• Nice things to have
• Bottling Items
• Supplies for brew day

Items needed for brewing beer

Suggestions from a beer-brewing friend.

• Mash tun (make your own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY_HZAFJFc)
• Food grade 6 gal+ fermenting bucket with lid/grommeted hole for airlock
• Airlock(s)
• Siphon or racking cane
• 7+gal boil pot
• Secondary fermenter (usually a carboy) with lid/cork with airlock hole
• Quick-read thermometer
• Stir spoon/paddle
• Hydrometer(s)
• Star-san sanitizer
• Wort chiller (make your own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNB9zBIcvQ
• Burner (eventually)
  

Nice things to have

(approximate relative order of importance):

• Digital scale
• Funnel
• Sponges/rags/towels
• Nylon straining sack(s)
• Extra tubing
• Carboy handle and/or carry straps
• Carboy brush
• Carboy drying stand
• Homebrew software (e.g. Brewsmith, BeerTools Pro)
• Wine thief
• Refractometer
• Yeast starter kit (stirplate, magnets, and flask)
• Fermenter lid opener
• Hop grinder
• Grain crusher (cereal killer)
• Kegging system
  

Bottling Items

• Bottle sanitizer pump
• Priming sugar
• Bottles
• Capper
• Caps
• Bottle filler
• Bottle drying rack
• Label paper (optional)
  

Supplies for brew day

• Propane tank
• Grains (2-row or wheat + specialty grains)
• Hops
• Yeast
• Augments (e.g. ginger, coffee, cocoa, vanilla beans, Turbinado sugar, honey, molasses, etc.)

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