Midwest Homebrewing Supplies offers
a large selection of recipe kits. Our kits cover ale, lager, wheat and specialty hybrid
styles. All ales come with a "top fermenting" yeast, while the lagers come with
a "bottom fermenting" yeast. The ales ferment best at a temperature of
between 60°F and 70°F, while lagers should be fermented between 45°F and 55°F. Lagers
require a longer period of bottle conditioning, typically 6 weeks. This is ideally
accomplished in a refrigerator, but a cool basement floor during the winter months also
works well . To determine if your basement is cool enough simply place a glass of water on
your basement floor with a thermometer in it. If the thermometer reads between 45°F and
55°F, you’re ready to lager. Click here for a
set of Quick Directions for brewing your batch of
beer.
Most of Midwest's
Homebrew Recipe Kits come with multiple options in yeast. The
standard kit comes with a dry yeast, but you also have the
option of upgrading to a pitchable liquid yeast from Wyeast or
White Labs.
Kit Descriptions
(#000) - Kits come with dry yeast packs
(#000W) - Kits come with 1.75 oz. liquid WYeast packet
(#000ACT) - Kits come with ready-to-use Wyeast Activator
(#000WL) -Kits come with White Lab yeast
Wyeast are pure strains
of liquid beer yeast in self contained foil packs. They require activation 6-24 hours
before brewing. This is easily done by holding the yeast pack in your hand and hitting it
with your other hand. This ruptures the yeast culture inside the pack.
Recommended 2-3 days for smack Paks to have a good starter. When you’re ready to add the yeast, simply cut
the yeast pack open and add to your wort/beer. 1.75 oz. packs (000W) are available
for an additional $3.00. New Activators (000ACT) are
available for an additional for $4.00. Activators may be pitched
directly into cooled wort without being activated, but Midwest
recommends activating the package at least 2 hours before
pitching. Activators may also be activated up to 24 hours in
advance.
Each vial of White Labs Pitchable Yeast contains enough high quality liquid brewers
yeast to pitch directly into 5 gallons of wort with no starter necessary. Each vial
represents a concentrated pint size starter of yeast (30-50 billion cells). We include
this many cells for one simple reason, more cells equals shorter lag times and cleaner
(tastier) brews. All White Labs Yeast vials (000WL) are available
for an additional $5.00.
All homebrewing recipe kits from Midwest include: Briess malt
extract (unless otherwise noted), specialty grains, imported and
domestic hops, fresh yeast, priming sugar,
grain bag and complete easy to follow instructions. They are designed to brew 5 gallon
batches.
Call our new toll free number to order your kit today.
1 (888) 449-BREW or 1 (952) 925-9854. Midwest accepts all major credit cards.
Shipping Charges average between $7.30 and $9.00 per
kit depending upon size. Our shopping cart program will let you know the exact shipping
costs. Save money on shipping. The average cost to ship two kits
ranges from $8.80 to $12.00. |
