Homebrewing Holiday Season Gift Ideas 2009

As we enter the holiday season, many of you will be assembling your gift lists for 2009.  Here are some gift ideas for your favorite brewer from BeerSmith:

• BeerSmith Home Brewing Software – $21.95 – Our own homebrewing recipe software
• The Barley Crusher – $109.95 – Dual roller 7lb malt mill for crushing grains
• Beer Starter Kit – $69.99 – Basic beer brewing starter kit for new brewers
• How to Brew Book – $19.99 – A great introduction to brewing for beginners by John Palmer (interview)
• The Auto Siphon – $11 – Makes siphoning from one container to another easy
• Jet Bottle Washer – $12.99 – A personal favorite of mine – fast way to clean bottles
• Home Kegging System – $99 or $159 complete with tank – Stop messing with bottles (keg article)
• Blichmann Beer Gun – $75 – An easy way to fill bottles directly from a kegging system (article)
• Designing Great Beers Book – $19.95 – Book on recipe design by Ray Daniels for intermediate/advanced brewers – a classic!
• 9″ Stainless Domed False Bottom – $24 – To convert your 5 gal Igloo Cooler into a Mash Tun (article)
• 2 Liter Growler – $32 – So you can pour kegged beer and take it to a friend’s house
• Radical Brewing book – $19.95 – Randy Mosher’s eclectic book on a wide variety of brewing topics and styles (article)
• 5.2 pH Stabilizer – $13.99 – A great way to stabilize the pH of your mash for all grain brewers (article)
• 2 liter Erlenmeyer flask – $22 – For making properly sized yeast starters (article) or washing yeast (article)
• 9 Gallon Stainless Pot – $69.99 – Large enough to do full boil 5 gallon all grain batches
• Wort Chiller – $65 – For quickly cooling your beer after boiling (article)
• Beer Ingredient Kits – $Varies – You do need the ingredients if you want to make beer
• New Brewing Lager – $19.95 – An updated version of Noonan’s classic book on brewing lagers
• The BeerSmith Home Brewing Guide – Free! – Our free online guide to brewing with dozens of articles

(Many of the links above are to Adventures in Homebrewing, a sponsor of this site, though many brewing supply stores also carry these products)

If you have your own brewing holiday gift ideas for this season, be sure to drop us a comment below.  Have a great holiday season – and thanks again for visiting the BeerSmith Home Brewing Blog.  As always, you can subscribe for regular email delivery if you enjoyed this post.

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