What original pieces of equipment do you still have?

[Grossy]

I started brewing 3 years ago with a Extract Brewing kit that I bought off Craigslist.

Since then I have gone to all-grain 10-gallon keggles, and have now gone to a 20 gallon system.

Still have and use my original 8-gallon kettle (as a grant).

Still have my original hydrometer.

 

[Lifer59]

Brewing about four years and moved to all grain about two years ago. I still use the original 5 gal kettle to heat strike water and use the fermenting and bottling bucket that came with the kit. Still doing 5 gallon batches. Tubing, racking cane, bottle filler and spigot have been replaced. Hydrometer has been replaced four or five times due to clumsiness.


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[Denny]

At 17 years, I still have my original carboy. Probably because I quit using carboys! Also still have original kettle and bottling bucket.

 

[SnakeRidge]

I've replaced most of my stuff over the years, but I actually still have my original hydrometer and floating thermometer from 1998. I use a thermapen and refractometer on brew days now, but I do get out the hydrometer to test FG (when I bother to do it). I've also still got one of my original glass carboys. I must have put 200 batches through that guy over the years.

 

[Spartan1979]

I'm still using the same kettles and mash tun that I was using around 1993. There's been some things added to them in that time, but the same vessels. I still use my malt mill from back then and have the burner I started with, although I rarely use that burner anymore.

 

[Beernik]

I've been brewing 8 years. Still use my original buckets, bottles, wine thief, and air locks. I also still have my original BK but I only use it when decocting.

 

[kh54s10]

I have everything that has not worn out, gotten too dirty, stained etc., that I started with. I use most of it from time to time.


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[flars]

Still use my 7.5 acid carboy purchased in 1987.

 

[Yooper]

I have mostly the same stuff, with a few additions of course. I have a few buckets that got scratched, and those have been relegated to grain storage or my milling area, but I still use them.

I don't use the 5 gallon MLT, so I gave that to a friend. But I still use my 10 gallon cooler once in a while, for smaller grainbills, and I use it (along with my original stuff) when I brew stove top batches.

 

[beernutz]

I brewed my first and only extract batch in 1992 and my first all-grain beers later that same year.

I can't think of anything I had and used back then that I still use today except an old Craftsman tool box I bought in 1973 that I kept and still keep my small stuff in.

 

[kadozen]

I still have all the equipment from the 2 mr. Beer kits my wife and mom bought me. I've been thinking about using those little fermenters to lager a yuengling clone for my parents

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[Brettomomyces]

I'm coming up on year 10...only thing I still have from the beginning is a 5 gal carboy and another 5 gal carboy that came from my great-grandfather, it's at least 80 years old.

 

[Roadie]

We've only been brewing a couple years but still have everything. I put a lot of thought into the setup before spending a dime and went 20g E-HERMS, plate chiller, filter and 8 tap keezer right off the bat.


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[dkevinb]

The only things I DON'T have are the original Beer Machine kits the kids bought me many, many years ago. I do have the Mr. Beer LBK they bought me a few years ago, along with everything else I've bought since then.

 

[TrickyDick]

I started brewing 3 years ago with a Extract Brewing kit that I bought off Craigslist.

Since then I have gone to all-grain 10-gallon keggles, and have now gone to a 20 gallon system.

Still have and use my original 8-gallon kettle (as a grant).

Still have my original hydrometer.

Methinks you've just jinxed yourself on the original hydrometer!


I have my original Carboy, and bottling bucket/primary bucket, autosiphon, numerous airlocks. Got my Mr Beer kit in 1998 but didn't brew up anything til January 1999. Went to 5 gallon within a year and All-grain in 2005. Brutus system since 2009(? or 2010?).

Great hobby! Don't want to discuss hydrometers to avoid the jinx curse.

TD

 

[TrickyDick]

I'm still using the same kettles and mash tun that I was using around 1993. There's been some things added to them in that time, but the same vessels. I still use my malt mill from back then and have the burner I started with, although I rarely use that burner anymore.

+1 on the MaltMill! It was the only thing available back then!

Mine's now motorized and used it again today! Still going strong!

Go Sparty!!!


TD

 

[Calder]

I think I beat the lot of you. I still have and use for just about every batch three 7 gallon fermenters I bought from Boots in the UK. That was early 80s. I made fruit wines back then. I really like them, not looking forward to using buckets when they finally go. I have some glass carboys too, but I bought them in the States about 20 years ago.

I have about 15 brown glass gallon (Imperial gallon) carboys that I used back in the UK some 30 years ago too. Currently sitting in the crawl space with various sours in them. Perfect size for the crawl space.

I still have many of my airlocks, which are smaller than the ones here in the States; I use them for starters.

I also still have my corker from then + a lot of corks that I doubt I will ever use.

I stil have one of my original racking canes (with new tubing), which is in regular use.

Probably have some other stuff too, but can't think of anything right now.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I have a 5 and 6 1/2 gallon carboy from when I started in '99. my granny gave my dad her old hydrometer from way back in the day. it has a red line on it that states "Bottle Here".

 

[MaddBaggins]

Brewing since 1997
Still have my original hydrometer, carboys, wing capper and thermometer.

I don't use the wing capper anymore, but the carboys get used often.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Brewing since 1997
Still have my original hydrometer, carboys, wing capper and thermometer.

I don't use the wing capper anymore, but the carboys get used often.

I still have my thermometer too. I use it all the time and forget how old it is.

 

[Braufessor]

I am sure I have a few things.... but, the most impressive would have to be my 18 year old Hydrometer! I will probably break it tomorrow, now that I said it.

 

[Zuljin]

Cane, that little black plastic foot thing that goes on the bottom of the cane, the red thing that holds the cane, red plastic wing capper, pot. Two Ale Pails. I should probably replace the one used as a fermenter. It's stained brown and scratched all to hell. An airlock. Maybe some bottles. Glass lasts a long time. Most brew stuff lasts a long time.

And a cardboard box. I use one of the boxes that my original order of bottles came in to hold my aged reserve.

 

[DaNewf]

I started brewing about three years ago with the Cooper's DIY kit. I still have all the equipment from that kit and I still use most of it even though I mostly do partial mash and all grain brewing now. I even still bottle a lot of my beer in the Cooper's 750ml PET bottle using the same caps that came with the kit.

 

[DanCoBrewing]

I brewed my first "James Page Bavarian Dark" malt extract kit on 01/11/1994. I know this because I still have my original notebook of brewing I began that day.

Brewed the last beer of my extract career, "Negra Dandelo" on 04/15/1997 before taking a hiatus of nearly sixteen years to finish working for a living and not having time to brew all grain. But I finally retired from work and began anew in 2013 with a few extract batches to re-familiarize myself with the process and rapidly moved onto all grain brewing.

When staring up again I dug out my old stuff and found many items.

Among other things I am still using my original bottle tree, hydrometer, a case of heavy 12 oz returnable bottles (and the real old "Old Style" case I keep them in), three glass carboys which I am not afraid to use, carboy handle, brass bottle washer and my pride and joy a "Phil's Philler" which is being used again when I bottle.

 

[ChuckO]

Although not used for brewing any more, I have my 5 gal. aluminum pot from 1975. First use was for an extract brew with flaked maize adjunct.

I also have my original bottle capper, definitely NOT being used. I've replaced the mallet that was necessary though.

 

[unionrdr]

I still have most of the stuff I started with in use. My Cooper's Microbrew fermenter, bottling bucket, bottling wand, spray bottle & some other odds-n-ends still in use. Keep'em clean & in good repair & they last a long time.

 

[DanCoBrewing]

Wow 1975. Impressive. Interesting tool there. Old bottle crimping tool? Works with mallet?

 

[The_Nid_Hog]

I've been brewing for 19 years and I have the first two carboys I bought, plus my original wing capper. All still in use.

 

[ChuckO]

Wow 1975. Impressive. Interesting tool there. Old bottle crimping tool? Works with mallet?

Yes, you put it over the cap on top of the bottle and hit it with a mallet. Needless to say I used it only on the first batch and then bought a bench capper. Still have that one also.