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 | Choosing the right variety of hops for your intended beer style. |
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Homebrewing Equipment
Supplies for Beer making |
A QUICK LISTING OF SOME HARDWARE YOU MAY NEED:
Fermenter with lids, airlocks, bungs etc-A plastic food grade bucket. This is where fermentation takes place and your wort turns into finished beer. Your wort is transferred to this vessel immediately after brewing, and the lid and airlock combination help keep contaminants and bacteria out.
Bottling Bucket -Used in the bottling stage (duh). Corn sugar or other priming sugar is boiled and added to this bucket and mixed in with your fermented beer. It is then transferred from this vessel into bottles.
Brew Pot -This is where your wort will be boiled.
Bottle Filler -Used during the bottling stage. Attached to end of plastic tubing, this has a valve which will allow your beer to flow into bottles when pressed down.
Capper -Used during the bottling stage. Found in many variations, this will firmly seat your caps on the finished bottles of beer.
Hydrometer and jar -Used to take Original and Final Gravity readings.
Siphon Tubing -You will need food-grade tubing to be used when transferring beer from one vessel to another.
Racking Cane -Hard plastic cane that siphon tubing is attached to when siphoning/racking beer.
Auto-Siphon -Wonderful tool that makes siphoning a snap.
A wort chiller can speed your wort cooling!
Wort Chiller -Basically, copper tubing that is wrapped in a coil. This is placed in hot wort to cool it. Cold water is flushed through the tubing, drawing away the heat and cooling your wort.
Glass Carboy -Can be used as a primary fermenter (6 or 6.5 gallon size for a 5 gallon batch) or a secondary fermenter (5 gallon size for a 5 gallon batch). These are impermeable to oxygen. NEVER ADD HOT LIQUIDS TO A GLASS CARBOY OR IT WILL SHATTER!
Bottles and bottlecaps -Generally, you will need 48-54 bottles per 5 gallon batch. Use brown bottles. Make sure you DO NOT use twist-off bottles, as they are hard to cap/seal properly.
Dial Thermometer -Used to take wort temperatures at different phases of brewing.
Burner/Tank -Used if brewing full-wort boils outside, otherwise you can do partial boils on a stovetop.
Some household kitchen items are also helpful:
Melt-resistant spoon -Can be used to stir wort
Whisk -Can be used to aerate wort before yeast pitching
Turkey Baster -Used to take hydrometer readings and squirt sanitizing solution over hard-to-reach-spots
Dedicated Soup pot/growler for yeast starters
Tongs -Helps to remove hot bags used to steep grains or boil hops
Funnels-To transfer liquids when cleaning equipment etc.
A set of Measuring Cups
A set of Measuring Spoons
Scale-Used to measure hops or grain weights. You can find some nice, cheap kitchen scales from these folks.
Pyrex Measuring Cup
Winemaking and beer brewing suppliers - With over 1200 winemaking and beer brewing items in stock, Country Wines is an excellent source for the home wine maker.
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