abdominousabel
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When I started buying my equipment, I figured I wasn't going to buy a kit, I was going to make it! but then i started calculating the cost, I was going to save to save about $10 if i make my fermentation buckets, so instead i just bought individual things to make a kit. I figured "well fermenters are forever so might as well get a carboy" and then I figure well one 6 and one 5 Gal won't hurt! Might as well get a bottling bucket with a spigot. You can't forget the sanitizer and the whirlfloc tablets! Better buy everything in bulk! I am a novice so let me get a beer recipe kit, but I want the tastiest looking one! It all came to be around $300 for my first batch gear. Now i find out about mashing and how i can not by DME/LME and save loads of money ($30 a batch) now i want to buy a mash tun with all the attachments such as the false bottom. I hear about the convenience of kegging so that's my next buy! wait! I need to keep it cool! Time to make a jockey box for parties and a keezer for home! I know I'm just going to find more and more.
HOW DO I STOP!!!! LMAO!
I know I'm going to definitely spend more than 1500 by the end of summer and have a bunch of batches kegged. Man my batches can't catch up with my excitement and the speed I want all these upgrades! I'm looking to buy equipment for beer I'm not even making soon or know how too.
This isn't a hobby, don't let anyone call it that. This is a science. I'm a Civil Engineer and I was surprised that I had to use Specific gravity, Flocculation for yeast starters, Henry's Law (How Gases Dissolve into water mixtures aka beer), and all these other things I'm too lazy to calculate. Thats why there's brew software, but in case of a improbably mad max apocalypse, it is good to know how to do all these calculations and how to brew beer most of all!!!
Okay I'm done ranting, I'm curious to other people's expectations vs reality when they first started.
HOW DO I STOP!!!! LMAO!
I know I'm going to definitely spend more than 1500 by the end of summer and have a bunch of batches kegged. Man my batches can't catch up with my excitement and the speed I want all these upgrades! I'm looking to buy equipment for beer I'm not even making soon or know how too.
This isn't a hobby, don't let anyone call it that. This is a science. I'm a Civil Engineer and I was surprised that I had to use Specific gravity, Flocculation for yeast starters, Henry's Law (How Gases Dissolve into water mixtures aka beer), and all these other things I'm too lazy to calculate. Thats why there's brew software, but in case of a improbably mad max apocalypse, it is good to know how to do all these calculations and how to brew beer most of all!!!
Okay I'm done ranting, I'm curious to other people's expectations vs reality when they first started.