1) Time
Overall it takes less than an hour including sanitizing and clean up. All you have to do is heat up a couple of liters of water. Creating a flavor infusion may take 15 minutes.
2) Value
Doesn’t require extensive equipment. You not have to buy bittering hops (this is key). Coopers has made available the bitterness level in each of its beer kit styles. You can find these statistics here. There is a calculation to use to approximate the final bitterness level based on the final volume of your brew. You can find that formula here.
3) Tastes Good
In this episode of Brew Strong Jamil Zainesheff and John Palmer cover the often shunned kit beer homebrew kits. After Jamil’s travels to Australia Jamil tried brewing a fresh kit beer he picked up and found it to be a great way to brew good beer quickly, even surprising himself at the quality of the kit ingredients.
4) It’s made by you. Whether you bottle or keg your beer it is still made by you. You can call it whatever you want and serve it however you want.
5) Keep the hobby going. There are millions of homebrewers in the world. Most of them are interested in making good beer. Ninety-five percent of them are not interested in spending 6 hours in the kitchen with three pots, a flame-thrower of a burner and $1000 of stainless steel. Beer kits are all about making good beer as simply and easily as possible. Revel in its simplicity.
Whether you are a passionate all grain brewer or a beginning DIY brewer you still want to make you own beer. Using the techniques found in the recipes on this blog you can make good quality beer easily. All you need is a fermenter, a way to boil 2 liters of water, and a way to infuse some additional flavoring (perhaps a coffee press). For the all grain brewer these techniques are so easy you can easily make 2 DIY flash brews while you are waiting for first your mash to convert and second for your 6 gallons of wort to reach a boil.
For the all grain brewer it is important to first remove the stigma that is associated with using a pre-hopped extract.