Hi everyone, I'm an aspiring home brewer from Illinois. I hardly know anything about brewing, with the exception of the hours I have spent trying to read up online, and don't personally know anyone else who home brews. But I love good beer and so I'd really like to give it a try.
Since I'm so new I have a couple questions to get started with and I'm sure I'll have many more along the way. First of all, I don't have any equipment so I have been trying to find a good starter kit online. This basic starter kit from Northern Brewer (http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/review/product/list/id/5336/category/4/) seems like it has pretty much everything I need and is a reasonable price. What do you guys think of that kit? Also sort of related to this, does it make a difference in terms of the taste of the beer if the fermenting bucket is plastic compared to a glass carboy?
Next, from what I have read it seems like the best bet initially would be to use an extract kit because it sounds like it simplifies the process at least a little. For my first beer I'd really like to try to make a dunkelweizen. I see that Northern Brewer has a dunkelweizen extract kit (http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/dunkelweizen-extract-kit.html) are their kits typically good quality? And does anyone else have any suggestions for a different kit I could possibly try?
Thanks in advance for the help and I'm really looking forward to getting started.
Since I'm so new I have a couple questions to get started with and I'm sure I'll have many more along the way. First of all, I don't have any equipment so I have been trying to find a good starter kit online. This basic starter kit from Northern Brewer (http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/review/product/list/id/5336/category/4/) seems like it has pretty much everything I need and is a reasonable price. What do you guys think of that kit? Also sort of related to this, does it make a difference in terms of the taste of the beer if the fermenting bucket is plastic compared to a glass carboy?
Next, from what I have read it seems like the best bet initially would be to use an extract kit because it sounds like it simplifies the process at least a little. For my first beer I'd really like to try to make a dunkelweizen. I see that Northern Brewer has a dunkelweizen extract kit (http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/dunkelweizen-extract-kit.html) are their kits typically good quality? And does anyone else have any suggestions for a different kit I could possibly try?
Thanks in advance for the help and I'm really looking forward to getting started.
