Beer Equipment Starter Kits

Optimum beer starter kits for your budget

HomeBrewWest continue to introduce new technologies to enable you to produce the best quality home brew beers. We have a wide range of beer starter kits to suit every budget - they produce better quality beers since they minimise air contact with fermented beers at bottling/kegging time.

For commercial brewers, this is very important - they flush containers with CO2 or Nitrogen before they transfer beer in order to minimise air contact. Coopers are the only commercial brewers who make home brew kits. The biggest homebrew company worldwide, they know how to make it work. Which is why Coopers and HomeBrewWest starter kits use a single fermenter for homebrewed beer.

The Coopers Micro-Brew Beer Starter Kit (next generation, now with Ox-Bar bottles) €81.99 now comes with new technology Ox-Bar bottles; its the best selling beer starter kit in the world, and for good reason. Check it out and look at the instructional videos. The packaging and presentation is superb. At HomeBrewWest, its very important that it works for you: so here's a tip: in Ireland, you will need a BrewBelt to keep fermentation temperatures at 22 oC for most beers. So go for: Coopers Micro-Brew Beer Starter Kit (next generation, now with Ox-Bar bottles) With Brewbelt €99.99. Its the best value kit on the market. Statistically, those who buy Coopers starter kits reorder beer kits seven times per year. Most of those who buy other equipment kits may reorder once or twice, and then give up. Sooo . . . Coopers kits work!

The starter kit we now use at Home Brew West is the HomeBrewWest Premium Brew Smart Starter Beer Kit €85.99. Our top of the range starter homebrew kit, it's the most complete kit on the market, with a heating brew belt and 48 Ox-Bar bottles included.

The best value budget system is 33 L HomeBrewWest Brew Smart Starter Beer Kit Without A Beer Kit €27.99. It's got all the essential technology, and allows you to select your own beer ingredients kit. You can use ordinary plastic bottles, but we strongly recommend that you use: Coopers Ox-Bar 24 500ml PET Bottles (better than glass bottles) €11.49.

If you like draught beer on tap, you can upgrade HomeBrewWest starter kits to a full high quality King Keg Top Tap system, so that you have the best system for making both bottled and draught beer. Or go for the Hambleton Bard Complete Keg System For Draught Beer €67.49, it's superb value. 

A heating belt (brew belt) is invaluable when it comes to keeping your fermenting beer at the correct temperature (see the Equipment section). The one we recommend is the Better Brew Brewbelt 25W (fitting 25/33L fermenters); its perfect for 33 litre fermenters.

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