Homebrewing in the UK

Are you planning on doing extract or all grain? That kit is for standard 5 gallon batches. If all grain how do you plan to boil 20+L?

Have you looked at the 1 gal all grain beginner kits? Brooklyn Brew Shop ect. They’re about £35/£40. Can do them on your kitchen hob. Dip your toe to start. Just buy a bucket from Wilko for about a tenner it you want to scale up in the future.

 

Bucket looks fine. Hydrometer and thermometer good. Dunno about screwtop PET bottles - I've always instinctively gone for glass, but I couldn't definitively tell you why. You'll need something to boil in.

IMHO you don't need fancy kit to make basically decent beer. You should be good so long as you follow a sensible recipe, sanitize properly, and make sure your fermentation is within the temperature range for the yeast that you're using (I wanted to say "control your fermentation temperature", but if that's not an option then you just have to pick yeast that will work with the temperatures that you've got).

 

Yeah, I've got friends who started out with those and they seem to like them. The downside is that if it works then you've only got about eight pints. The up side is that if it doesn't work then you've also only got about eight pints.

 

Less than that with a heavy dry hop and frequent gravity samples.

These partial mash kits aren’t a bad place to start if you’re set on netting a full batch size for your efforts. There’s a similar beginner kit too but you’d need to add on a hydrometer and thermometer.

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product-category/ingredients/recipes/mini-mash-extract-grain-kits/

 

It looks fine I’d personally try and get some StarSan as it makes sanitation very simple but the one you get with the kit will be fine. The PET bottles are absolutely fine for your first time and I’d just go with a couple of kits before you look to do any partial mash or all grain options. These will produce good beers and you’ll be very impressed with how easy it all is. http://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/beer/kits/muntons-hand-crafted-range/

You can tweak these kits if you want with different yeast or extra hops etc.

I’d grab some carbonation drops for your first time brewing as well it’ll save messing around with spoons of sugar or batch priming in an additional bucket.

 

Looking at the equipment, I have a couple thoughts. The kit includes a fermenting bucket, but not a bottling bucket with a spigot. Therefore, you will have to siphon directly from the fermentation bucket (where all the trub, spent hops, dead yeast is) into bottles. Personally, I think it would be a pain to try and bottle this way...but it is doable. I much prefer to transfer to a bottling bucket, add my priming sugar, and then bottle. You can make quality beer with any sanitized equipment, so that's not the issue. You could always try a batch with this equipment, and then add the additional bucket later. Most homebrewers have a sh!t ton of glass bottles around after a while. So personally, the PET bottles here don't add any value for me. However, it won't hurt your beer. You could probably find a similar kit cheaper (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Basic-Equi...=1524412397&sr=8-21&keywords=beer+brewing+kit) but it might not be exactly the same. Final note, I personally will never use a regular siphon again after I discovered the auto siphon about 15 years ago. One pump and everything flows.
I agree with the others that if you buy a very basic set like this, then try a kit or two before moving to partial grain and then full grain. The kits should make decent beer and your process will be much easier.
Last tip...if you want even the most basic beers to come out very good, try to make sure your ingredients are not old/stale and keep an eye on your fermentation temperatures.

 

Not for many years, since I didn't want to deal with removing the label to reuse the bottles. Plus I just stopped caring about that sort of thing. I don't name my beer either, so maybe I'm just dull. I just annotate the style and ABV on the bottle cap with a sharpie.
The easiest way to label is probably with sheets of mailing labels run through your printer. I know people get much fancier than that and do professional looking labels, but you would have to purchase more expensive specialty labels for that.