Sunday, January 23, 2011

Home brewing equipment

Now, if you are interesting in starting your own home-brewery, you will need a basic set of equipment.

Starting at the beginning, you need:

  • 1 three gallon pot to boil your malt and hop concoction.
  • A Ladle to stir
  • Fermentation bucket
  • Airlock
  • Sanitation Solution. I recommend One Step Oxygen based powder.
These items are needed for the first step.

After the fermentation period you will need:
  • 48 bottles
  • Either a spigot on your bucket or a siphon/racking tube.
  • Bottle caps
  • Capping tool
One final tip:
Before everything, sanitize the fermentation bucket, and when ready to bottle, sanitize all bottles and caps.

This will prevent your yeast from cannibalizing causing explosive beers.

For a little extra, you can get a glass carboy, which is great for secondary fermentation.

This Kit provides everything you need to get started, or if you decide you want to order all your pieces of equipment separately, you can.

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