Northern Brewer - Siphonless 1 Gallon Craft Beer Making Starter Kit, Equipment and Beer Recipe Kit (Caribou Slobber Brown Ale)

I bought this kit to start doing beer in US. We were very impressed with the quality of the equipment and ingredients, and the instructions were clear and easy to follow. The siphonless fermenter was a nice feature that made transferring and bottling much easier. We enjoyed sharing our homemade brew with our friends and family.Pros:- Siphonless fermenter reduces tools and complexity- Glass fermenter allows you to see the fermentation process- High-quality ingredients and equipment- Easy to foll…ow instructions- Variety of recipe kits availableCons:- You need to buy bottles separately- You need a 2-gallon kettle for brewing- One gallon batch may not be enough for some beer lovers

How many of us started with a kit like this? This was a Christmas gift a few years back that amounted to a very enjoyable hobby and trust me you will advance to other kits. The folks at Northern Brewer are very knowledgeable in this field, If you can make Mac & Cheese you can brew good beer from this kit

I bought this with some trepidation about whether I could really make beer that was good. I've cooked for years and always follow new recipes exactly the first time. So I approached this the same way and followed the instructions exactly.After I put the beer in the fermenter I wasn't really sure what to expect. It started bubbling the 2nd day and a large foam formed on top of the liquid. After a week the bubbling had completely stopped the foam subsided. I had the fermenter in a cabinet in my b…asement which was around 68F.The next week there wasn't much to see as it lay looking dormant. At 2 weeks I bottled the beer. A week and a half later I tried one of the beers and it tasted great with a good head on the beer. It tasted to me very similar to Big Sky's Moose Drool.I will definitely be making more beers. Norther Brewer's kit was great. I made sure to tighten the spigot and test it for leaks. I had to put quite a bit of pressure to get it tight enough. I did mess up a couple of bottle caps before I got the feel and now it's pretty easy.I highly recommend this.

The process was easy to follow and the beer was really good. Great starter kit for new home brewers.

I bought this kit last year so my boyfriend and I could attempt to brew our own beer. The kit is great, and we used both the provided written instructions as well as their youtube video to work through the steps. The beer turned out great!We eventually moved across the country and had to leave this kit behind, but we recently purchased one of their five gallon brew kits to start making a larger amount of beer. We will review that kit once we have our beer ready!

If you are willing to take the effort, it is quite easy to make. Would be helpful to have an extra hand but it is not necessary, I did it all by myself. Very detailed instructions and you cannot go wrong with the the process. No need of extra purchases except for the bottles. May take you little over two hours for the brewing. It would make a great gift for a beer lover.The beer by itself wasn't great but the experience was worth it. A good starter pack.

I purchased this on December 15th and when it arrived the yeast was already expired as of November 2020.

Great product and lots of good ingredients

** Updated -- Northern Brewer has great customer service. We contacted the company and they are sending us a new kit. I've since changed my review from 2 starts to 4 stars. Thanks, Northern Brewer!We got this kit as a gift for Christmas and were really excited to use it. Everything was going well until we needed to transfer the wort to the jug. The mini-siphon was broken and wouldn't create a seal. Since it wasn't air tight, it couldn't pump anything. Even if the siphon worked, the tubing they …provide is too short and needs to be 2-4ft longer. As a result of this, beer ended up everywhere in our kitchen. We were incredibly careful to keep everything sterile, only to have it all ruined by faulty equipment. Really disappointed.

Received the glass little big mouth bubbler and contents to make the IPA. Unfortunately when filling the bubbler with HOT tap water (per the directions), it cracked. Given this is a glass item, this stuff happens, but was disappointing.What was NOT disappointing was the excellent customer service I received when I contacted the seller. They responded back to me promptly and replaced the glass bubbler with a plastic one. Further they provided me with additional hops content as we had started… the process (not sure how the original one will come out given I only had a 5 gallon bucket handy for 1 gallon of beer!). I am very pleased with the courteous tone, the quick response, and the fact that this company went above and beyond what I was hoping for.I would recommend this kit (with the plastic bubbler) to anyone. The directions are easy, and it was really a fun process!