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What Is Advanced Home Brewing Equipment?
Most home brewers start off small, which is sensible. Beginning with just the minimum basic equipment needed to make homemade Beers makes a great deal of sense. Not only does it keep the investment to a minimum, it also makes the whole process simpler, which is a blessing for the beginner. However, once the former beginner gets the experience and confidence that he is capable of making Good Beer at home, he wants to expand his horizons.
Since the aim of Home Brewing is to have fun while making beers to suit your tastes, limiting your abilities to produce beers can bring in an element of boredom into something that should be fun. The solution is to go in for advanced home brewing equipment. This will provide the home brewer with the equipment he needs to experiment and create beers of a wide range of flavors, including all grain beer, and continue to explore the immense possibilities that home brewing has to offer.
A word of caution. Beginners are often tempted to take a short cut and invest in advanced home brewing equipment at the outset. As mentioned above this can lead to a range of mistakes and wastage of money that can ruin the experience and put people off home brewing. Beginners should start with home brewing starter equipment and either gradually build up to advanced home brewing equipment or selloff their old starting kits and invest in a ready made advanced home brewing equipment package.
What an Advanced Home Brewing Equipment Package Consists of
There are many opinions on what is essential and what is not in advanced home brewing equipment. What is given below are the items that are generally accepted as being necessary to advanced home brewing. If you are going in for advanced home brewing equipment it is presumed that you have knowledge and experience about home brewing so do not hesitate to add or subtract from this list as you see fit.
Ready made advanced home Brewing Equipment Kits are available and while these make getting all you need easy, they often contain items you already may have and so may end up paying for things you do not need. It is more time consuming but usually more economical to buy only the advanced home brewing equipment you need.
One 6 gallon glass jar for primary fermentation
One 5 gallon glass jar for the secondary fermentation process
Nylon bottle brushes for cleaning the jars
One 6.5 gallon bottling bucket with a tight lid and spigot at the base
One plastic air lock with a drilled rubber stopper for forming a tight seal
One pump of the auto siphon type
A long stemmed alcohol filled thermometer
A triple scale hydrometer
A large nylon mesh grain bag
Three disposable hop socks
At least 10 feet of food grade plastic tubing
One spring loaded bottling filler
One double lever bottle capper (preferably with a magnet).
Bottle and caps
Nylon bottle cleaning brushes
These are the basics of advanced home brewing equipment. You can add on to this list based on your experience and brewing plans.
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