Anything else?

Discussion on brewing beer from malt extract, hops, and yeast.
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DDoe
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Anything else?

Post by DDoe » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:12 pm

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.

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Re: Anything else?

Post by bitter_dave » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:35 pm

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?

Post by guypettigrew » Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:17 pm

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?

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Re: Anything else?

Post by WalesAles » Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:04 pm

guypettigrew wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:17 pm
And what's the turkey baster for?

Guy
Guy,
It is used to Baste Turkeys! :shock:

Also used for filling the trial jar.
And putting beer on the sugar in the saucepan when batch priming.

WA

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Re: Anything else?

Post by f00b4r » Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:36 pm

- 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.

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Re: Anything else?

Post by guypettigrew » Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:46 pm

WalesAles wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:04 pm
guypettigrew wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:17 pm
And what's the turkey baster for?

Guy
Guy,
It is used to Baste Turkeys! :shock:

Also used for filling the trial jar.
And putting beer on the sugar in the saucepan when batch priming.

WA
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

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