Home Brewing Starter Kits

A first brew should be simple. One fermenter, one tin, a packet of yeast and somewhere warm to leave it. The kits here bundle the gear so you are not standing in the aisle working out whether you own a hydrometer.

Choose by what you want to drink. The Mangrove Jack's Brewing Starter Kit is the straightforward beer setup, and the Starter Brewery Kit by Mangrove Jacks includes bottles so you are not sourcing those separately. The Morgans Beer Brewing Starter Kit Micro Brewery is the other well trodden route. If beer is not it, the Basic Cider Brewing Starter Kit by Mangrove Jacks does apple, and the Mad Millie Ginger Beer Starter Kit at 5L is a small, low commitment way in.

Bottling is where most kits leave a gap, so sort it at the same time. Morgans PET plastic beer bottles come as a box of 15 x 750ml, with plastic screw caps in 60 packs, which is the least fuss for a first batch. If you would rather use glass, 26mm crown caps come from Morgans, Ferrari and Still Spirits, including 100 packs and twist off gold, and we keep spare capper bells in 26mm and 29 to 30mm for when the old one wears out.

Whatever you buy, spend the extra on sanitiser and use more of it than you think you need. Nearly every disappointing first brew comes back to that.

Come in to Laverton North or Epping, or browse brew extract kits, fermenters and accessories and bottles and closures.