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Check out Northern Brewer or Beer, Beer, and More Beer. Also, checkout some podcasts on homebrewing.
http://www.northernbrewer.com
http://www.brewcrazy.com
http://www.basicbrewingradio.com
http://www.brewbubbas.com
http://www.yeastslurry.com
Comment by Dann G — February 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am
try a local club
brewarizona.org
any home brew or wine making store can guide you
Comment by frank — February 5, 2010 @ 10:44 am
http://www.homebrewmart.com/
Comment by petey00p — February 5, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
I can’t really help you man. But a friend was telling me one time he brewed a drink out of beetroot, following instructions he got out of a book and he pissed purple after.
Comment by garion b — February 5, 2010 @ 8:43 pm
I started with Brewers’ Best (a gift) and have never had any problems with it. Unlike Mr Beer, it is suitable for a full 5-gal. batch. Then I started adding to it and adding and adding ….
I would recommend getting a copy of Papazian’s book The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing. That will give you some ideas. You can also assemble your own kit from assorted sources.
Comment by oikos — February 5, 2010 @ 11:32 pm
sam adams has a great home kit. when you make your own, you can submit it to them and get known for that beer!!!
Comment by phoenixl — February 6, 2010 @ 6:31 am
Any kit that includes a glass fermenter (6-7 gal), a bottling bucket with spigot (1/2 gal smaller than the fermenter or larger), a bottling wand, airlock, some tubing, a hydrometer, and bottling brush are the very basics.
You would want to consider bottling options — swingtop or crow cap? Crowns need a bottling device and a bunch of caps.
It would be good to have a thermometer, almost any one you have that goes from room temperature to boiling will work.
Racking canes are optional, really. Some people use them, some don’t.
Plastic fermenter buckets are okay, but I think glass is better. You can also use it for wine, if you want to change it up. Plastic and wine don’t work too well.
Oh, and you’ll need like a 6 gallon pot. You probably don’t have one. And a strainer, to remove the hops from your wort as you move it to your fermenter.
Also, if you want, a second fermentation vessel. This depends if your brews need a 2nd fermentation or can be bottled directly. The transfer from fermenter to bottling bucket will remove most of the sediment from fermentation, and if you let it sit in the bottling bucket for a little while the rest should settle.
Comment by hrothgar — February 6, 2010 @ 12:18 pm