Have Your Own Home Beer Brewery
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So you want to become part of the ancient tradition of beer brewing, a craft that was practiced even during the time of the ancient Sumerians? Maybe some of your friends have their own home beer brewery? Or one of your family members? Or you read something about it and found it so interesting that you want to start yourself? There can be many reasons to start your own home beer brewery, and surprisingly enough, it isn’t all that difficult. You will need some equipment before you can start but you can get those easy in a home brew store or on the internet.
What do you need for your home beer brewery?
For setting up your own home beer brewery you need the following;
- five gallon glass bottle
- plastic bottling bucket
- siphon hose (six feet long)
- raking cane
- airlock
- or a home beer brewing kit that contains the above
- glass bottles
- a bottle capper
- a large pot
- a thermometer
- and a long spoon for stirring are the basics.
A large, five gallon glass bottle is the first thing you need for your home beer brewery. These bottles can often be bought at wine-making supply stores, and aren’t usually too expensive. You may be tempted to buy a plastic one, but don’t! For beer brewing, it must be made of glass. The bulk of the fermenting process will take place in this container, and you will also need a funnel for transferring the liquid into it.
A five gallon, food-grade plastic bottling bucket is the next item on your list of supplies. Make sure it has a lid. Fortunately, you can often find these buckets at restaurants, they will usually let you have them for free. Just take it home and clean it very well. If you don’t have a restaurant nearby that has these types of buckets, again check with your local restaurant supply store or wine-making supply store.
The next item on the list to start your own home beer brewery is a siphon hose, which is nothing more than plastic tubing. Make sure it’s at least six feet long, as you’ll be using it to transfer the beer from the fermentation bottle into the plastic bottling bucket, so it can then be placed into individual bottles. You also need a raking cane which is essential. It attaches to the siphon hose and makes transferring the beer from container to container much easier.
The last item you’ll need for your home beer brewery is an airlock. Once again, these can be purchased at your local brewery-supply store. The airlock is essentially a rubber stopper with a plastic piece attached to it that allows the carbon dioxide to escape while keeping air and contamination out. The stopper should fit into the opening of your glass bottle. Without the airlock, your beer would end up turning into vinegar.
A brewing kit can consist of all of the above, sometimes it is cheaper to buy a complete home beer brewery kit, but if you already own some of the supplies you only have to buy what you do need.
You also need any type of glass bottles that will do for storing your home made beer, once it’s done fermenting. It is recommended that you avoid using the type with twist-off caps, however. They can let air get to your beer, which will ruin it.
Find a pot as large as you can find, you will need it for boiling the water, hops and other ingredients (the wort). Ideally, it would hold at least three gallons of liquid with a lot of extra room. Either stainless steel or enameled pots are fine.
The final items to complete your home beer brewery are a bottle capper to securely attach caps to your bottles, a thermometer that with a range that, at the very least, goes from 40 to 150 degrees F (4 to 65degrees C), and a spoon with a very long handle for stirring the boiling wort.
That is all the equipment you need for your own home beer brewery, after that get your ingredients, your recipe and your good to go.
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