About a month ago, I picked up a basic brewing kit from rebelbrewer.com. It included
- 6.5 Gallon Fermenter Bucket with drilled and grommeted lid
- 6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket with spigot
- Three Piece Airlock
- Floating Thermometer
- 24" Racking Cane
- 4 ft of Transfer Tubing
- Tubing Clamp
- Spring Action Bottle Filler
- Twin Lever Deluxe Bottle Capper
- 144 (approx.) Bottle Caps to get you started
- 18" Heat Resistant Brew Spoon
- Bottle Brush
- Instruction Book
Most of this stuff is just what the doctor ordered, but I'd recommend a few changes to anyone looking to pick this up.
- Forget the floating thermometer, and get a good Polder probe thermometer off Amazon. It's useful for all kinds of other stuff. I've had mine for years, and it kicks the crap out of that floating thing.
- Get a couple of extra bottle fillers. If one should happen to clog up during bottling, it's much easier to swap them out than to deal with cleaning in the middle everything.
- Go ahead and get an extra fermenter bucket. It doubles your capacity for about $15. This is important - If you're like me, you're going to end up giving away about 80% of your first batch. This way your friends can actually try a couple of beers, and you'll have more than a six pack left.
- The instruction book is bogus. Get Palmer's How to Brew. It got me started, and it's still laying the science on me. Because Science: It works, bitches.
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