Best Beer Brewing Kits in 2024

Homebrewing is a great hobby, and no, you don’t need a long beard or wear wool beanies to be good at it. Neither, for that matter, do you need to live in Brooklyn or the Pacific Northwest. These days, in fact, there are any number of home beer brewing kits that are suitable for all different skill levels to help you get started making all sorts of different kinds of beers, no matter where you live, and no matter what your lifestyle happens to be.

From fully-automated to small-batch brewing, get your start as a homebrewer with any of the best beer brewing kits presented in our article. From delicious ciders to flavorful IPAs and from hearty stouts to refreshing Hefeweisens, there’s a beer making kit that’s perfect for you. Best of all, the process can be as simple or as complicated as you choose to make it. You never know how far you’ll take the homebrewing hobby, and you won’t believe the delicious results.

Our Top Picks

Take a sip from a few of the beer brewing kits we reviewed.

A Closer Look: Best Brewing Kits

What’s the best beer brewing kit to buy? That information and a whole lot more is coming up in our next section.

Up first in our ranking is the Northern Brewer Essential Brew Home Brewing Starter Set. With this all-inclusive kit, you can choose the style of beer you would like to make: a Hef, IPA, or amber. The kit otherwise includes a 6.5 gallon fermenter with a spigot, cleaning supplies, sanitizers, and a bottle capper and caps, among other useful items.

And by the time you’re finished you’ll have five gallons of finished beer — or enough to fill fifty 12-ounce bottles. Those who’ve tried the well-reviewed and highly recommended kit call it an excellent deal for the price, adding that it makes great beer at a great value. The directions are straight forward, we learned, and with some time and commitment, your brewing skills will improve.

If you’re looking to brew your own beer with as little time and effort spent as possible, choose an automated system. We like the Beerdroid. This gizmo is Wi-Fi enabled and pre-programmed for brew lagers and ales, but it’s also flexible enough to develop your own recipes. Or instead, experiment with all the different kinds of other beers you’re able to make with the high-tech system.

Also notable, this brewing bot is temp controlled, with patented end of fermentation (EOG) technology, and automatic storage mode. Fans of the BeerDroid call it easy to use, and easy to clean and keep sanitized. Most importantly, it makes delicious beer, and the temperature control mechanism keeps the yeast in its ideal environment for optimal results, according to reports.

For beginners who are just getting into making their own beer, we recommend the Mr. Beer Complete Beer Making Starter kit. Designed specifically for homebrewers who are just learning how to homebrew, this system has simple, all-natural ingredients included with purchase, and your first brew will be ready to drink in about a month. 

Otherwise, the instructions are easy to follow, and useful items are included with purchase, like a 2-gallon fermenter and eleven 25-ounce reusable bottles. Best of all, the beer it produces is smooth and easy to drink. This is also an especially good choice if you’re short on space, and a can of brewing extract comes included in the kit, as well as all-natural barley and hops.

Offering everything a homebrewer needs to get started and then some, the most deluxe beer brewing kit in our ranking comes from BrewDemon. With pro-grade conical fermenter, this kit comes complete with 1-quart bottles, and several easy-to-use recipes, including an American Prophecy Ale recipe developed by Speight, a well-known New Zealand brewery.

Overall, the product is simply enough for beginners to get started with, but sophisticated enough to keep them interested as their skills improve. It makes great beer at a great price, and everything from sanitation to transferring the beer to the bottles is a breeze, according to reports. If you’ve been using a carboy for your homebrewing projects, this will be a definite upgrade, based on feedback.

The best home brewing kit to buy for not a lot of money without a doubt comes from Craft a Crew. The brand’s beer brewing kit is sold at an unbeatable price, including a 1-gallon carboy, fresh-packed ingredients and a Hefeweizen recipe. Nicely, the kit is also available with a broad range of other recipes to choose from, like a chocolate milk stout, a brown ale, or a single hop IPA, naming just a few.

Otherwise, pick up the Craft A Brew kit and you’ll get a funnel, racking cane, rubber stopper, transfer tubing, and thumb clamp among other important tools in the process of making beer. Most importantly, though, the end results are amazing, according to reports, with easy to use instructions. And even though there are a few additional items you’ll need to purchase like a 1-gallon pot to boil the wort, it’s still a cost-effective option, we found out.

For a small-batch beer brewing, we like the Everyday IPA beer making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop. Offering a nice selection of recipes to choose from including an IPA, a wheat and even a saison, among others, Brooklyn Brew Shop is sold with a 1-gallon reusable glass fermenter, a thermometer, and vinyl tubing. The pot and bottles and other important tools in the process of making beer are sold separately, however.

Although some say this kit is best for intermediate homebrewers, others call it a great place to start, adding that it does truly streamline the process of all-grain brewing. The online instructions are clear and easy to follow, and there are even some nice how-to videos on the company’s website. The final product is flavorful, and more than exceptionally-well carbonated, according to reports.

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