Hi all,
My name is Angela and I'm new to homebrewing. I love beer since I was really young and now trying to add some more fun to it.
I'm an absolute beginner in homebrewing and looking for a kit to start, so suggestions are welcome!
Thank you
Angela
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Hello 
I’d like to recommend Festabrew to get into home breweing. It is an all grain wort that you put in a fermentor an ferment and comes in a 5gal plastic bag inside a cardboard box, and the beer is great. After that, when I started, I went with extract as a base for excessive hopping and made some good IPAs that way, then I moved on to BIAB. But you could skip extract maybe, and go straight to BIAB as a simple all grain method that requires very little equipment. With BIAB you soak a bag of crushed grain in a pot of hot water at the correct temperature for 60-90 minutes, pull out the bag of grain (or drain the wort from a tap on the pot) and then boil the wort (60-90 mins) with hops added to the boil at varying times. Let it cool to the correct temperature with the lid on, or cool it with a chiller if you have one, and then ferment that. You can make brewing as complicated, or as simple as you like, but, however you decide to do it, it will still turn out better than 95% of commercial beers. Cleanliness and sanitation is important though, otherwise the beer will turn out worse than 99.9%
You’ll definitely add lots of fun, making it yourself. Great hobby and good luck!
I’d like to recommend Festabrew to get into home breweing. It is an all grain wort that you put in a fermentor an ferment and comes in a 5gal plastic bag inside a cardboard box, and the beer is great. After that, when I started, I went with extract as a base for excessive hopping and made some good IPAs that way, then I moved on to BIAB. But you could skip extract maybe, and go straight to BIAB as a simple all grain method that requires very little equipment. With BIAB you soak a bag of crushed grain in a pot of hot water at the correct temperature for 60-90 minutes, pull out the bag of grain (or drain the wort from a tap on the pot) and then boil the wort (60-90 mins) with hops added to the boil at varying times. Let it cool to the correct temperature with the lid on, or cool it with a chiller if you have one, and then ferment that. You can make brewing as complicated, or as simple as you like, but, however you decide to do it, it will still turn out better than 95% of commercial beers. Cleanliness and sanitation is important though, otherwise the beer will turn out worse than 99.9%
You’ll definitely add lots of fun, making it yourself. Great hobby and good luck!
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Good to see more women brewing!
At Alexander Keith's we follow the recipes first developed by the great brewmaster to the absolute letter. 
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I'd echo Mark's thoughts as well: Festabrew is a great place to start to learn proper sanitation and fermentation techniques.
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+1 to Festa Brew to get a handle on pocedure and sanitation."He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato
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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Yup, that's the way I started...and look what happened.LeafMan66_67 wrote:
At Alexander Keith's we follow the recipes first developed by the great brewmaster to the absolute letter.
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Festabrew turned my hair pink like that as well. It's GREAT! 
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I started with Festabrew and brewhouse kits
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