Bottles: 25 oz. “designed for brewing” bottles with caps
Everything you need to make 2 gallons (16 pints) of beer (except water)
All of the equipment included is this kit is reusable
“She’s feisty, this one, but not too bitter. Showcasing vibrant amber hues, velvety smooth caramel malt character, even bitterness and a delicate citrus hop aroma, this amber ale epitomizes the characteristics that make this style a microbrewery standard.”
Brewing extracts: all natural, GMO free, no added sugar
The proprietary brewing yeast is designed to perform well at a wide variety of temperatures
What’s in the Box?
1x 2 Gallon Fermenter with Lid
11x Bottles
1x Spigot, Washer and Nut Assembly
1x Bewitched Amber Ale Brewing Extract
1x Packet of Yeast (Under lid of Brewing Extract)
1x Packet of No-Rinse Cleanser
1x Easy-to-Follow Brewing Instructions
@cengland0 Lowenbrau light is a very tasty ale or beer. I’m not a big beer drinker to me this is an amazing tasteful non smelly ale or beer whatever anyone wants to call it. You should give it a try you might find your taste buds jumping up and down for joy. @cengland0 Like I always say you won’t know unless you try. Hope you do. Peace ✌ out!
@cengland0 oh yes you are so right I just love cheese and crackers with my grape’s. I’m a red grape drinker once in awhile. It’s also very good for the health too.
@hotwheels53 The last time I drank beer was in 1983. I have since discovered I am celiac so I have to stay away from gluten which is found in barley. That makes most beers a non-option for me.
Besides, it’s like fish. I tried about 10 different species and they all taste terrible. But then I have friends that tell me to try this or that type of fish. I say no. If 100% of my sample size tastes as bad as it did, I’m not going to keep trying different fish species – same with the beer.
If you stab yourself in the leg and it hurts, would you then try stabbing yourself in the arm to see if it makes any difference or would you just trust that it will probably be nearly as bad as when you stabbed yourself in the leg? That’s where I am on trying other beers even if I could drink them now which I cannot. I don’t drink alcohol anyway – just once a year when my brother comes to visit during Thanksgiving and we share a bottle of wine amongst 4 people.
@cengland0 I have to agree with the fish part I have tried many types and the only one I found that doesn’t have a fishy take is broiled flounder at Landry’s. Now on the stabbing part I think I will pass altogether on that one. I don’t mind pain as long as it’s somebody else’s. I to am not a big drinker. I might buy a six pack of ale once a year and have wine around certain holidays or to take my communion at home. Thanks for the response and have a blessed day. Peace ✌ out.
I wish I lived in an air conditioned place. But I don’t so this beer will have too much undesired crap in it if I brew it soon here in Anaheim CA. Maybe I should get it and save for winter. Nah. Mr beer cider I’ve already done. Beer from the market is much simpler.
@melonscoop my cider was done in two batches. The first was done in the heat of summer and the next was done after the weather had cooled noticeably. The first had a horrible off putting flavor in it so most went down the drain. The second batch was very reasonable in flavor but weak. My kits were from woot before the switch to include more concentrate per batch. I won’t bother making any with Mr beer again. I prefer the diverse flavor profiles available in the general market. I wish you luck in whatever you decide to do. It’s interesting to do for sure. Temperature is very important based on my very limited experience.
@shortman Cider at home is pretty easy. You just have to be patient. If you want to buy fresh cider from the store, make sure it doesn’t have any stabilizers in it like sodium metabisulfite or potassium metabisulfite. These inhibit yeast growth and will prevent your juice from fermenting. I’m lucky enough to have a colleague who knows an orchard owner and every fall I get 100 pounds of ‘seconds’ for $20. It takes just about a year to forget how much I hate juicing 100 pounds of apples
Once you’ve bottled it, be very very patient. There are a lot of sulfur notes produced during fermentation. They can be pretty off-putting when the cider is young but dissipate over time. If you can wait a year you will be rewarded. I do traditional dry ciders and after a year they are almost like a tart dry champagne. (and almost 7% ABV). Very refreshing but the alcohol sneak up on you
For the price this is goodish. Not a big fan if brewing in plastic.
So lets do the math here.
1 gallon is equal to a 12 pack.
so this two 12 packs or a 24 pack.
So I live in the blesses state of AZ where we have all the craft beer and influence from CA without all the bullshit.
For me 30 bucks for two 12 packs gets me pretty darn good beer.
Best place for info is reddit at r/mead
They have people who are homebrewers all the way to owners of meaderies.
Just try it. Buy a glass gallon bottle, some honey and fruit.
Its not that hard to make decent mead.
@imzwho The most important thing about making mead is making sure you like it first. I have a local apiary and I made 5 gallons of it just because I could. Turns out I’m not a big fan…heh. It’s been in the bottle for 3 years now… I should probably try one again sometime. Oh, and if you do make it, make sure you degas it SLOWLY. Mopping mead off your ceiling isn’t as fun as it sounds.
@capnjb Done that before, had a bottle pop a cork and just about put a hole in the wall.
I feel like starting with a gallon is good advice for anything. I never do more than a 1 gallon batch of a mead or wine unless I know I like it. Then a 3 or 5 gal might happen. Honey is just too expensive to go to waste.
On a side note try a bottle. Mead gets very different with age.
@imzwho So… after that comment I put a bottle in the fridge. I fermented it in October of 2013 and bulk aged it then bottled it in November 2014. It’s probably been 18 months since the last time I opened a bottle (remember I didn’t like it). The unpleasant band-aidy phenolic notes have turned into a nice sherry nose and taste. I’m actually through about a 6oz pour and I don’t not like it. There is a local county fair coming up that has a wine contest and they have a mead sub category. I think I’ll submit a bottle just to get a judges account of where it actually is. Thanks for being an enabler!
@capnjb Yay! I remember my first batch, tried to drink it right out of the gate. It was a sweeter Cyser (apple mead) so it was ok, but pretty meh. Let it sit about 3 months and was amazed at how much changed. Since then I won’t open a bottle with less than 4 months on it, I still have a few over a year that will be opened at a special occasion
As a side note if you ever get an itch to try something else hit up reddit at r/mead and they have a ton of cool stuff. Currently making a neon purple prickly pear mead. Or even try wine on for size, you can make it with grape juice concentrate, its not cheating.
Simple starter recipe is 2 little tubs of concentrate and 2 cups of sugar to a gallon. Throw in some fruit for extra flavor. Even my brother who is a wine vendor likes it.
Remember a friend with mead is a friend with mead!
Foul stuff. All of it. Then again, never liked anything with alcohol in it.
Nothing moral: I’ve smoked/vaped weed for decades, done my share of everything from Ludes to homemade MDMA, and actually wish I did like alcohol. But nope.
My wife says : ’ you have to develop a taste for it."
I never needed to develop a “taste” for pizza, chocolate or Indica crumble. YMMV.
This isn’t home brewing Put up an all grain setup and then there will be some ooh and awes. At this price you’re better off buying a local seasonal release Which seems to be ever week! Anyhow I just spent $12 on a 6 pack of Hoptimum at 9.6% and it’s delicious!
@westworld9 so you’re telling me, my extremely recent drunken omg, i’m going to brew my own beer purchase, is going to disappoint sober me? Will there be a drunk me after to console the aforementioned sober me?
I edited the post for spelling, and now the delicious pizza gif is gone. this is a horrible day.
/giphy heartfelt-sliced-penguin
Let me start by saying i own 4 of these , all the different beers taste excellent i’m gonna run it down for you , fill up your keg 3/4 of the way with luke Warm water , add about half the sanitizer swish it around and empty it don’t rinse the keg, step 2 bring about a gallon of water to a pot bring to a boil and let sit for 20 mins then add the can of malt stir till airrated and mixed, now fill up your keg with cold water to the first line add the malt and water , if need be add WATER TO SECOND LINE ,just put the yeast on top put cap on and store for 2 to 3 Weeks in a cool place like 72 , in 3 Weeks add 2 of the sugar cubes to each bottle sterilize the bottles first with the remaining sanitizer you will get about 11 25 oz bottles enjoy its awesome and hard to fuck up… let sit about 5 days or untill the bottle is very hard then refrigerate when its cold drink it YOU CAN GET REFILLS FOR 12 BUCKS ON SALE AT AMAZON THE IRISH STOUT GOES ON SALE ALOT 28 bucks for all this is an insane deal
I made the stout earlier this year. It was surprisingly good, but took a long time and honestly, I don’t drink enough beer to go through it fast enough. It was a good experience though.
Mr. Beer kits are the easy-bake oven of brewing… Think of it like a cake mix for beer… They are not quite the same as ‘real’ home brewing, but they’re a decent gateway appliance.
Note: The description says all-grain, but Mr Beer kits are actually “Hopped Malt Extract” NOT All-grain. (i.e. It’s a sticky, molasses-like sugar in that can, that’s pre-hopped) When you start brewing for real (5 gallon kits in glass carboys) you move up to partial grain (aka Mini-mash, which is malt extract and a few pounds of grains, and you follow a hops schedule during the brewing process). The next phase, where things start to get expensive, is moving up to all-grain (Where you start with ~15-20lbs of grains in a mash-tun, larger stainless brew pots, etc, like baking/cooking from scratch).
That said, these Mr Beer kits are great starter appliances. Follow sanitizing instructions well, though don’t rinse the sanitizer out (with unsanitary water). Rather, sanitize your ‘keg’ invert it, and let it air dry. Even better, pick up some Star-san. My wife is the brewer in our house, I just sample and carry things up and down stairs, clean bottles, etc (which is a pretty good arrangement IMHO). If and when you move up to ‘real’ equipment, there is still a place for the Mr Beer… We use ours to brew ~1-2 gallon ‘session’ beers (i.e. a second, weaker steeping of our grains), which means a 5-gallon all-grain recipe generates 5 gallons of strong stuff, plus 2 gallons of a weaker, typically lighter, but totally drinkable batch of beer.
Cheers!
Budweiser and Miller Lite are not made with extract. They are made with grain. Why would a large brewery pull all the fermentables out of the grain, then reduce it down to a thick malt extract, then rehydrate back to its original, but now lesser form. It’s an expensive process (that’s why it’s cheaper to brew all grain beers at home then extract). Malt extract, like that provided in kits like these, are for those who don’t have the equipment to mash the grain themselves. Oh, corn and rice are not extracts, they are adjuncts, used to provide more sugars to the wort without adding a larger malt profile (amongst other things like mouthfeel and SRM). I’m not a fan of Bud or Miller Lite but it is very difficult to brew a beer with so little body and flavor. No malty backbone or high bitterness levels for any off flavors to hide behind.
And dagnabbit, now you’ve made me go off on a beer rant and I haven’t even had a full cup of coffee yet.
I don’t get the hate for extract brewing. If you’re making more basic styles it’s perfectly fine. Granted it doesn’t lend itself to experimentation, but I’ve made some killer stuff using simple LME and a pre-boil grain steep.
@InfidelCastro I agree. I started with extract brewing (as most do). It’s a great way to jump in to homebrewing as well as figuring out your process. I still do an extract brew when I make a Graff. (Graff is an apple beer that was featured in the Gunslinger series by Steven King). I do a 1 gallon batch of a simple pale ale then add the wort to 4 gallons of cider and ferment. Keg doesn’t last long
@InfidelCastro No hate, except that all-malt kits like this are pre-hopped. “Pre-boil grain steep” IS a partial grain, and is certainly due respect… Most ~$30-50 5 gal ‘kits’ are that way!
Does this include the bottles? The description says it does, but they aren’t included in What’s in the Box. Also, the Amazon listing has them, but the Mr Beer website doesn’t (based on the product number).
My one and only experience with beer brewing was as a spectator in a co-op with 24 people. A Phd student in chemistry and an undergrad engineering student decided this was the way to go. Swiping chemistry glassware they did their thing. Then, eventually, they filled up the beer bottles, set them in the engineering student’s room and kabang! Stuff started exploding. He needed stitches on his lip. Not so sure they will be/are now good in their respective fields based on that LOL
@Pantheist I didn’t consume and it didn’t appear to kill either of them… of course they may have just gotten lucky… those two had questionable judgement anyway… more stories concerning avocado ice cream (if ice cream could grow mold it would have - tasted like a freshly mowed lawn smells) and etc. etc. etc.
@Dave or whomever:
Next time you have these starter kits, why not offer a (small?) selection of different refills, please, to go with them? Or, maybe a “variety” pack?
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x 2 Gallon Fermenter with Lid
11x Bottles
1x Spigot, Washer and Nut Assembly
1x Bewitched Amber Ale Brewing Extract
1x Packet of Yeast (Under lid of Brewing Extract)
1x Packet of No-Rinse Cleanser
1x Easy-to-Follow Brewing Instructions
Pictures
Stuff
Buzzwords
Labels
A beer and a condom
Box
Bottles
Ha! I love Planes Trains and Automobiles
Price Comparison
$53.08 at Amazon
Warranty
30 Day Mr. Beer
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Jun 29 - Monday, Jul 3
these make really shitty margaritas.
This is at least the 4th time this was sold.
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@cengland0 Not this Bewitched style/flavor, I think it’s our first time trying this one.
@dave all beer is the same to me.
@cengland0
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@cengland0 you should try this
@communist If it’s made of grapes and called wine, I might try it. Oh, and I will have some cheese with that wine.
@cengland0 you also need a swift punch to your taste buds
@cengland0 Lowenbrau light is a very tasty
ale or beer. I’m not a big beer 
drinker to me this is an amazing tasteful non smelly ale or beer whatever anyone wants to call it. You should give it a try you might find your taste buds jumping up and down for joy. @cengland0 Like I always say you won’t know unless you try. Hope you do. Peace ✌ out!
@cengland0 oh yes you are so right I just love cheese and crackers with my grape’s. I’m a red grape drinker once in awhile. It’s also very good for the health too.
@hotwheels53 The last time I drank beer was in 1983. I have since discovered I am celiac so I have to stay away from gluten which is found in barley. That makes most beers a non-option for me.
Besides, it’s like fish. I tried about 10 different species and they all taste terrible. But then I have friends that tell me to try this or that type of fish. I say no. If 100% of my sample size tastes as bad as it did, I’m not going to keep trying different fish species – same with the beer.
If you stab yourself in the leg and it hurts, would you then try stabbing yourself in the arm to see if it makes any difference or would you just trust that it will probably be nearly as bad as when you stabbed yourself in the leg? That’s where I am on trying other beers even if I could drink them now which I cannot. I don’t drink alcohol anyway – just once a year when my brother comes to visit during Thanksgiving and we share a bottle of wine amongst 4 people.
@cengland0 I have to agree with the fish
part I have tried many types and the only one I found that doesn’t have a fishy take is broiled flounder at Landry’s. Now on the stabbing part I think I will pass altogether on that one. I don’t mind pain as long as it’s somebody else’s. I to am not a big drinker. I might buy a six pack of ale once a year and have wine 
around certain holidays or to take my communion at home. Thanks for the response and have a blessed day. Peace ✌ out.
I wish I lived in an air conditioned place. But I don’t so this beer will have too much undesired crap in it if I brew it soon here in Anaheim CA. Maybe I should get it and save for winter. Nah. Mr beer cider I’ve already done. Beer from the market is much simpler.
@shortman how did your cider turn out? That’s what I’d be most interested in brewing at home.
@melonscoop my cider was done in two batches. The first was done in the heat of summer and the next was done after the weather had cooled noticeably. The first had a horrible off putting flavor in it so most went down the drain. The second batch was very reasonable in flavor but weak. My kits were from woot before the switch to include more concentrate per batch. I won’t bother making any with Mr beer again. I prefer the diverse flavor profiles available in the general market. I wish you luck in whatever you decide to do. It’s interesting to do for sure. Temperature is very important based on my very limited experience.
@shortman You live in Anaheim with no A/C!? Isn’t that against the Geneva Convention?
@shortman Cider at home is pretty easy. You just have to be patient. If you want to buy fresh cider from the store, make sure it doesn’t have any stabilizers in it like sodium metabisulfite or potassium metabisulfite. These inhibit yeast growth and will prevent your juice from fermenting. I’m lucky enough to have a colleague who knows an orchard owner and every fall I get 100 pounds of ‘seconds’ for $20. It takes just about a year to forget how much I hate juicing 100 pounds of apples
Once you’ve bottled it, be very very patient. There are a lot of sulfur notes produced during fermentation. They can be pretty off-putting when the cider is young but dissipate over time. If you can wait a year you will be rewarded. I do traditional dry ciders and after a year they are almost like a tart dry champagne. (and almost 7% ABV). Very refreshing but the alcohol sneak up on you
@capnjb I made a cider that was almso vinegar, then went back to sweet.
For the price this is goodish. Not a big fan if brewing in plastic.
So lets do the math here.
1 gallon is equal to a 12 pack.
so this two 12 packs or a 24 pack.
So I live in the blesses state of AZ where we have all the craft beer and influence from CA without all the bullshit.
For me 30 bucks for two 12 packs gets me pretty darn good beer.
So whats my solution?
Screw beer make mead.
@imzwho I’d love to get started making mead. Any pointers for someone just starting out?
@dimwittedanimal
Best place for info is reddit at r/mead
They have people who are homebrewers all the way to owners of meaderies.
Just try it. Buy a glass gallon bottle, some honey and fruit.
Its not that hard to make decent mead.
@imzwho The most important thing about making mead is making sure you like it first.
I have a local apiary and I made 5 gallons of it just because I could. Turns out I’m not a big fan…heh. It’s been in the bottle for 3 years now… I should probably try one again sometime. Oh, and if you do make it, make sure you degas it SLOWLY. Mopping mead off your ceiling isn’t as fun as it sounds.
@capnjb Done that before, had a bottle pop a cork and just about put a hole in the wall.
I feel like starting with a gallon is good advice for anything. I never do more than a 1 gallon batch of a mead or wine unless I know I like it. Then a 3 or 5 gal might happen. Honey is just too expensive to go to waste.
On a side note try a bottle. Mead gets very different with age.
@imzwho So… after that comment I put a bottle in the fridge. I fermented it in October of 2013 and bulk aged it then bottled it in November 2014. It’s probably been 18 months since the last time I opened a bottle (remember I didn’t like it). The unpleasant band-aidy phenolic notes have turned into a nice sherry nose and taste. I’m actually through about a 6oz pour and I don’t not like it.
There is a local county fair coming up that has a wine contest and they have a mead sub category. I think I’ll submit a bottle just to get a judges account of where it actually is. Thanks for being an enabler! 
@capnjb Yay! I remember my first batch, tried to drink it right out of the gate. It was a sweeter Cyser (apple mead) so it was ok, but pretty meh. Let it sit about 3 months and was amazed at how much changed. Since then I won’t open a bottle with less than 4 months on it, I still have a few over a year that will be opened at a special occasion
As a side note if you ever get an itch to try something else hit up reddit at r/mead and they have a ton of cool stuff. Currently making a neon purple prickly pear mead. Or even try wine on for size, you can make it with grape juice concentrate, its not cheating.
Simple starter recipe is 2 little tubs of concentrate and 2 cups of sugar to a gallon. Throw in some fruit for extra flavor. Even my brother who is a wine vendor likes it.
Remember a friend with mead is a friend with mead!
Is a Toyota made in Kentucky an American car or a Japanese car?
If your answer is the latter, then Budweiser, Coors, and Miller are not American beers.
I rarely drink foreign beers. There are too many great American beers out there.
/giphy bewitched
The carbonation drops are not listed in “What’s in the Box?” are they included?
@therealjrn I’ve ordered one of these before and they were in the box.
Don’t wanna make any beer but damn, I LOVED Bewitched! Samantha was my hero!
Fine. I guess I’m gonna be that guy.
/giphy spikey-eaten-crawdad
Foul stuff. All of it. Then again, never liked anything with alcohol in it.
Nothing moral: I’ve smoked/vaped weed for decades, done my share of everything from Ludes to homemade MDMA, and actually wish I did like alcohol. But nope.
My wife says : ’ you have to develop a taste for it."
I never needed to develop a “taste” for pizza, chocolate or Indica crumble. YMMV.
@droopus
ok? how is this comment helpful?
@amitchejr whoa, whoa! Helpfulness is not the bar for comments around here. Perish the thought. You trying to make this a ghost town?
This isn’t home brewing
Put up an all grain setup and then there will be some ooh and awes. At this price you’re better off buying a local seasonal release 
Which seems to be ever week! Anyhow I just spent $12 on a 6 pack of Hoptimum at 9.6% and it’s delicious! 
@westworld9 so you’re telling me, my extremely recent drunken omg, i’m going to brew my own beer purchase, is going to disappoint sober me? Will there be a drunk me after to console the aforementioned sober me?
I edited the post for spelling, and now the delicious pizza gif is gone. this is a horrible day.
/giphy heartfelt-sliced-penguin
Before drinking: Bewitched
After drinking: Webitched
Let me start by saying i own 4 of these , all the different beers taste excellent i’m gonna run it down for you , fill up your keg 3/4 of the way with luke Warm water , add about half the sanitizer swish it around and empty it don’t rinse the keg, step 2 bring about a gallon of water to a pot bring to a boil and let sit for 20 mins then add the can of malt stir till airrated and mixed, now fill up your keg with cold water to the first line add the malt and water , if need be add WATER TO SECOND LINE ,just put the yeast on top put cap on and store for 2 to 3 Weeks in a cool place like 72 , in 3 Weeks add 2 of the sugar cubes to each bottle sterilize the bottles first with the remaining sanitizer you will get about 11 25 oz bottles enjoy its awesome and hard to fuck up… let sit about 5 days or untill the bottle is very hard then refrigerate when its cold drink it YOU CAN GET REFILLS FOR 12 BUCKS ON SALE AT AMAZON THE IRISH STOUT GOES ON SALE ALOT 28 bucks for all this is an insane deal
@mellowirishgent Get one of these starter kits and really get into brewing. You can make any style beer
you want in five gallon batches. It makes much better beer than Mr brew. I know because Mr. Beer is how I started.
https://www.midwestsupplies.com/homebrewing-equipment/equipment-kits
I made the stout earlier this year. It was surprisingly good, but took a long time and honestly, I don’t drink enough beer to go through it fast enough. It was a good experience though.
Couldn’t resist. Now all I have to do is dig a larger entrance to my crawl space. actual-peppy-disease
Mr. Beer kits are the easy-bake oven of brewing… Think of it like a cake mix for beer… They are not quite the same as ‘real’ home brewing, but they’re a decent gateway appliance.
Note: The description says all-grain, but Mr Beer kits are actually “Hopped Malt Extract” NOT All-grain. (i.e. It’s a sticky, molasses-like sugar in that can, that’s pre-hopped) When you start brewing for real (5 gallon kits in glass carboys) you move up to partial grain (aka Mini-mash, which is malt extract and a few pounds of grains, and you follow a hops schedule during the brewing process). The next phase, where things start to get expensive, is moving up to all-grain (Where you start with ~15-20lbs of grains in a mash-tun, larger stainless brew pots, etc, like baking/cooking from scratch).
That said, these Mr Beer kits are great starter appliances. Follow sanitizing instructions well, though don’t rinse the sanitizer out (with unsanitary water). Rather, sanitize your ‘keg’ invert it, and let it air dry. Even better, pick up some Star-san. My wife is the brewer in our house, I just sample and carry things up and down stairs, clean bottles, etc (which is a pretty good arrangement IMHO). If and when you move up to ‘real’ equipment, there is still a place for the Mr Beer… We use ours to brew ~1-2 gallon ‘session’ beers (i.e. a second, weaker steeping of our grains), which means a 5-gallon all-grain recipe generates 5 gallons of strong stuff, plus 2 gallons of a weaker, typically lighter, but totally drinkable batch of beer.
Cheers!
Budweiser and Miller Lite are not made with extract. They are made with grain. Why would a large brewery pull all the fermentables out of the grain, then reduce it down to a thick malt extract, then rehydrate back to its original, but now lesser form. It’s an expensive process (that’s why it’s cheaper to brew all grain beers at home then extract). Malt extract, like that provided in kits like these, are for those who don’t have the equipment to mash the grain themselves. Oh, corn and rice are not extracts, they are adjuncts, used to provide more sugars to the wort without adding a larger malt profile (amongst other things like mouthfeel and SRM). I’m not a fan of Bud or Miller Lite but it is very difficult to brew a beer with so little body and flavor. No malty backbone or high bitterness levels for any off flavors to hide behind.
And dagnabbit, now you’ve made me go off on a beer rant and I haven’t even had a full cup of coffee yet.
I don’t get the hate for extract brewing. If you’re making more basic styles it’s perfectly fine. Granted it doesn’t lend itself to experimentation, but I’ve made some killer stuff using simple LME and a pre-boil grain steep.
@InfidelCastro I agree. I started with extract brewing (as most do). It’s a great way to jump in to homebrewing as well as figuring out your process. I still do an extract brew when I make a Graff. (Graff is an apple beer that was featured in the Gunslinger series by Steven King). I do a 1 gallon batch of a simple pale ale then add the wort to 4 gallons of cider and ferment. Keg doesn’t last long
@InfidelCastro No hate, except that all-malt kits like this are pre-hopped. “Pre-boil grain steep” IS a partial grain, and is certainly due respect… Most ~$30-50 5 gal ‘kits’ are that way!
I really want to try this. But can someone comment on how the product in these bottles holds up in the refrigerator over time?
@jnorts These are probably best enjoyed fresh.
@jnorts I’d advise getting a set of 750mL or 1L glass bottles with flip-tops. Our beer keeps well in the closet for over a year. https://www.amazon.com/Kegco-Liter-Flip-Top-Home-Bottles/dp/B06XXVJW9T?
@caffeineguy
Great. Thanks for the info
Does this include the bottles? The description says it does, but they aren’t included in What’s in the Box. Also, the Amazon listing has them, but the Mr Beer website doesn’t (based on the product number).
@christinerobyn tagging @dave @shawn @Thumperchick
@christinerobyn That threw me for a loop for a minute so I asked our buyer to verify. This set does come with the bottles. Sorry for the late answer.
When are you gonna do a root beer or cider?
My one and only experience with beer brewing was as a spectator in a co-op with 24 people. A Phd student in chemistry and an undergrad engineering student decided this was the way to go. Swiping chemistry glassware they did their thing. Then, eventually, they filled up the beer bottles, set them in the engineering student’s room and kabang! Stuff started exploding. He needed stitches on his lip. Not so sure they will be/are now good in their respective fields based on that LOL
@Kidsandliz Shouldn’t use used chem glassware for something you’re going to consume anyway.
@Pantheist I didn’t consume and it didn’t appear to kill either of them… of course they may have just gotten lucky… those two had questionable judgement anyway… more stories concerning avocado ice cream (if ice cream could grow mold it would have - tasted like a freshly mowed lawn smells) and etc. etc. etc.
@Dave or whomever:
Next time you have these starter kits, why not offer a (small?) selection of different refills, please, to go with them? Or, maybe a “variety” pack?
@phendrick That’s not a bad idea… in the meantime, you can find the available refills on the Mr Beer site.
@Thumperchick Thanks, but prices there (incl. shipping) are not mediocre enough for me…
[you guys rock]
@phendrick i don’t know how meh you need the refill price to be, but AMZN has some that appear to me not too pricey.