I'm about to order some stuff to make our first 5L extract beer. Below is a list of things I have or am going to order, can you think of anything else we will need?
Syphon
Large spoon/mash paddle
Campden tablets
Yeast
Straining/steeping/grain bag
DME - for yeast starter & beer
Hops
Crushed crystal malt
Crushed caraPils/Dextrine malt
Turkey baster
Star-san
Trial jar
Hydrometer
Thermometer
5L bucket & lid
10L bucket & lid
Air lock
Pot for boiling wort
Crown caps
Crown capper
Bottles
Cleaning & sanitising powder
Thank you.
Anything else?
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Re: Anything else?
Looks like a thorough list to me. You may want to use sugar for priming, but you can just use regular sugar from the supermarket for this.
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Re: Anything else?
Looks good. If you're using dried yeast you won't need to make a starter, which makes life easier.
Also, do you need both a 5L and 10L bucket? And what's the turkey baster for?
Guy
Also, do you need both a 5L and 10L bucket? And what's the turkey baster for?
Guy
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Re: Anything else?
Guy,
It is used to Baste Turkeys!
Also used for filling the trial jar.
And putting beer on the sugar in the saucepan when batch priming.
WA
Re: Anything else?
- personally I would get taps for the buckets, it makes it a lot easier and you will not need the siphon or turkey baster. I would the add a bottling wand to attach to the tap, it makes life much easier come bottling time.
- use dry yeast to start with, it will make your life a lot easier for the first beer and allow you to focus on other things.
- at that batch size you can probably get away with just using a large stainless steel cooking spoon if you have one.
- the bench cappers are generally much better than the hand ones, although there is one brand of hand capper that is meant to be good
- most people get bottles for free from drinking/friends/pubs, but this might not be possible at the moment
- you can use the non perfumed oxi cleaners for cleaning if you water is not too hard and you want to not lay out too much money to start with.
- use dry yeast to start with, it will make your life a lot easier for the first beer and allow you to focus on other things.
- at that batch size you can probably get away with just using a large stainless steel cooking spoon if you have one.
- the bench cappers are generally much better than the hand ones, although there is one brand of hand capper that is meant to be good
- most people get bottles for free from drinking/friends/pubs, but this might not be possible at the moment
- you can use the non perfumed oxi cleaners for cleaning if you water is not too hard and you want to not lay out too much money to start with.
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Re: Anything else?
Of course, silly me. Turkey bitter, a well known exotic beer!
Seriously, though; I wouldn't take beer from the fermenter into a trial jar to see how it's doing. I'd sanitise the hydrometer and drop it
into the beer.
As to using it to get beer into a saucepan to dissolve the priming sugar? A tiny bit of water would be better.
Apologies WA, not dis-ing you or anything. I just think the less mucking about with the beer, especially at a 5 litre volume, the better.
Guy