Newtobrewing85
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Hi everyone, new here! I’ve brewed beer once with one of the little starter kits and had a good time, came out really good. Since then I’ve been considering brewing on a much larger scale. My wife surprised me and told me she bought me the fermenter from craftabrew for Christmas, the catalyst. I imagine most are familiar with this? I liked it because you can drain all the crap out of the beer while it ferments and it appears to make it insanely easy to bottle which was a PIA in a glass carboy. I had a hell of a time bottling lol.
So she told me and said I was free to buy any brewing setup I wanted to get started. Naturally I started looking at kettles, burners etc. I finally came across the Anvil Foundry and decided to get the 10.5 last night so now I’m really all in on this! I liked the idea of starting on easy stuff and gradually getting more serious.
I won’t be starting with all grain brewing or recipes, kits will be fine for now. So with that said any information I should know with jumping from something so small to so large? 5 gallon brews. So I have the foundry, wort chiller and the thermometer from the old kit plus a capper.
Outside of metal utensils what else should I be looking to have to be able to brew my first 5 gallon batch?
TIA, William.
So she told me and said I was free to buy any brewing setup I wanted to get started. Naturally I started looking at kettles, burners etc. I finally came across the Anvil Foundry and decided to get the 10.5 last night so now I’m really all in on this! I liked the idea of starting on easy stuff and gradually getting more serious.
I won’t be starting with all grain brewing or recipes, kits will be fine for now. So with that said any information I should know with jumping from something so small to so large? 5 gallon brews. So I have the foundry, wort chiller and the thermometer from the old kit plus a capper.
Outside of metal utensils what else should I be looking to have to be able to brew my first 5 gallon batch?
TIA, William.