Many wine stores sell home brew kits. Although wine is their main product line they also sell a wide array of imported beer and beer paraphernalia. These kits range from the basic to the deluxe models.
One can brew beer at home by purchasing a beer brewing kit from the company Brew Me. They sell many kits, but one must sign a contract that says they will not sell it.
There are a number of retailers in Edmonton where one can purchase home beer brewing kits including Creative Connoisseur, Harvest Brewing, Winning Wines and Brew For Less.
Northern Brewer offers great deals on home brewing kits. They are reasonably priced and are easy to use. Brew kits that they offer come in many different flavors.
The best recommended available beer brewing kits are Coopers, Morgans, Beercrafts, Maltshovel Home Brew and Muntons. These are not the cheapest but provide the best flavour for the money.
No, there are not because moonshine is illegal to produce. It is legal to brew your own beer and wine in America. But your not guilty of breaking any federal laws until you distill the moonshine, thereby separating the alcohol from water and yielding a really high alcohol content.
Yes, you can purchase brewing kits to make your own beer at home. I have a friend that makes his own beer and it tastes great. You can purchase your own at mrbeer.com.
There are several websites for the avid home brewer. You can get more advanced kits or started kits for those just beginning there beer making experience.
As with most hobbies, brewing beer at home can be as easy or as complicated as you make it. You could buy a Mr. Beer or a Cooper's brew kit and have finished beer in a bout two weeks with little to no learning curve. Both the kits mentioned make it as easy as following a recipe. However, you could get more involved in the production of your beer buy buying a homebrew kit from your local brew store or from an online merchant that will give you greater control over the final outcome of the beer. The process is explained in detail at http://www.makebeerathome.info or on a number of other websites and forums.
Most brew kits include; recipe card/s, fermenter and lid (beginners kits usually supply 6.5 gallon tubs), bottling bucket and spigot, hydrometer to determine alcohol content as well as cleaners and pipe work. Most kits will supply everything other than the bottles to dispense the beer into.
I don't recommend a Mr. Beer unless you enjoy drinking chunky yeasty beer.Look for a kit that contains the following:Home Brewing Instruction BookPrimary Fermentation Pail and LidBottling PailSanitizerBottle Capper and Botle CapsBottling WandBottling HosesAirlockSiphon and HoseHydrometerYou will also need a a brewing recipe kit and large pot to brew in.I always recommend a high temperature spoon as well as a hop sock.
Lowes and Home Depot have garage door installation kits in their stores. You can also try Sears as some of their stores carry these kits as well.
One can purchase home tool kits at Ace Hardware stores. These kits are also available at Lowes and Home Depot as well as Target, Walmart. Kmart and Tru Value.