Home brewing can be a fun experience that can even grow to be your own business. In fact, many of the renowned breweries you know today, started small in a kitchen and ended up being empires. Brewing beer is a complicated process if you’re a beginner because beer is delicate and requires preciseness and dedication. But, once you get a grip of the basics and acquire the right equipment, beer brewing will be as easy for you as ABC.
Beer Brewing Kit
The beer kit contains pale malt enhancer, ale yeast, finishing hops and an instruction paper. The kit has everything you need to add to your beer in one place so that you don’t go around looking for ingredients. The malt enhancer, for instance, gives the beer a more intense flavour and full body. With the malt enhancer, you’ll give your beer a better taste.
The beer yeast is a classic. Every beer you know and love contains yeast as do some wines and your favourite dough recipes. The yeast is what causes carbonation and what creates the alcohol in the beer. The finishing hops (also known as aroma hops) are being added to the beer during the boiling and their main role is to give the beer a stronger aroma, taste and flavour. There are different types of hops and you can choose according to the flavour you want to achieve.
Electric Grain Mill
Every beer brewer should have an electric grain mill at hand. It comes in handy for crushing grain at home and making fresh beer. Grains are actually a key ingredient in beer making. Everything revolves around grains. So, the grain mill is an important piece of home brewing equipment and part of the home brewing systems. This small motorized tool is easy to use, adjustable and crushes grains in seconds. It has two big rollers incorporated and you can set the speed on your own.
Since you’re decisive about making beer by yourself, why not crush grains by yourself too? That way the process will be more authentic. Some grain mills even come with a bamboo mounting board that adds to the authenticity and helps keep the mill secure. After all, what would home brewing systems be without all the essential tools for beer making?
Heating and Cooling Temperature Controller
Temperature plays a big role in how your beer turns out to be. You need to get and maintain the temperature right during the process because otherwise, your beer will be neither good tasting nor of high quality. The best way to monitor the beer temperature is by getting a temperature controller.
Temperature controllers nowadays work with Wi-Fi and support both IOS and Android. You can monitor the temperature at any given moment and connect heating and cooling devices at the same time. There’s even a possibility to set an alarm for the temperature limit no matter if it’s for high or low temperature. All you need to do is plug in the controller and enjoy its simplicity. To be honest, quality beer is too valuable for you to not play it safe.
A Couple of Water Filters
Next up on the list is cartridge water filters. The last thing you want to add to your beer is dirty and contaminated water. Water filters have the power to remove particles, pollutants and chemicals from the water leaving it 100% clean and ready to use. Cartridge water filters remove dissolved metals and have bacteriostatic properties which result in properly sanitized water. You can also go for the ceramic cartridge system. The ceramic layer filters solids and microorganisms while the activated carbon inside absorbs each and every organic chemical, taste, odour and chlorine.
Beer is delicate and even the slightest trace of dirt or bacteria can spoil it. It doesn’t take much for your effort to go in vain. But, with the right brewing equipment, you can minimize the chances of that happening.
A Syphon and a Clip
The syphon is a simple tool that allows you to transfer beer from one container to another using different pressure. There are small and large syphons depending on the size of the container you’re emptying. Home brewing systems can’t go without a syphon. It helps transfer the beer without exposing it to a lot of oxygen during the process and without creating a mess – a small rubber hose that does so much. You can also get syphon clips that allow you to clip the syphon onto the container you’re transferring from. It’s a lot easier that way.
A Temperature Sensor
As I mentioned before, beer brewing is a process that needs to be closely monitored. That’s the only way to produce beer that looks amazing and tastes even better. For that reason, a temperature sensor or a thermometer is another must-have tool. The thermometer has a digital display screen along with a Teflon wire and stainless steel probe that goes into the water and measures the temperature. It works with batteries and it’s really easy to get a hold of.
Thanks to the thermometer you’ll have full control over the brewing process and you’ll be able to create the perfect brewing conditions so that later the beer tastes heavenly. The ingredients are not the only thing that contributes to the taste of the beer. The process plays a big role too.
A Brush for the Bottles
Since beer is so delicate and perfect conditions are needed for it to turn out great, you need to pay a lot of attention to hygiene. That means that every tool, piece of equipment or storage container you use needs to be sparkly clean. Dirty equipment equals spoiled beer. So, since the beer bottles are the trickiest to clean, you should get a special brush with a design that allows you to clean the bottles perfectly without putting much effort into the process. There are a lot of different types of bottle brushes and you should pick the one you think will be the most effective in cleaning.
A Little Bit Of Taste 