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Homebrew Shops provide consumers and hobbyists supplies for creating home brewed beer. Very often, homebrew supplies are sold in the form of a home brew kit.

From Wikipedia

Homebrewing typically refers to the brewing of beer and similar alcoholic beverages (and sometimes soft drinks) on a very small scale as a hobby for personal consumption, free distribution at social gatherings, amateur brewing competitions or other assorted generally non-commercial reasons.

Homebrew Kits

Complete home brew kits for beer are sold. Sometimes known as beer in a can, no-boil, and hopped wort, beer kits contain liquid malt extract that, when reconstituted with water, produces wort. They are the easiest method available since the basic varieties typically don't require boiling or other preparations. Generally, the quality of beer from these kits can be on par with commercial beer but are generally not as good as home brew made from using malt extract or all-grain methods, and can be a good start for someone overwhelmed by the process. Kits requiring additional sugar tend to produce thinner beers. These "sugar" kits typically come in one 1.8-kilogram (4.0 lb)[21] can.

Some more authentic kits contain extra malt extract and come in two cans weighing a combined 3 kilograms (6.6 lb).[21] A few advanced kits may also come with a hop teabag and require you to boil this with the wort before cooling it and pitching the yeast. On the whole, two-can kits produce thicker-tasting, more commercial brews, since all the alcohol is made from malt sugars. Some learners try a few of the more complex 3-kilogram (6.6 lb) kits to get used to the copper hopping process—boiling wort with hops—process before progressing on to more complex brews.

Brewing by use of beermaking kits may allow the homebrewer to avoid the need to boil the wort. Wort is typically boiled for an hour to two hours, which allows the beer to be infused with hop flavor and also sterilizes the liquid so that it will not be contaminated before the addition of yeast. Beermaking kits are frequently pre-boiled with the hops. And as long as the homebrewer observes sanitary practices, such as sanitizing the fermentation vessel before addition of the malt extract and liquor, the yeast will immediately take hold in the sweet liquid and other microbes will have less chance to spoil the beer.

Basic equipment

Equipment and books may be purchased through local home brew shops or online. Most equipment available through homebrewing suppliers tends to reflect the basic batch sizes of the country concerned; this is partly dictated by the batch sizes that local homebrew kits are designed to produce.