Home brewing

pinter.co.uk/
I used to get mine from here.
Nice and simple. (edited)

Pinter will do the job but traditional home brewing will be (possibly) cheaper (it's easy to go mad) and produce substantially more (and eventually better) beer.

You'll need 4 things - something to ferment in, something to clean and sterilise all the equipment, something to ferment and then something to hold the finished beer.

Plenty of places do a homebrew starter equipment kit (e.g. brew2bottle.co.uk/col…kit) but plenty of people give it a try and give up so you might get lucky and find a second hand kit.

Cleaning/sterilising is one of the critical things and getting it wrong can easily ruin your efforts. For ease, buy 'no rinse' sanitiser.

For your first attempt buy an extract kit that has everything you need. Try to avoid the cheaper kits that require you to add sugar as they're generally poor (unless you you know what you're doing and pimp them up).

For conditioning/storing you can either go bottle or keg. Glass bottles need extra equipment and introduce the risk of bottle bombs if you over prime. You can reuse fizzy drink bottles to save going to the expense of buying a pile of bottles that you might only use once if you don't like it. Kegs are easier but more expensive and you'll need to either drink the lot quickly or buy CO2 to charge up the keg as you draw off.

Just be aware that your first one will most likely not be great but if you can finish the lot without putting any down the sink then you've done OK in my book. Also be aware that it can get quite addictive and before you know it you're brewing from grain, have a cupboard full of equipment and lose whole weekends in search of perfecting you're brew. (edited)

Wow - haven't heard much about home brew since the 70s!