So my fiancé, who now loves brewing as much as I do, suggests that we try to perfect one style of beer before moving on to another style in order to improve consistency and the overall end results. I was planning on trying a different style each time to get a more broad understanding of each style of beer hopefully. Does anyone have any input or recommendations on this from their own experience when they first began to brew. We r def hooked, so no matter what we r gonna constantly brew and feed our thirsty friends. Thank you.
My recommendation is to move up the wedding day. She’s a keeper!
All joking aside my best advise for you is to control fermentation temperature. An old freezer and a cheap inkbird temp controller is a great start. You can go in all sorts of directions with regards to equipment.
What I’ve learned along the way is
Control fermentation
Treat your yeast with care.
Limit or better yet eliminate exposure to air post fermentation.
Keg over bottling except for special beers you want to bottle age.
Make sure you develop great cleaning and sanitation practices.
Buy a mill so you can control your grain crush.
Learn to develop and create your own recipes.
Learn your system and know what your efficiencies are and improve them until you can repeat things the same way every time.
Don’t go crazy buying hot side gear until you know what size batches you want, that may take some time.
Buy used gear whenever possible, it’ll save you a ton of cash.
Join a brew club and read as much as you can.
Take really good notes.
Making beer can be simple or complex. Your equipment can be simple or complex. I have friends with very simple equipment that make great beers and a few friends that have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and make crappy beer. It’s not the money invested that makes a great brewer it’s attention to detail and constant process improvements.
I had to laugh at this thread, you’ve jumped into the deep end quickly [emoji474].