Yes, there is a 12 step program:
Step 1: get a starter kit with an extract recipe kit. Brew a batch on your stove using the directions and sanitizer that came with the kit.
Step 2: Realize that the directions and sanitizer that came with the kit suck. Throw them out, replace them and give it another go.
Step 3: Learn that there are benefits to a full boil. Get yourself a turkey fryer and start brewing outside.
Step 4: Bottling sucks. Build yourself a kegerator and buy a bunch more equipment
Step 5: Learn about the benefits of chilling your wort rapidly prior to pitching your yeast. Buy a wort chiller.
Step 6: Yeast health; temp control, pitching rate, aeration....buy a ferm chamber, yeast starter kit and aeration kit
Step 7: All-grain transition. Buy a bunch of new gear and brew a batch with your tap water
Step 8: The batch you brewed with tap water sucks. Figure out why, fix it and brew another batch
Step 9: Treated water for chlorine/chloramine and the next batch is better. But, what is all this about mash PH and adding minerals to RO water?
Step 10: Build RO water specific to the style you are brewing and dial in your PH.
Step 11: Tired of brewing outside. Time to go electric and move back indoors. Buy some more gear and make it happen
Step 12: enjoy your homebrew
