![]() ![]() ![]() Putting your homebrew into bottles is the most time consuming and pain in the ass part of brewing. It’s also the standard way homebrewers start out and learn the basics before upgrading to the “all-grain” homebrew standard. It circumvents the costly and complex step of producing your own sugars from malted barley. Extract brewing means you purchase pre-made beer syrup which you turn into beer. Since homebrew kegs are 5 gallons, this size setup will produce one keg every time you use it.Įxtract only, but easily upgradable to all-grain. ![]() Here is what your set up will be able to do:ĥ-gallon batches - this is the standard size for homebrewers. If I had built this system first, it would have saved me lots of time and money on Northern Brewer’s website. If I had known everything I now know about homebrewing back when I started, this is the system I would have built from the get-go. Tons of plug and play systems exist out there to prey on those with big budgets and not a lot of experience. While you might have the boss’s credit card, you still want to keep this below the quadruple digits. Similarly, if homebrewing for the office turns out to be pointless and difficult, as much of the equipment should be repurposable as possible. If y’all start off homebrewing and find that you want to ramp up your game to produce more impressive brews, nothing you bought should become useless or redundant if you decide to upgrade. It needs to be upgradable or downgradable. That means that maximum amount of easiness to buy, set up, learn, and use. These were the constraints I had in mind: If you are in an office, especially one that already owns a kegerator for at work happy hour, this is, without doubt, the most perfect list of stuff to get you started for the perfect at work homebrew setup. This is also the perfect beginner's setup for the standard at-home homebrewer, however, while this is basically the setup I use now, it’s a little riskier (read, expensive) for just one fellow to use at home. It’s not quite a tutorial in homebrewing, but more a shopping list for how to build the perfect homebrew set up for the office. He had no homebrewing experience at all and the bosses credit card. This post was inspired by an email from a buddy of mine. Scroll down to the big heading if you just want to see the list already. What follows is a primer on shopping for home brew supplies. What and Why about Building The Perfect Office Homebrew Setup Here is a guide on how to homebrew for the office, ideally, in the office. You’ve heard of this cool new homebrewing thing and are wondering if this is something you and your office mates would all like to participate in together as an *ahem* team building exercise. No stuffy boomers are hanging around telling you to wear ties and wait till happy hour. You changed offices and found that this place has a slightly more millennial approach when it comes to the alcohol policy. ![]()
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