Website: https://brewdemon.com/
Brewdemon debuted in 2012. They offer 1 and 2-gallon beer recipes along with starter kits with the basic equipment needed.
Brewdemon also sells hard seltzer, hard soda, hard cider, and regular sod pop recipes. They also sell a variety of seasonal recipes.
Brewdemon Selection is Small
Our biggest issue is the limited selection of beer recipes and the fact they have no 5-gallon recipes. You’ll be lucky to get 10 bottles (12 oz) of beer from a 1-gallon recipe. That will barely cover a long weekend for me.
They only offer 4, 1-gallon beer recipes and just 20, 2-gallon recipes. That’s a limited selection.
Of course, that is the reason they were started in the first place. As the Founder Sam Dramis explains on their About Us page; “I liked the idea of making smaller batches of beer, but all the cool equipment was geared to 5-gallon brewing and up“.
The page further explains the desire to have a canonical fermenter for smaller batches. They engineered their own BrewDemon 2-gallon conical fermenting system, which includes the world’s first 2-gallon conical fermenter (patent pending).
Brewdemon Ratings
Selection | 3 Stars |
Pricing and Affordability | 4 Stars |
Shipping and Delivery | 4 Stars |
Quality and Freshness | 4 Stars |
Customer Support | 4.5 Stars |
Customer Reviews and Ratings | 4.5 Stars |
Educational Resources | 3 Stars |
User-Friendly Website | 4 Stars |
OVERALL RATING | 3.9 Stars |
Brewdemon Online Reviews
The Brewdemon canonical fermenting kit is available on Amazon where the reviews are all over the place. The 1-gallon kit is sold for $69. The range of reviews is from complaints over the quality of the equipment and ingredients to many reviewers who seem pleased. Overall, 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Amazon but those 15 bad reviews are explicit in their complaints.
Google’s new AI offered the following list of pros and cons:
Pros
- Sturdy stands
- Good quality for the brew size
- Easy to use
- Affordable
- Makes top-notch beer
Cons
- Ingredients are just OK
- Flavor is OK, but nothing to get excited about
- Puts form over function
- May pick up the stand when you move it
The online reviews we saw were generally positive, with some reviewers praising the quality of the product, while others recommended other options.
Brewdemon Ranking
At a 3.9 overall rating based on our criteria, Brewdemon comes in at #8 of our top 10 online beer supply stores.
They would be ranked higher if they offered more recipe options than 24, 2-gallon kits. On the other hand, they made it into the top 10, which says something as well.
Brewdemon Conclusion
If you want to start homebrewing and hesitate to invest too much time or money, getting into this hobby with smaller batches makes sense. With Brewdemon recipe kits under $30 for 2 gallons, it’s tempting. Their prices for the 2-gallon starter kits range from $110 up to $190. That’s getting into the same cost for 5-gallon starter kits.
Just shop around. Today there are numerous options for both equipment and recipes for smaller batches.