How hard is it to make beer from kits?
Brewing your own beer, lager or cider from kits is really easy. All you need is: A kit, a fermenting bin, some water and a warm place to brew. (Patience helps but isn’t completely essential.) Kits are available that match just about every possile style of beer, lager or cider and generally consist of one or two cans of concentrated liquid malt extract and a sachet of appropriate yeast, though some manufacturers supply dried malt extract in their kits rather than liquid malt. The amount of malt extract available determines the body and flavour of the finished beer. The malt extract also provides the fermentable sugars that produce the alcohol, so the more of it you have, the stronger the brew. Single can kits need to have sugar or extra dried malt extract added to them because they don’t have enough sugar of their own to produce enough alcohol without some additional help. The fermenting bin is simply a big bucket that is large enough to contain all the water being used in your brew. Mo
