Meant to say, the Woodforde's beer kits are pretty good and easy to brew when starting out.
As said, get a fermentation bucket or two and also consider how you want to store the beer once it's ready.
You can bottle it, but will need a load of bottles and it's a real faff. If you can't be bothered with that, get a pressure barrel.
I would be very careful to sanitise all the kit, as, looking back, that's probably what went wrong with my first few kits. I'd actually recommend using something like Starsan, which doesn't impact the flavour of the beer, so no need to rise it. This means you can make sure everything is well coated until the point that you add the ingredients. If you use chlorine based sanitisers the beer will taste like TCP unless you rinse every trace of it away.
Also, don't give it excessive heat when fermenting. You don't need to put it in the airing cupboard! Room temperature in a centrally heated house is fine.
Also, when the instructions say fermentation will be done in a week, at least double that.
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