Reddit reviews ExcelSteel 514 Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Lid, 35 quarts, Silver
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Durable, heavy duty stainless steelDishwasher safeEncapsulated base enhances even heat distributionClassic satin finishProfessional handles and knob
I AM NOT AN EXPERT MANY PEOPLE KNOW FAR MORE THEN I DO, MAYBE THEY WILL INTERJECT IF I AM WRONG
Alright, let me guide you away from the starter kit. It has helped me know what I'm doing, and develop my process, thinking about and acquiring the pieces I would need. Let's say to start off with you just are busting to brew! Can't contain it anymore!
Start off with these three things
This Pot
This Cooker
-and I know it's not prime shipping but one of these
Plastic Carboys for $25.53 CDN with airlock and stopper
alright so baring the cost of shipping from AiH, plus a propane tank, siphon/tubing, and sanitizer. your looking at a cool $149.25 CDN for a bare bones basic kit for extract brewing.
Now you get a little more fancy, and throw in
This Auto Siphon
this brew in a bag
and this thermometer
and you right around $210 CDN minus a big ass spoon and bottling bucket that would be all you need to do all grain brewing from a bare bones stand point (ok baring ingredients also) but I think you could get off cheaper.. or at least better gear for the same money. especially since the kit you picked out doesn't even have a propane burner or pot this is a hell of a steal. You could go all out, buying a mini fridge and temperature controller for fermentation, an immersion chiller so your not icing down your beer post boil in a bathtub, custom mash paddles, etc.
What I got mad about when I started brewing was how much people were charging for what amounted too a couple of buckets, airlocks, benchcappers, and some "literature". When if you pieced it out it was more like price gauging because I did't know what I was doing.
Either way you go about it, welcome to paradise! Just wait till everyone starts rolling their eyes, when you bring up beer so you seek out friends that brew and you all start your big group beer tastings, I ♥ my beer buddies.
TL;DR : Here's an arguably better (and more utilized) "starter kits" of sorts for a basic bare bones set up. From a newly all grain brewer in a college apt
You're right... after looking around the best deal I could find was an 8.75 gallon stainless steel pot for $75 (with free shipping if you have amazin's prime deal).
> That's how you make beer.
Nah, I use one of these and wait until everything's fermented before putting it in a keg