Homemade Beer, with Minimal Effort
Brewing beer at home is a fun and often relaxing hobby. However, some individuals, while they certainly like the idea of brewing at home, simply do not have the time to hone their craft. What is a poor, homebrewing- starved person to do? What else- purchase the Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System, a simple homebrewing kit that takes most of the work out of the equation.
Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System contains a 2.5 gallon keg container, a can of malt mix, a packet of booster, and brewer’s yeast. All the homebrewer has to do is mix the ingredients with water and allow the mixture to ferment for one week. At this point, the brew is transferred to each of eight (included) one- liter bottles. Following one week in the bottle, the beer will be ready to consume. The process, from start to finish, takes about fourteen days and the unit can be used again and again. It even comes with a special cleanser to clean and disinfect the equipment between uses.
If this sounds too easy and simple to be true, well, the good news is that Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System really is simple, and that is the product’s main appeal. Many people love the idea of brewing their own beer, but few in today’s modern, busy world have the time. With the Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System, you don’t need to devote much time at all. You boil the mixture, pitch the yeast, transfer to bottles, etc. There really is no difficult part to this process, unless you want to count the waiting as difficult. But it is still shorter than the time required to brew a large, five gallon batch of homebrew and the time tends to go by quickly.
So, the Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System is fast, but what about the beer quality? Well, results are likely to be mixed and will depend on how careful one is to clean, sanitize, avoid contamination, etc. From my experience, I find the beer decent, but far from the quality of beer one can get with traditional home brewing. That isn’t to say it doesn’t taste good enough to drink. The beer from this small kit is actually decent in taste, but if you have made a few successful batches of homebrew the traditional way, Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System is going to be a letdown.
When you consider everything, this is a difficult product to rate. Is the beer very good? It’s not bad. Is the process easy? Absolutely. Can you get creative with your beer? Yes, and the web site for Mr. Beer offers some good suggestions. Does it compare to a quality batch of all- grain beer brewed using traditional homebrewing means? No, it doesn’t. However, I can see how the Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Microbrewery System could benefit those who are new to homebrewing and/or those who simply do not have the time to devote to making beer the old- fashioned way. And for that reason, I recommend it for newbies and others who might be curious about homebrewing but do nto want to commit themselves to traditional homebrewing.
Rating: 6 Cheers out of 10
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