Brooklyn Brew Shop Everyday IPA Glass Beer Making Kit, 1 Count (Pack of 1)

I received this kit as a gift after mentioning that I wanted to try "real" brewing. I had previously used a malt-extract kit which was fun and worked well, but felt like a "play version" of brewing beer. I think you need to be prepared for the time this kind of brewing takes. I've read some of the negative reviews and I really think that this is an easy process but it takes time. "Brew Day" should be fun, so grab a few beers, print the instructions (better yet, watch the videos they created on …their website) and have fun with it. The WORST part about brewing in general is the waiting. Waiting two weeks for fermentation is a tease and if you bottle-carbonate (like with this kit) it takes another two weeks of waiting. That's the worst part, but once you get into it, you can order more grain kits and get on a rotation so that every week you are popping open a new bottle of freshly made homebrew! My daughter and I had a great time doing this together and can't wait to try the first batch. Ordered the Wheat kit so that once we bottle next week, we can get another batch going! Love this!

fue un excelente regalo, facil de preparar y buenas instrucciones.

Great kit- supplementing the written instructions with their website videos makes it all very easy.

I bought this for my husband for Christmas one year! It took 2 years for him to make it! It was fun and exciting to watch the process. He drank it with his dad and they both loved it. That says a lot for two European men who enjoy beer!

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This kit has everything you need to brew your own beer! Great gift idea for the craft beer drinker in your life.If you have any questions or concern just contact the seller, Brooklyn brewery, they respond quickly and are there to help.Will buy more products from them!

I got this as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend and I really like this turned into an activity for the both of us to do. He enjoyed the whole process. The instructions are really easy to follow. This is definitely a day activity though. We start at around 7 and didn’t finish till midnight. Overall a great gift to give to any man in your life. Will buy again!

This is probably the best gifting item ever. Gift a person a beer and he'll drink for a day, gift him a beer making kit he'll drink for the lifetime.The person who was gifted this is obsessed with it and has gotten full time into brewing.This kit is self sufficient and is the perfect starter kit for brewing at home. The instructions are very clear and concise and it's an enjoyable experience overall.

Super easy to use for first timers.

Back in college, seemingly all my friends had Mr. Beer kits. And when you come of age in a big craft-beer town, the results were a disappointment, but the process always interested me. Problem was (and still is, in my tiny and overstocked kitchen) is getting started with all-grain, but smaller than 5 gallons—that's not just a lot of bottles, its a lot of big pots, buckets, and everything upstream to store. I just didn't think something quality in tiny batches could be done.I spotted this kit so…me time ago at my local drugstore of all places, marked down to $4. I couldn't *not* buy it. Plus, the packaging looked spiffy and inspired a bit more confidence than your other cheapie mass-market kits.What you get isn't much: a plain gallon jug, racking cane and tubing, airlock and cap, and ingredients kit. The package says all you need is a pot, strainer and bottles, but that's a bit of an oversimplification. As others here stated, you really need several large-ish pots: one each for steeping the mash, straining into/boiling, and heating sparge water, respectively. You probably have these. I didn't, and borrowed a few. It's not really a one-pot process (unless you go with brew-in-a-bag, but I'm getting ahead of myself here)Also highly recommended, both by BBS and myself: a bottling wand and an auto-siphon (about $10 total here or at a home-brew shop), else bottling day will be a big mess. On that note, I spent a little extra and bought a case of 500ml flip-top bottles; a more experienced friend told me the handheld bottle cappers are a tremendous pain, and I don't have the room for a bench-top model.So for $50 MSRP, that's a bit steep, when homebrew-shop starter kits like Northern Brewer and Brewers Best are everything you need in one box for not much more, hence my caveat to look for it on sale. But it is a testament to how homebrewing can be done with minimal equipment and maximum enjoyment—it's a bit zen knowing I'm making great brew with a couple of pots and jugs that rival my friend's garage setup.You can grow with this kit (I have), or piece your own together and buy just the mixes. Much better than a crappy plastic Mr. Beer tank.The process is pretty straightforward. Steep your grains, strain them out, boil with hops, ferment for a few weeks. Their online instructions are sufficient, but I highly recommend reading GallonBrewing.com and TheKitchn's Brew School.So how does it taste? Pretty damn good. The ingredient kits aren't extract mixes but full grain, and that makes a world of difference over pouring brown liquid into water and letting it sit. Everything is pre-milled, measured and mixed for you. Grain brewing is a little messier and more involved, but it's worthwhile. I have a few friends who are commercial brewmasters and I was a bit hesitant to say I got started from a kit bought at the drugstore, but when I mentioned BBS, they were impressed—they're well-known in the industry and lauded for making all-grain brewing easy for beginners. Their mix kits span a good breadth of styles and collaborations with microbreweries. It'll take you a while to get bored of their releases.So far, I've gone through a few batches with great success, and upgraded my kit just enough to make things easier and more consistent, but I have no intention or need to bump up to 5gal batches in the near future. I'm now on to buying recipe ingredients from scratch at the local shop for a fraction of the cost, but I'll keep buying the ingredient mixes—they're really nice to have around for throwing something together on a whim.