George’s Beer Fermentation Equipment Kit – Lager – Makes 5 Liters (1.32 Gallons) with Liquid Malt and Hops Extract, Yeast, and Brewing Accessories – Sold by North Mountain Supply
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Style: Kit - Lager
Features
- Produces Up to 5 Liters: Brew up to 5 liters (1.32 gallon) of Lager in less than 1 month, yielding approximately 15 bottles of 12 oz beer.
- A perfect gift and unique experience for a new or long time Homebrewer. This is great way to learn the beer production process, from the basic principles to the more complex details of fermentation chemistry.
- Easy to Use: Add the Liquid Malt and Hops Extract, water, and yeast packet to the fermenter. After the first fermentation, add the recommended sugar to each bottle before sealing.
- Crisp, Clean Lager: Known for its fresh, crisp, and clean taste, this Lager offers a moderate sweetness and delicate bitterness, making it less complex than other beer styles.
- Complete Kit Includes: a 5-liter Fermenter Bucket with Faucet, Liquid Liquid Malt and Hops Extract, Yeast, 2-Piece Airlock, Twin Lever Hand Capper, Crown Caps, Adhesive Thermometer, Sugar Dispenser, and a Comprehensive Instruction Booklet in 5 languages.
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Easy to Use: Simply add the bag of Liquid Malt Extract and hot water to the fermenter. After the first fermentation, add the suggested amount of sugar to each bottle before sealing! Produces Up to 5 Liters: Brew up to 5 liters (1 gallon) of lager in just 14 days, yielding approximately 15 bottles of 12 oz beer. Crisp, Clean Lager: Known for its fresh, crisp, and clean taste, this lager offers a moderate sweetness and delicate bitterness, making it less complex than other beer styles. Complete Kit Includes: 5-liter fermenter bucket, faucet, 2-piece airlock, Twin Lever Hand Capper, crown caps, adhesive thermometer, sugar measure, instruction booklet, and prepared malt. To promote a positive and satisfying customer experience, this product is covered by North Mountain Supply's 30 day hassle-free replacement program, in the event the product is damaged or defective.
Package Dimensions: 12.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches
Item Weight: 4.14 pounds
Manufacturer: North Mountain Supply
Date First Available: November 18, 2024
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Style: Kit - Lager
This George’s Beer Fermentation Equipment Kit – Lager – Makes 5 Liters (1.32 Gallons) with Liquid Malt and Hops Extract, Yeast, and Brewing Accessories – Sold by North Mountain Supply is a fun way to try your hand at brewing. It comes with everything you need except the sanitized bottles to bottle it up. The instructions are pretty easy to follow and the final product comes out as a nice easy drinking lager. I like that if you decide this is something you want to keep doing that the quality of the non-consumable materials is good enough for many batches.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2026 by Jordan
Style: Kit - Lager
I got the whole kit, which includes the syrup concentrate, bucket with lid, spigot and air lock, instruction pamphlet, bottle capper, and bottle caps. I do brew wine and mead in small, 1 gallon batches, make Kimchi and fermented pickles, so I am generally familiar with the fermentation process. I have never tried beer though, so I got the whole kit to give it a try. I do have a friend who is really into beer and hard cider brewing and is member of a brew club, and another friend who owns a local beer brewery, so I have access to some good advice. :-) With that, I will try this George's formula and see how it comes out - I assume it will taste fine as long as I use clean, sanitized containers for the whole process. This review is mostly about the accessories in the whole kit, which add to the price of the syrup about $40 currently. The bucket is a thin plastic, which should work OK. The lid does not seal tightly though, which I think you want to keep oxygen out. The air lock does fit tightly into a supplied, rubber grommet in the lid. So it would be nice to have the lid seal a little better around the edge. The spigot is plastic and functions OK. So overall, the bucket assembly will serve it's purpose, but if you want to continue in this hobby you will upgrade to a better (probably glass) fermenter at some point. For small batches I just use a 1 gallon jug like this 1 Gallon Glass Fermenting Jug with Handle and it works great. You can of course get 3 or 5 gallon jugs as well. The included bottle capper and caps is fine. You can find them separately on Amazon as well, like this Double Lever Hand Beer Bottle Capper with 150 Black Oxygen Barrier Crown Caps]. If you get serious about brewing and storing in capped bottles, you might want to upgrade to a benchtop capper, like [[ASIN:B0CGVVLSPD this one. You can reuse and recap commercial beer bottles (not the twist-off ones) or buy bottles like these 12 Ounce Long-neck Amber Beer Bottles - you would want bottles that are a thicker glass just for safety. Personally, I will be using swing top bottles which will work fine for beer or kombucha, so I don't need the capper. Instructions are simple and easy to follow. Not much is needed on your part other than about a gallon of clean water and some table sugar for the second fermentation inside the bottles. I would suggest sanitizing anything the brew will come in contact with though. You will need to get something like Star San to sanitize your equipment and bottles. Do not use bleach or other chemicals that might either leave a taste behind or kill the yeast. Overall, I think the whole kit is worth it if you want to bottle and cap your finished beer. If you already have fermentation equipment and/or want to use swing-top bottles or a larger container, then just buy the malt extract w/ yeast and save some money. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2025 by Mr. Sixx
Style: Kit - Lager
I'm hooked, I am going to get more. This is also a good gift for guys, from guys because this is something they will actually enjoy. It's a great side hobby to get into and then celebrate with your buds, letting them know you made the beer yourself. I always wondered what the process is and after getting this kit, and getting to make one myself, I didn't realize how easy and fun it would be! I'm already excited and looking forward to my brothers birthdays because I know what to get them now :) This is good for beginners, not sure if there are better options since its my first but definitely happy with this purchase!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025 by Drexdon
Style: Kit - Lager
Came with everything except actual bottles which is fine. The whole kit is in here with step by step instructions. It's easy to follow. My brew isn't done but it smells great and I can't wait to try the finished product.
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025 by JCrow143
Style: Kit - Lager
Had everything I needed to try a home brew. The instructions were crystal clear. Setup was an absolute breeze. I have no idea how GOOD of a job it will do just yet, but I'll come back and update that later. For the price, this seems like a great bargain if you want to dip your toe into brewing just to figure out the fundamentals without sinking a ton of cash into it.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025 by L
Style: Kit - Lager
Ordered as a gift for a beer lover and they enjoyed it. Easy to use and has solid instructions included with it. Taste of the beer was overall good. Easy to clean but not really something intended for longer term or repeated use. Great as a gift but if you're looking to continue brewing your own beer there are better options available.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2025 by Dane
Style: Kit - Lager
This is a cool beer kit and a great gift item for the man that loves making beer. This is my first actual attempt and although I have not finished the process and tasted it yet, I can say from a perspective of how it works, this is simple and it just works.
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025 by Mike&Teresa
Style: Kit - Lager
I had no prior experience with homebrewing, so I had no idea what to expect from this kit. Now that I’m about halfway through the 12-pack of tasty pseudo-craft beers that resulted, I’m sharing my experience and some tips for success. The major selling point of kits like this is that you get all the equipment you need and the really tedious part of homebrewing, i.e. making wort, has been done for you. I gather the process of making wort from scratch goes something like this: obtain wheat and barley in your desired proportion, spread the grain over cloth and keep it damp but not wet until it sprouts, dump the grain into a large pot with hot but not boiling water, maintain the temperature for several hours to let the natural enzymes in the grain turn starch into maltose, and filter the mixture to obtain wort. With this kit, you just mix the contents of a pouch with hot water, keep mixing for a few minutes to aerate the mixture, and you’re done. This literally saves you days while you’re setting up the fermentation. The equipment makes the initial cost outlay a bit higher than I’d like, but it’s all fully functional, doesn’t feel cheap, and will last for a good long while. You do have to supply your own bottles, but that shouldn’t be a problem for most. Once you’ve made the wort, you transfer it into the fermentation vessel, which in the case of this kit is a plastic bucket. At first, I was put off by the relatively small size of the bucket and the fact that it wasn’t made of glass. But I did some reading and it turns out that putting large 5-gallon glass fermentation vessels through repeated heat and pressure cycles makes them prone to shattering or exploding without warning. In fact, plenty of aspiring homebrewers have lost fingers or worse when they least expected it. Knowing that, I’d call the 5-liter size of the fermentation vessel manageable, and its plastic construction a safety feature. After there’s 5 liters of wort in the bucket, you sprinkle in yeast from the provided packet. Don’t be like me and make sure to check the temperature of the wort to ensure it’s low enough for the yeast to survive the addition. Lucky for me, enough of the yeast survived, but if I hadn’t left the kitchen for a few minutes on some distraction or other right before I added the yeast, my homebrew adventure would have ended right then. Use the stick-on thermometer included in the kit to check temperature. With the yeast sprinkled into the wort, the lid on the bucket, and the airlock installed, you put the bucket in a cool place and wait. In my case, I started my batch at the very end of spring and the ambient temperature was just a little higher than the maximum recommended in the instructions, so I had to set up what is known as a swamp cooler. The form this traditionally takes is a wet towel wrapped around the fermentation vessel with one corner in a bowl of water. My version was to place the bucket in a plastic bag with a hole cut in one side for the spout, press an ice pack against the other side of the bucket (using the plastic bag to hold it in place), and swap the ice pack for a fresh one twice a day. Temperature control is apparently the single most important factor in homebrewing success, so I should really have started during winter. But whatever, it worked. Once the fermentation gets started, it’s most vigorous within the first few days. In my case, a large amount of krausen (foam composed of carbon dioxide and yeast biofilm) formed on top of the beer during this time, so much so that it made its way into the airlock and then through the airlock onto the bucket lid. I ended up having to remove the airlock a couple of times to clean and reinstall it. I learned the hard way that if you have to pull out the airlock, you must uncap it first, and when you reinstall the airlock, you must recap it last. Eventually, I hit upon the solution of not reinserting the airlock all the way, leaving about 2/3" of leeway, and this coupled with the fermentation becoming less vigorous meant I didn’t have to touch the airlock again after about the first week. Strictly speaking, an airlock is not necessary; a layer of carbon dioxide forms on the surface of the beer while fermenting, which explains why beer can be fermented in giant open-air vats as it was historically and end up fine. I think the krausen wouldn’t have been an issue for me if the ambient temperature had been lower. An alternative would be to fill the bucket with more concentrated wort to brew less of a higher-proof beer, but I didn’t know that going in. Although the instructions give a timeframe of a couple of weeks for the initial/primary fermentation, I left my wort in for a full month. My reasoning was to wait until bubbling had stopped completely to use that as a marker for the end of fermentation, but it turns out that there can still be bubbling at a very slow rate long after all the sugars in the fermentation vessel have been consumed. While I am going to try three weeks next time, leaving it in that long didn’t hurt the results. It might even have been beneficial, as I’ve read that one month for the primary fermentation isn’t too long for modern yeasts and leaving it for that long will only help the yeast clean up any unwanted byproducts towards the end. By the way, it seems secondary fermentations (not to be confused with bottle conditioning) aren’t necessary these days, and this kit doesn’t have you perform one either. After the fermentation, you bottle the beer with a bit of table sugar. There are three sizes of measuring spoons for sugar volume appropriate for common bottle sizes included in the kit for this purpose, along with fifteen standard bottle caps and a bottle cap press. The press is a welcome addition from North Mountain Supply, the US-based reseller of this (originally Italian) homebrewing kit. It was a little finicky to figure out, but I got the hang of it quickly. The point is for each bottle to undergo a mini-fermentation of its own as residual yeast consumes the sugar (and slightly raises the alcohol content) and the carbon dioxide thus generated is dissolved into the beer to carbonate it. Finally, the beer is ready to drink about a week later once bottle conditioning completes. To recap the timeline and effort involved now that I understand the process, assuming the correct ambient temperatures, it’s about an hour to get a bucket fermenting and another hour 2-4 weeks later to bottle the beer for drinkable results in 3-5 weeks. That’s not too much effort, but it’s also not nothing. Considering the pricing compared to the quality of the resulting beer, you aren’t saving anything unless you value your labor at zero. But this kit is proof that homebrewing as a commodity is viable. If a complete beginner like me can beat macrobrews despite poor technique while learning something in the process, that’s a win. The price of refills is downright reasonable on a per-drink basis, so I’m definitely going to try this again once the temperature’s cooler later this year. Maybe I’ll even try before that with a high-temperature tolerant kveik yeast, or branch out into non-beer drinks like cider or mead. The only oversight - and it’s arguably both minor and not at the same time - is that no sanitizer is included in the package. I didn’t really understand how important sanitation was throughout, and the fact that I ended up with decent results anyway just means I dodged a bullet (and my equipment was all new, which makes things more forgiving the first time). An ounce of no-rinse sanitizer powder and some usage instructions would round this kit out nicely, and I hope future versions of the kit include them.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2025 by Amazon Customer