BrewDemonHard Cider Kit Pro by Demon Brewing Company - Conical Fermenter Eliminates Sediment and Makes Wicked-Good Home Made Cider - 2 gallon hard cider kit

Ordered this to give cider making a try. This kit made it very easy. Followed the simple instructions and a couple weeks later enjoying the first batch from the kit. Cleaned everythign up and now fermenting a second batch from scratch and ordered a second coniocal fermenter (not the kit) to be able to do multiple batches. Have had zero issues with the spigot or anything else with it. Stick with the one step and you should have no issues with the plastic.

Brand new to all things brewing, this kit was great! Included absolutely everything I needed except water and sugar. Especially love the conical design so I don’t have to mess with buckets and siphons etc. Can’t wait to make another batch!

I really wanted to love this kit, but at the end of the day it didn't work out.Out of the entire kit, the conical fermenter was the best thing. It is very functional and I plan to use it many more times. The included bottle filling valve was really cool, until I had the whole assembly just pop off while I was filling bottles, causing me to loose about a pint on the floor before I got to the shutoff valve! The equipment alone is good, but the cider itself was not.I painstakingly followed the instructions and I am absolutely confident I did not screw up. I made the blueberry cider, which involves blending blueberry and adding it. The bottom of the fermenter is designed so the yeast can settle at the bottom, and you can drain the cider from the valve without picking up spend yeast (clever idea). The problem with the blueberry was that the small chunks/skins also settled with the yeast, resulting in too many deposits at the bottom, defeating the purpose of the design of the bottom of the fermenter. In other words, when draining the cider through the valve a TON of blueberry particles and spend yeast end up going through.Here is the nail in the coffin. Again, I followed the instructions, except at bottling time, I put in half the amount of priming sugar that was called for. I don't care for excessive carbonation, so I put in less sugar to insure it was not too carbonated. Well, after the bottles sat for a week, I went to finally try the cider. The bottles were so carbonated, literally over half the contents of the bottle came jetting out. I can only imagine what would have happened if I put in the full amount of priming sugar.After weeks of waiting, I ended up frustrated, covered in cider, and left with a pretty useless batch. I also have the Red Tart Cherry to make, but at this point I'm not even sure I will bother. I'd rather fail trying to be creative with my own recipe than fail just following instructions.I understand that I am an amateur, but there are clearly some flaws.

Gave this as a gift to my dad, and the first batch was finished a few weeks ago. It was easy to set up and the regular recipe made a very dry cider (my parents likened it more to champagne than most commercially available hard ciders). They like it though, and are excited to try tweaking the recipe more.

We gave this as a gift to friends for Christmas. I love that it comes with virtually everything you need (aside from apple juice), including bottles. Our friends are going to start using it next week, so I can update this review once they use it. However it was a great gift to give, looks great, and provides all materials needed to brew hard cider. My husband loved it so much that he wants us to buy one for ourselves now, too!

Cheap plastic for the unit and spout and stand worthless can not even clean it safely as it's not even top rack dishwasher safe :( Wish I had immediately returned it

Customer service was terrific, I had an issue, and it was resolved instantly. Also, I went directly to the manufacturer regarding my issue. Thank you and your team for providing excellent assistance.

Very easy to use, set up and brew cider. The step by step instructions were very easy to follow. This was the first time I had made cider and it came out great!