Homebrewing can be intimidating if you’ve never brewed beer, wine, or mead before. Using home brew kits can make it easy to put together basic supplies and ingredients, especially if you want to get a gift for a potential new homebrewer.
Equipment home brew kits will give you everything you need without going over boarding, or having to spend too much money. Recipe kits will have all the ingredients and easy to follow instructions.
Here are our recommendations:
Extract Home Brew Recipe Kit: German Hefeweizen
One of the first home brew kits we ever used was More Beer’s German Hefeweizen. My brother gave us the kit for Christmas. We had experimented with a couple of our own recipes thinking “hey, we’re smart enough to figure this out on our own.”
However, using the kit made it so easy that we finally had our first solid beer. Seeing how well it turned out helped encourage us to keep trying.
The kit includes the malt extract you need to make five gallons. You can choose between a dry malt or a liquid one. One their website, you can even choose to include the yeast (which needs to be refrigerated during shipping)
All Grain Recipe Kit: Chocolate Milk Stout
I definitely recommend using a recipe kit for your first all grain recipe. We tried our first one and ended up bursting our grain bag, contaminating the wort, and throwing out $50+ of ingredients after the beer turned out horrible.
If I could do it over, I would have chosen this Chocolate Milk Stout from Northern Brewer. The kit removes the guesswork of shopping for the right grains and additives to make sure you get the right chocolaty, milky goodness. It’s a little advanced recipe, but if you’re springing for all-grain you likely have the experience to get through it.
One Gallon Equipment Kit
I put together a post a few months back listing basic supplies you might need to brew your first gallon of mead. Shamelessly plugging that post, you can find everything you need on Amazon for less than $50.
However, if you want the kit preassembled for you, then you might like this kit from Brewer’s Best on Amazon for just $59.30 $64 (updated April 2022). I’m not a huge fan of the shape of the fermenter, but the kit is pretty inclusive of a bunch of great gadgets.
If you’re looking for an easy, useful gift for a potential new homebrewer in your life, these home brew kits are the perfect ideas!
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