Tri Clovers: $350
Stainless T's $100
Ball valves: $150
CFC $150
Ported Better Bottles(2): $100
Carboy's(over the years): $100
Keggle: $20 (other 2 were free for various marginally legal reasons.)
Silicone Hose(man this stuff is expensive enough to merit listing) $40
Barbs: ?$100 these things are everywhere and you sure need a lot of them
Weldless Fittings: ?$100
Bottling Wands, Thermometers Etc: ?$150
Refractometer: $30
Crazy electrical experimentation with breaker boxes: ?$200
Electric Elements for various herms, hlt, kettle applications: $70
BCS Control Stuff(ssr's, boxes, temperature probes): $200(i was a beta tester so i had a bit of a savings there)
And then theres all the stuff I can't remember...but yeah, it um, adds up...That total is about $1900 and there is all manner of stuff I have forgotten.
Then again, it does make a lot of beer
and it's a far cheaper hobby than golf which is what I say(my wife taught me this, since I have no idea why anyone would play golf or buy golf equipment). :fro:
I have a habit of just doing a little bit over time, it makes it much more sane, the idea of dropping that much in one hit seems really hard to do, but over time it's fine, it's like buying lunch, you spend $10 a day seems fine, but the idea of dropping $2000 all at once seems insane, but if you ate out every day that's what it would be for a year(btw, i don't so i can afford more brewery bling and what not). The other benefit of doing it slowly, is that if you give beer away to co-workers and what not you find others who have STOPPED brewing, and ineveitably they can be coersed into giving you all their old equipment, i have gotten all kinds of stuff, the best one was the schmidling adjustable mill, my jaw dropped, and i just held my breath until it was in my trunk.
All the emoticons are the result of my kids looking over my shoulder wanting this one, or that one, so what can you do, you just click the button and keep typing...
The bottom line, is for me this hobby is not one done out of frugality(it can be, but then it's not a hobby it's something else)...it's one done cause you feel like doing it. Let go of the guilt, keep to a budget, do what you will, but don't stop brewing, then the guilt will really come on strong, what with all that money spent.