Coopers Brewery DIY Beer Kit
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Coopers Brewery DIY Beer Kit
Customer Review: A good place to start.
Summary: 4 Stars
My fiance bought this for me for my birthday. I had done some research online and had hinted that this was the kit for me. With other kits such a Mr Beer you have no room to grow into the hobby, not to mention the questionable quality of the kit itself. With the Coopers kit you get everything you need to start the hobby of homebrewing, and you can always add equipment if you decide to continue. The quality of the kit so far as been excellent, although my bottle filler did drip a bit. I did expect that so placing a small towel under the bottle is a good idea, again it was a small drip.
The starter ingredients are bascially idiot proof, just pour in the can and brewing sugar, add some hot water, add in some cool water then the yeast...then the waiting game. Coopers website has quite a few options as far as varieties go. I plan on using the kit at least one more time to get a good feel, then starting more complex recipes.
Anyway this is the kit to get.
Customer Review: So far we like what we see...
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this or my husband as a gift for xmas - after reading others reviews on here, I decided to go with this model instead of the cheaper beer kits that look small and dinky. He wanted to try an actual brewing so decided on this one after its great ratings.
I got it for xmas for him, the only thing that sucks is that no one said it had to be done in a nice warm temp, I assumed to brew COLD beer, it had to brew in COLD thinking he could set this up in the garage and "play" with it out there. He was so excited to get this (he is out for a few months since having surgery and thought this would take up some of his time) but was disappointed after finding out he had to wait until spring to do it since we don't have the room in the warm house for this to be set up.
We are impressed with the quality of tools and bottles it came with and he can't wait to use it.
Everything is high quality tools, plastics.....so, so far so good :)
Customer Review: Thoughtfully-designed beer kit
Summary: 4 Stars
You COULD go the cheapie Mr. Beer version for around $45 (and trust me, I thought about it), but this one seems like my husband will outgrow it much more slowly. It has some thoughtful touches that make it useful (plastic bottles with screw tops so you don't need a bottler, etc.). Also, you can brew six gallons at a time, which is much more than your basic starter kit.
My husband just made his first batch of the lager that comes with the kit - he was very pleased with how easy it was and how smoothly it went. The starter kit is a nice intro - easy and simple. He's excited to create his own brews, cook hops, etc. but it was nice to start with a sure-fire success on the first batch.
The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that I can't quite figure out why I paid over $100 for a bunch of plastic. There are no parts that look expensive to produce in this kit.
Great b-day gift for the hubby.
Customer Review: Great fun and great tasting beer!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this kit for as a gift last year and my boyfriend liked it so much that he ordered more mix kits. I did a lot of research on beer kits before buying, because I didn't want to get anything too cheap that would be like a Mr. Beer kit and taste bad. I also wanted it to be a little challenging, but not make my boyfriend feel like he had to be a scientist to get the beer to come out correctly.
The instruction video that comes with the kit is pretty funny and we watched it a few times just for laughs. Everything you need is included in the kit, but we bought an extra room thermometer to make sure that the room was at the optimal temp for brewing.
It was also cool to notice that the beer changed taste over time after the brewing is complete. My boyfriend gave out bottles of the brew co-workers, guest, etc I think because there was a total pride behind saying that is was HIS own beer.
Customer Review: Great starter kit!
Summary: 5 Stars
received as birthday present. I'm working on my third batch now. I started with the lager kit that comes included and found it to be OK. I then moved on to their dark ale and bottled it this past weekend. This was done with some assistance of the local 'homebrew' store and I feel it will be even better than the lager. After bottling the dark ale, i began to work with extracts and have, again with teh assistance of my local homebrew store, created a 'custom' brew that's a belgium dark ale. I now need a staging canister to ciphen the completed product (leaving the sediment) into before priming the mix for bottling. This has been one of the best gifts i've received and has started me into a new and exciting hobby. I highly recommend any 'starters' or greenhorns to look into this as an option before getting too deep into the homebrewing hobby.