Although it is true that people have been making beer and wine in their homes since at least 10,000 BC (that we can prove — maybe much earlier) the modern notion of home brewing is very new. 

Chances are that your father did not make beer at home. 

Modern home brewing grew out of the dissatisfaction people started to feel in the early 1980’s with the small selection of mostly bland beers.  Craft beers, micro brews and brew pubs came on the scene to give people a choice of good taste.

Home brewing also made it’s modern appearance.

And with the good also came the bad.  No doubt a lot of bad.

Because, like any craft or art, brewing beer is difficult.  Not once you learn, but to get started.

If you did not learn home brewing at your fathers knee then chances are you have no idea where to start to make beer at home. 

Enter the Home Brewing Kit.

Home Brew Kits are all-in-one solutions to making your first batch of beer.  The best ones come complete with the proper equipment, all the ingredients and detailed instructions to remove all the guesswork. 

If you don’t want to wait through several months of trial and error for your first decent batch of beer, then a beer making kit may be right for you.

Besides giving you a drinkable batch of home brew the first time, home brewing kits also have these things going for them:

1. They are a cheap way to test the hobby.  Hey, even if you love the taste of beer, making it at home may not be right for you.  Why sink $1,000’s into expensive equipment and learn you hate it.  Very good home brew kits can be found on the internet for under $100 and many lesser ones run 1/2 that.

2. Home brewing kits come with EVERYTHING you need — a big plus for the beginner.  The right ingredients and the right equipment are all included.  Not last minute runs to the store when you find you have forgotten an essential component.  Not ruined batch because you used the wrong pail or your airlock did not work.

3. Kits can teach you the process of brewing that you can expand upon if and when you want to buy more serious equipment.

4. Home Brew Kits are designed to do exactly what they say they will and exactly what they need to do and come with detailed step by step instructions to help you along.  No guessing if you have the right piece or if these hops or grains will work for this beer or that.  Plenty of time to experiment later.

Which brings up one of the best reasons to use a home brew kit to make beer at home:

5. The best home brew kits can grow with you.  They are great for starting out — all the ingredients to make your first batch or two of beer — but then you can easily reuse the equipment for you future batches.  Find new recipes and try different styles.  Your kit is ready to perform.

Make sure that if think you may want continue using the kit to make more beer you get a quality kit from the beginning.

These are just a few of the reasons a home brewing kit is best for the beginner. 

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Mark Hester

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The Many Paths to Great Home Made Beer

Before you really get oriented to what home brewing is all about, it’s easy to think it is a process that is set in stone and there is only one right way to do it.  And it is true that the brewing and fermenting process has some steps that must be followed with some discipline if you wish to enjoy a great home made beer.  But one of the reasons that home brewing is such a passion to many people who enjoy this way of making beer is that there as so many varieties of recipes and styles of making.

You can easily get a feel for what a huge variety there is in ways to brew beer and in recipes for ingredients when you visit your local beer supplies retailer, go to home brewing web sites or sit in at home brewing club meetings in town.  And the great thing about the social side of the home brewing culture is that you will come home with a notebook full of ideas of things you can try on upcoming batches of beer.  The odds are you will have months of ideas to try out and you may never run out of new approaches, blends and recipes to try to make your home made beer interesting and tasty for yourself, your family and your friends.

For that first time home brewing recruit, one of the best ways to help him have the fun of making beer at home without so much investment and mess that will come in due time is to go with a home brewing kit or machine.  Beer making machines literally take all of the thinking and planning and risk out of trying out home brewing to see if you want to make the investment in a full set up.  The machine comes with a full set of ingredients for one batch of beer and the equipment is automated so the novice home brewer can make the beer and move it through the fermentation and aging process and know the fun of having real home made beer a few weeks later.

Similarly kits simply the process of buying and using the equipment and ingredients to get started in home brewing.  Unlike the beer making machine which is used once and discarded, the beer maker’s kit gives you the basic equipment which will be the beginning of your collection of the tools of a beer maker to be used over and over many times.  But the kit provides the ingredients and the instructions to make the process of learning to make your own beer easy and fun to learn.

Even for seasoned home beer makers, there are variations on the home brewing method that will give you more flexibility and range of choices that will affect how unique your beer will be.  But each may have a greater investment of work and effort to use effectively so it’s worth getting familiar with them in advance so you know your investment of time and effort and what you might expect with a new brewing method.

Probably the most common brewing method most amateur brewer’s use and the one that is taught in most home brewing guides is the extract method.  And even though it is well known, because you are truly brewing beer yourself as opposed to using a kit or a machine, you can alter the consistencies and flavors of your beer and get a wonderful brew each time you use this approach.

You can settle on the extract method for a long time or perhaps use it exclusively for your brewing career and get great  beers with it every time.  But if you want a greater challenge and the possibility for even more unique beers as a result, you can explore the Mini-Mash method and the Full Mash Brew styles of home brewing.  Each is more complex and takes longer to finish the brewing process.  But they also give you a lot of flexibility and even more ability to make your own beer unique and distinctive.

It’s up to you where to start in your beer brewing hobby and the paths you take.  You can explore new approaches through networking with other brewers.  But you will never get bored brewing beer at home because the variety of methods and ingredients are virtually limitless.

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