Craft A Brew Oktoberfest Ale Refill Recipe Kit; 1 Gallon; Ingredients for Home Brewing Beer

£25 for a one gallon brew?

You can get approximately 12 bottles of beer from that batch which is not a lot for that price. You can just buy more beer in the store for that money but that's not the point. It is a great, complete and easy to use kit that allows you to learn how the beer making work and to play around with different tastes. I had the Octoberfest Ale. It came out fairly dark and bitter, exactly the way I like my beer.

I really oscillated back and fourth on buying one of these. Brewing my own beer seems fun but I'm not so interested in doing such as to go all crazy with it. These kits are absolutely awesome. So I had previously been gifted one of the 'mr.beer' kits and I found no enjoyment out of it, seemed like it was for kids, minus the alcohol aspect. What is marvelous about these is the quality of the ingredients, the straightforward directions (which you have to retrieve online and are a one size for all kits pdf, don't sweat it, the directions are perfect) so i made this and the 'Whitehouse' honey wheat. Both came out shockingly well. The beer I was left with i would have raved about had it been served to me in a local brewery. But the hefenweizen is definitely my favorite of the two, by a significant margin. I almost hesitate to leave that remarks as I don't want ppl buying them all up bc I am going to grab several more. All you'll need that the kit doesn't provide is a thermometer to check and monitor your water temp (integral). A 1 gallon glass 'carboy' (13-15 bucks right here on the Zon') and an airlock (I got 2 for like 5 bucks, again right here on the Zon') . GET IT, BREW IT, I used some honey for the bottle conditioning(you'll know what I mean once you read the directions) as opposed to sugar which i used for my first brew (Whitehouse wheat kit). Let's just say a 32oz bottle of my hefeweizen (bought the 6, 32oz bottles on the Zon as well, dirt cheap price, killer bottles) which the kit yielded 4 of, was enough to set me off writing this review. You be the judge.A+++PS!! You'll be wondering how long to ferment and bottle condition, ferment 2 weeks, I bottles conditioned 1 weeks (2 is recommended but I have zero patience) the one week provided ample carbonation and 'head' for me, but most will probably like 2 weeks because yes, it could have used a bit more carbonation. But the dang beer was so delicious it didn't matter.BUY IT!!!

The instructions are online and easy to follow. All the ingredients came fresh and perfect. The flavor of the Oktoberfest ale is perfect and hits all of the notes as described. You definitely need a blow-off tube for the first 24 hours. The fermentation, for me, was very Excited. The photos say the ABV will be 5.5, and the OG is supposed to be 1.056. However, my OG was 1.074, and it ended at 1.020, so my ABV will be 7. That was the only thing that wasn't exact, but overall, it turned out well.The reason for giving 4 stars is that it's pretty expensive, especially if you want to make a 5-gallon batch.

Decent quality and pretty simple brew process, reminds me of a Summer Shandy beer. The instructions could be improved by being in more built point format and easier to print/follow, but that's a minor complaint.

Does not include physical instructions and the ones the manufacturer provides online do not include OG or FG range or many other details. Does not include bottle caps like other companies. Does not include priming sugar like other companies. Seemed fresh and beer turned out alright but I would be willing to spend a couple more dollars to have the caps, paper instructions with OG/FG listed and priming sugar included. They give you sanitizer but it's really only enough for brew day so you have to get more when it's bottling day.Not ordering again