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Best home brewing and beer making kits to shop in the UK

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It’s one of life’s quiet pleasures; a nice, cold pint. 

Whatever you prefer filling your glass - be it lager, ale or IPA - beer can be called upon to quench your thirst on a hot day, provide the full stop to an office day, or be raised (and inevitably spilt) in triumph when your team wins its latest match. 

It’s a timeless drink with a history that stretches back to an astonishing 8000 B.C. in what is now Iraq, when Sumerian women helmed the embryonic brewing industry. 

Today, practically every country has a domestic version, from India’s Cobra and Thailand’s Singa to Czechia’s Budvar. Even Iceland produces its own, despite the drink being illegal in the country until 1989.

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