Beginner - wanting to start with All-Grain?

[RyPA]

Since the extract equipment can also be used for all grain, I'd just buy a larger kettle that is suitable for all grain (10 gallon+). This way nothing goes to waste, and you can get a little experience with brewing extract before jumping into all grain. When you are ready for AG, buy or build a 10 gallon mash tun and you're pretty much good to go. I personally do not use a hot liquor tank, so I'd say this is not required.

I recently started AG and am no expert, but at a high level, the general steps for mashing are not that complicated but you do need to be mindful of temperatures and water volume. I am not yet experienced enough to make my own recipes so I buy recipe kits. I am now prepping for a brew day next weekend and am going to do water adjustments for the first time, in hopes of improving the beer. Good luck

 

[Maitiss]

Made an account to give my reply after browsing these forums for the first time ever.
I've currently done 5 batches, my first ones ever. Youtube algo just suggested me a brewing video out of the blue some months ago, and I wanted to start this hobby. I went with all grain right away, and feel like it was a good choise. I felt like I had already spent some time researching and watching videos, that going extract would be lazy or something. For the first three I just found some recipe PDFs online, scaled them to my system and went with that. Last two I used brewfather and played around with the recipes quite a lot. Nice and interesting a hobby, this is!

I had doubts and still do about one thing though: 5 gal batch is way too big to start with. 9-10 L (around 2.5 gal) batches are nice, because that yields a perfect amount of .33 L bottles of beer (a nice 24 pack, or almost that). Don't want to bottle any more at once and going for 1 gal or less feels a bit too little. If you have a large family, go bigger for sure, but most people don't have a huge family to share the beer with.