Beer Making Kits
With their apartment-friendly beer-making kits, Erica Shea and Stephen Valand of the Brooklyn Brew Shop make it easy to craft artisanal beer - right in your own kitchen. Showcasing the finest barley, hops, yeast and spices, your all-natural home-crafted brew will taste as great as the premium artisanal beers served at the best brew pubs. Choose from Everyday IPA, Summer Wheat or Bruxelles Blonde. Step-by-step instructions guide you through every stage: the mash, the sparge, the boil, fermentation and bottling. Includes the specialty equipment and ingredients you'll need for home-brewing, including enough grain, hops and yeast for your first batch. Additional equipment and ingredients required: 6-qt. pot, fine-mesh strainer, funnel, honey and ice. The entire brewing process takes approximately 30 days. Each mix produces 1 gal. beer. Equipment can be reused over and over to make more additional batches of beer. Made in the USA. Choose from the following flavors: Everyday IPA: a pub favorite with bold, hops-intensive flavor. Summer Wheat: a light-bodied ale, gently spiced by American white wheat. Bruxelles Blonde: a light-bodied Belgian Ale with a hint of sweetness. Earthy and spicy.
Average Customer Rating:
(7 Reviews) 7
6 of 7(86%)reviewers would recommend this product to a friend.
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Review 1 for Beer Making Kits
jeffnsar
,Salisbury
,MD
June 29, 2012
Would You Recommend? Yes
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A lot of fun!
June 29, 2012
We have not tasted our "brew" yet as it still has a week and a half to sit before bottling, but it was great fun and fairly easy to do, although somewhat messy and uses a lot of different pans....but hopefully it will be worth it (I don't drink but my husband has a beer once a week, so we hope it will be good!)
Pros: easy and fun
Review 2 for Beer Making Kits
FlamingoGiraffe
,Buffalo
,NY
June 22, 2012
Would You Recommend? No
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High Stress, But Good Results
June 22, 2012
Be advised: This kit is not a good choice if you don't already have several large pots, a strainer with very small holes, a funnel, and some way to bottle the beer. I don't think that swingtop bottles are quite as ubiquitous as the kit instructions make them out to be...I ended up using bottles from French lemonade. However, despite a large amount of sediment ending up in the beer, everyone who has tried it likes it.
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Rolando
Fernley, NV
Posted August 10, 2012
Grolsch
Flamingo - Grolsch is a fairly ubiquitous beer that has a swing top cap; you can also get them from your friendly local home brew shop.
I don't recall if the instructions mention it, but I highly recommend *not* reusing the washers from the bottles. you can get them really cheap (< $10 / 100).
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Review 3 for Beer Making Kits
MrsJohnston
,Jacksonville
,FL
Dallas, TX
April 11, 2012
Would You Recommend? Yes
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GREAT GIFT!
April 11, 2012
Beer is a little harder to make than the kit lets on, but made a great gift for my brother's 23rd birthday. Bought this and a pair of engraved glass beer mugs. Just perfect. The process of making beer takes about a month! Hoping it turns out to be as delicious as they promise!
... there is also a gorgeous glass jug included (that I plan to use for decorating after we've made the beer a few times!)
Review 4 for Beer Making Kits
lissiehoya
,Saint Louis
,MO
March 25, 2012
Ability level:Intermediate
Has owned product for:3 - 6 months
Uses product:Once a year
Would You Recommend? Yes
+2points
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At Least It Made Beer
March 25, 2012
This kit includes almost everything that you need to make beer. One of the things that you really need that we didn't have was a fine mesh strainer, so make sure that you have one of those before you try to make the beer. Ultimately, this kit is not as easy to use as it seems. The beer that we made was... okay... drinkable, but not very good. We're definitely going to try again, but be warned that your first attempt may not turn out so well.
Pros: Quality, Easy to Clean, Easy to Store
Cons: Difficult to Use
Review 5 for Beer Making Kits
cnorlund
,Tacoma
,WA
Tacoma, WA
October 25, 2011
Ability level:Advanced
Has owned product for:1 - 4 weeks
Uses product:A few times a year
Would You Recommend? Yes
+3points
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Everything you need for homemade beer
October 25, 2011
I bought this as a gift for my husband. He is an IPA guy, so got him the IPA kit. He's checking out the online video for detailed instructions and is getting ready to home-brew a batch. Everything needed is in this kit, and to make more beer----one just needs to go get another flavor/packet of the ingredients. All of the equipment can be re-used with new packets of mix each time. So far----it's a good product.
Pros: Quality, Size, fun project
Review 6 for Beer Making Kits
bibble
Boston
June 14, 2011
Ability level:Advanced
Has owned product for:6 - 12 months
Uses product:A few times a year
Would You Recommend? Yes
+11points
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So Good, So Messy!
June 14, 2011
My biggest concern was with the sterilization process. I was worried that if I did't do it correctly it would spoil the beer. I worried for nothing. Pre and Re-read the instructions, watch the video, and have fun. It makes a wet mess so do it somewhere easy to clean.
We used the remaining mash to make chocolate cherry granola clusters that where out of sight. High flavor and high fiber!
When it came time to bottle the beer, I actually decanted it into a sterile pot and then back into the one gallon jug that came with the kit after I cleaned and sterilized it (I used a lid from a growler I bought elsewhere).
My biggest personal issue was with the taste if the beer - I like an extremely hoppy IPA so this was a bit mild for me. It reminded me of a really nice summer wheat - akin Noble Pils.
Pros: Quality
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FanofWSSM
California
Posted September 23, 2011
Hi can you give out your recipe for your chocolate cherry granola clusters I have the mash leftover and would love to use it. Thanks
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Review 7 for Beer Making Kits
zymurgist
Estes Park, CO
June 10, 2011
Ability level:Advanced
Has owned product for:1 - 4 weeks
Uses product:Once a month
Would You Recommend? Yes
+8points
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Quality brewing products
June 10, 2011
This kit uses quality equipment and raw materials (they even have a video and recipes on what to do with the spent mash) ... and using their website for a video showing "how to" that augments their 3 pages of step-by-step instructions so there are few surprises. [Only surprise that they could have helped eliminate was providing information on the "sizes" of pots and strainers needed.] The fermentation is almost at the end of week one, so the final result is still 3 weeks away. Patience Grasshopper.
Cons: Difficult to Clean