Items needed for brewing beer

Suggestions from a beer-brewing friend.

more.

* 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)
 

h2. 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
 

h2. Bottling Items

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

h2. 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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