Roasting your own coffee at home gives you coffee that is not bitter. You buy green coffee beans from Craig at Andrews Green Beans in Toronto, or this place in Toronto. It is easy to do. Here are a few photo’s of how we do it.
Paddock Wood Brewing Supplies made a EasyBrew Growler Porter kit and this is about my first experiance brewing beer on the stovetop. The link is to the ReadyBrew kit, a 23 litre box of beer ready to pour into the glass carboy and pitch the yeast into. This is the other way of brewing. The Easy Brew instructions are in the bag and here on the website.
Start by breaking the bag of food inside the yeast package.
The yeast I used is a 1275
The package before it grows.
Everything is to be clean so I use this stuff.
Spraying the pot with the sanitizer.
Here is the kit, everything in a bag.
Pour 3 litres of water into a clean pot and steep for 30 minutes at 60 C (140 F).
My batch was 10 F degree’s above on the temperature at the end of the steep, so I trimmed 5 minutes from the steeping time.
Quick rinse of the bag.
In goes the DME or Dried Malt Extract.
The rest of the water was cooling outside since I smaked the yeast.
Poured a few litres of the cold water into the plastic primary fermenter first then in goes the stuff from the stove.
Darrell and Vicky made up a lightly hopped wheat beer, and added a can of Oregon R Cherry
Puree to the primary fermenter. 
The first day it gave off a strong
something-died-in-the-back-of-the-fridge
smell, but when it went in the
secondary, all was well, and the report is that it tastes great too!