purechaos
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If I was asked on the street how to start homebrewing, I'm not going to tell them to:
Go out and buy 2 <edit> Kegs <edit>and a 10 gallon Rubbermaid cooler, drill 2 holds in each keg, install valves in both kegs and cooler, and thermometers/sight glasses in both kegs. Then go out and buy 2 turkey fryer kits and 2 tanks of propane. Throw away the pots. The purchase 50 feet of copper refrigerator tubing and the proper fittings and bend around a corny keg (buy some of those as well) Then bring water to 166 degrees in 1 keggle, add that water to your pre-heated cooler MLT, check temp, adjust if necessary. Wait 1 hour, drain into 2nd keggle. Put the rest of the sparge water into the MLT and drain it. Then bring to boil, add hops in 15 minute intervals for a total of 60 minutes. Cool using your chiller to less than 80 degrees, drain to fermenter, add yeast. Then cover fermenter and wait for at least 2 weeks. If the gravity reading is stable for 3 days (do I need to explain gravity? oh, buy a hydrometer) then rack to a keg. Place keg in kegerator or keezer (did you buy or build one of those yet?) and force carb until ready. Then serve beer, allow to come to temp based on style before consuming
thats how i did it :rockin: