All Grain Brewing Part 1

Let's start with the basics of affordable All Grain Brewing. First what you won't need. You won't need to take out a second mortgage on the family home to start. Despite what you may have shopped around for and been shocked at the cost of. All Grain brewing can be affordable and easy.

This is the method that I call Pragmatic Brewing. That is right folks, Today I'm going to walk you through a bit of what its about. Lets see what we will need to have to have to start. Weather your starting from being an Extract brewer or this is your very first beer. One question the Extract brewer will need is: Is my current brew kettle big enough? Answer: Probably not. For a 5 gallon batch of All Grain beer you will need to be able to boil at least 7 gallons all at once.

The All Grain brewer has to boil all of his liquid at once. Which means you will need a much bigger kettle, I would suggest no smaller than a 50QT kettle. There has been a lot of talk about do I need a Stainless Steel kettle? No it dos not have to be Stainless Steel, It can be a heavy gauge Aluminum kettle. You can pick up an Aluminum for a fraction of the cost, Around $50.00 lid and all. Opposed to an SS kettle which can run around $200.00.

There are some other items that you will need different probably than what you have.

You'll also need a Mash Tun, A way to get the sweet wort extracted from the grains.

I will be sharing how to build your own as we go along.

It will be evolving and growing with many resources for the new and old brewer alike.