Hello!

[mgoblue06]

Just received a Northern Brewer brewery in a box for Christmas. My aunt has been brewing for a little over a year and I have wanted to start doing it, voila! Merry Christmas to me! Haha, anyway after grabbing a couple books (extreme brewing, and a how to home brew all grain book) I am excited to start.

For equipment I have picked up the deluxe brewery in a box with wheat extract kit, and luckily for me I have a buddy that owns a scrap yard and picked up a 15-16 gallon stainless pot with lid as well as 2 15 gallon kegs for my all grain setup. Looking at the thread with everyone's "units" has me drooling! Also picked up a future fermentation fridge or keg fridge from craigslist locally for 25 buck!

Goals are in a year to be legging and brewing ten gallon batches to share with my friends and family.

Every search on google always leads me here!

Look forward to meeting all fellow brewers!

 

[inhousebrew]

Wow! If you have 2 fifteen gallon kegs for all grain, a 15 gallon kettle and a fermentation chamber you are pretty much on your way to your year end goal I'd say.

Talk about jumping in off the deep end, I like it.

 

[mgoblue06]

Wow! If you have 2 fifteen gallon kegs for all grain, a 15 gallon kettle and a fermentation chamber you are pretty much on your way to your year end goal I'd say.

Talk about jumping in off the deep end, I like it.

Go big or go home is always my motto, haha Plus being able to barter beer for those kegs/pot plus him welding the stainless accessories for me is a big help! I have a water pump at home that came out of a hot tub, not sure about that yet, but I'm sure if I search his yard for a day I can find a couple pumps that will work for a RIMS or HERMS system. Too much too soon? Haha

 

[inhousebrew]

Go big or go home is always my motto, haha Plus being able to barter beer for those kegs/pot plus him welding the stainless accessories for me is a big help! I have a water pump at home that came out of a hot tub, not sure about that yet, but I'm sure if I search his yard for a day I can find a couple pumps that will work for a RIMS or HERMS system. Too much too soon? Haha

No such thing as too much too soon. But you need to make sure they are pumps that are food grade and work up to boiling temps. Not a lot are.