Hello from South Carolina

[r270ba]

What's up guys and gals! Excited to be posting on here from Upstate South Carolina.

Never made beer before but I have been studying it for several months now. Is it crazy to start with all grain brewing from the start? I am a guy who likes to do it right if I'm going to do it. I don't want to buy Equipment several times in the first several months because I want to "upgrade".

Thoughts?

 

[Roadie]

That's exactly how I started - I went straight to all grain electric and also kegged right from the start. As I started with my dream system there isn't much to upgrade... ever. It's worked out for me - beer is good, fun brewing, no down side.

 

[r270ba]

Would that be e-hrms?

 

[Cyclman]

It adds some complexity to your first brewday, but it is certainly feasible. Welcome to the hobby, and the group, from CO

 

[ulnpiper]

I went straight to all grain and kegging. Have bottled a couple of batches, but only when I wanted it to be more portable.

All in including a side by side fridge from craigs list turned into dual 2 tap keggerator and fermentation chamber, propane burner, 2 kegs, 2 perlick ss faucets, 16 gal brew kettle/hlt, one 10 Gal igloo cooler mash tun, rib cage style immersion chiller, etc. ran about $1,200 total.

I read pretty much everything I could (HBT from top to bottom over about 3 months) and weighed the pros/cons of different methods for each stage of the process and selected what I thought would work best for me. So far so good. Drinking batch #11 now and tasting pretty good

Try to start as simply as possible. It's easy to get carried away with all the bells and whistles. Focus on getting a basic process that works, then you can refine it and add conveniences as you go.

Two key areas to focus are temperature of mashing and temperature of fermentation. If you get those right, most of the rest will take care of itself.

-g

 

[Roadie]

Would that be e-hrms?

In my case yes.

 

[r270ba]

Great guys and thanks. I don't think I will jump right into the e-hrms but was looking to do gravity feed or even a Pump style system as I have the expertise with pumps and such.

What I don't want to do is lose any part of the learning process by skipping over to more fancy Equipment. If I understand the theory though that has never set me wrong on any of my other adventures.

Is going hrms bypassing any of the process I need to understand manually?

 

[r270ba]

Sorry just noticed Auto correct changed everything to Hrms. Herms was what I meant.