So far, I've made an apple wine and am halfway through a plum wine, all more or less done from scratch.
I'm primarily, however, a beer enthusiast, and long to get into that. The fermentation, bottling, racking etc processes are all easy to me - the difficult part is the mashing.
I'd like to do all-grain mashing (The BIAB process looks good, there I basically do everything in the same pot, right?), since fermenting malt extract seems a bit, well, pointless. I like to at least have the illusion of control over the result of my beer.
So, I've got MOST of the necessary equipment - Erlenmeyer flask, home-made stirplate, a bucket (currently used, but it'll be free soon), 2 5-gallon BetterBottles, 2 and 5-liter jugs, hydrometer, etc. All I really need (apart from beer yeast, hops and malt) is a big pot, perhaps a malt grinder. I figure I need as large a pot as 30l to do all-grain mashing?
As it happens I'm a real ale (darker, and red, in particular) fan, as far as I can understand, those are comparatively simple to make - a few recipes to look at would be nice.
Thanks for any input, making beer seems a good deal more difficult or at least involved, than making wine...
I'm primarily, however, a beer enthusiast, and long to get into that. The fermentation, bottling, racking etc processes are all easy to me - the difficult part is the mashing.
I'd like to do all-grain mashing (The BIAB process looks good, there I basically do everything in the same pot, right?), since fermenting malt extract seems a bit, well, pointless. I like to at least have the illusion of control over the result of my beer.
So, I've got MOST of the necessary equipment - Erlenmeyer flask, home-made stirplate, a bucket (currently used, but it'll be free soon), 2 5-gallon BetterBottles, 2 and 5-liter jugs, hydrometer, etc. All I really need (apart from beer yeast, hops and malt) is a big pot, perhaps a malt grinder. I figure I need as large a pot as 30l to do all-grain mashing?
As it happens I'm a real ale (darker, and red, in particular) fan, as far as I can understand, those are comparatively simple to make - a few recipes to look at would be nice.
Thanks for any input, making beer seems a good deal more difficult or at least involved, than making wine...