to make my shops collection a little more interesting! So be on the look out for anything unusual- it may just be a rare one! ✨
🌿 Please always come in & ask advice on anything you see outside the shop if you’re unsure of what it is or how to grow it.. Im always very keen to tell ya! 😍🌿✨
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💁🏽♀️Needing more of an idea of what we stock before you come & visit us? No problem!..
We appreciate its hard for our customers to have an overall idea of exactly what we sell because we don’t have an online store.. but then that’s the fun of physically exploring a new shop! 😉
However there are times when you need a general idea to see all the great products we have in store waiting for you! Making that expedition even more thrilling!
So… slowly but surely we are uploading our most standard & popular products to our highlights so it’s ever so easy for you to flick through & see our fantastic collections!
Have a flick through now if you have 5 mins so you can get an idea.. & keep checking back for further uploads as we have an ever changing array of great products & supplies!
#witchesbrew
#homebrew
#homebrewbeer
#homebrewersassociation
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