mollybloom
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Hey y'all--I'd love to get some help picking out a couple of brewing-related birthday gifts for my husband. Apologies in advance, because I know that I am getting a lot of the terminology not quite right.
Some background: we live in a verrry tiny NYC apartment, so my husband brews 1 gallon batches. He does all-grain brewing and has been at it for about a year. (Homebrew starter kit was his birthday gift last year, actually, and he's been really into it ever since.)
We have all of the basic supplies that he needs (several big pots, two glass carboys, auto-siphon, racking cane, lots of bottles & caps & capper), so I'd like to get him a few more "advanced" things that might make the process easier and more fun. Budget is $100-200, would be fine to buy one big thing or a couple of smaller things.
He asked his parents for some kind of small mill (?) for his birthday, so that's out, but that's along the lines of what I'm thinking.
I know he has mentioned wanting a hydrometer, so any recommendations for a good one of those would be great.
He had also mentioned having trouble keeping his primary (?) at the right temperature, so is there anything I could buy to help with that? Preferably something small--again, tiny NYC apartment.
Any ideas, and especially links, would be great! I found a post like this from like 2009, but all the links were gone, so it wasn't too helpful. Thanks in advance!!
Some background: we live in a verrry tiny NYC apartment, so my husband brews 1 gallon batches. He does all-grain brewing and has been at it for about a year. (Homebrew starter kit was his birthday gift last year, actually, and he's been really into it ever since.)
We have all of the basic supplies that he needs (several big pots, two glass carboys, auto-siphon, racking cane, lots of bottles & caps & capper), so I'd like to get him a few more "advanced" things that might make the process easier and more fun. Budget is $100-200, would be fine to buy one big thing or a couple of smaller things.
He asked his parents for some kind of small mill (?) for his birthday, so that's out, but that's along the lines of what I'm thinking.
I know he has mentioned wanting a hydrometer, so any recommendations for a good one of those would be great.
He had also mentioned having trouble keeping his primary (?) at the right temperature, so is there anything I could buy to help with that? Preferably something small--again, tiny NYC apartment.
Any ideas, and especially links, would be great! I found a post like this from like 2009, but all the links were gone, so it wasn't too helpful. Thanks in advance!!