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Originally Posted by RebelR
Hey Tom, I always wondered about the level of involvement for home brewing, and is it worth the effort. Any recommendations?
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Sure it's worth it for me. I like the hobby aspect of it and the results are satisfying and money saving too. Plus no bottles to carry back and forth to a store. Just wash and reuse them.
Best recommendation I could give I think is to check out homebrewtalk.com's beginners beer brewing section. There are step by steps in the pinned topics and just tons of wisdom. It's a huge community.
I use typical home equipment kit which basically consists of a fermenting bucket and siphoning, measuring, bottling equipments. Most importantly, cleaning and sanitizing solutions.
You can make incredibly simple brews that are basically just like making orange juice from concentrate, adding yeast and waiting a few weeks for it to fermement. I go a step up from that and do what are called "partial extract" brews. Which involves steeping grains, adding hops and such.
Here is a video series that covers pretty much exactly the way I do it currently. I'm actually working through a batch of this stout right now and it's pretty damn good.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NDjUfUuv90k