How to Homebrew for Beginners pt.1 (A look at equipment & how to get set up) 

I started with the same kit from Morebeer 2 years ago from Black Friday. The one I got came with a CO2 tank/regulator and 5 gallon torpedo keg. This is what tipped the scale for me to splurge on it, otherwise I probably would have just bought individual pieces. Great starter kit though. I made about 4 batches of extract before upgrading to keggles (mash tun & boil kettle), but still use the 8 gallon pot for transferring strike water and various odds and ends. I still use the immersion chiller as a secondary chiller and an ice bath after wort flows through my counterflow chiller for 50F lager pitch temperatures. The fermonster was a weak point for me. The first one I got came with a spigot. My first batch leaked nearly a gallon of beer on my floor. I returned it to Morebeer for a non-spigotted version. That second one lasted about 5 more batches before it warped due to cleaning it with hot water. I quickly switched to fermenting 1/2 bbl sankey kegs. Never used the bottling bucket, bottle filler, capper, cleaning tabs/sanitizer (I just bought 4lbs of PBW and bottle of starsan from the get go) I still use the spoon and hydrometer.

Ahh I remember the days of excitement when I first started brewing! Good times!

I'm still pretty new to home brewing, got my second batch in secondary, ready to bottle this weekend, and my third batch is still fermenting, got a batch of Basic Mead (1 gallon batch) fermenting away, I need to pull a specific gravity reading to see if it's done yet, although it's still burping through the airlock at almost 3 weeks. LOVE your videos and passion for the craft. I wish I'd known 30 years ago how basic this craft was, and how fun. Keep rockin at what you do! YOU ROCK!

Been brewing for a few years, just a couple beers a year, but was really scared of deviating from the recipe. Watching your channel has definitely encouraged me to be a bit more experimental. Happy you are encouraging new brewers!

I have just started Homebrewing (because I needed another quarantine hobby) and I love this channel because you're local (I'm in L.A.) and you demonstrate that you don't need to have a huge garage or farm to do this! Thanks Sarah!

Would be a great Christmas gift to get someone started. Nothing better than brewing with a group of people and drinking

My great uncle and I brewed beer in the late 1960s and I have been brewing ever since so, yeah I've seen some evolution in home brewing. You do a fantastic job teaching the basics.

Put the Teflon tape on clockwise with the threads facing you. I always got it wrong before I started doing this.

I haven't installed my valves on the set-up I'm piecing together yet, this will make it look like I know what I'm doing to the housemates when I get around to this sometime this winter.

I picked up mead making during quarantine, primarily due to the lower cost of entry into a homebrewing hobby. The cost of kettles and chillers and fermentation chambers and everything else really intimidated me. But I've made about 30 gallons of mead since May and have accumulated far more equipment than planned (just bought a full keg set up!) and a recent foray into braggots has gotten me interested in beer once again.

Cool video. I like the honesty and unpretentious way you present content.

Happy Learn to Homebrew Day!!! Homebrewing is one of the most rewarding hobbies!

This is awesome, let's get more people brewing!!

I always look forward to your next video and seeing what your brewing up next.

It's crazy what some people get for brewing beer. I just started out with the brew in the bag and making mead. Now if I had a kit like this in the start, my friends would be calling me Malter White with all the tubes and containers. Here is to hoping I can have the dream of getting this kit, shaving my head and quoting Bryan Cranston.

Yep. I mash and boil in a 5 gallon soup kettle, and ferment in a 2 gallon bucket. Makes for small batches, but that's OK.

Nice starter kit, everything to get started with. Looking forward to the brewday video,

Our local club had a successful Learn to Homebrew day!

I didn't know there was a homebrew day! So cool

A homebrewer that manages to keep the weight off! ;)

This is my first year brewing and I made 15 batches on a simple 20L plastic fermenter (+ 1 more for sanitization). This is so nice to experiment! Here is some my random imaginings this year: Trying to make the same beer with the exact same ingredients, Trying to make the beer with some variation (yeast, hops...) Fruits beer, CBD beer, non-alcoholic beer, honey beer, multiple yeast beer, brown ale and so much more to try! Have fun everyone ! (Chimay Bottle in Belgium is the best for free beer bottle)

Wow there's a lot of good stuff in that starter kit

Love this i never started with a kit as good as this, I would get that now just for the kettle #iwantthatkettle. Lol

The ptfe tape is easy, look at the end of the thread from the end you are inserting. Then wrap the tape clockwise.

I gotta buy this kit for my friend. Its got everything!

Cheers! Homebrewing is fun, excited to submit my 5th brew, an American Stout for judging on Nov. 7th. Thanks for the video and good luck to all who enter to win.

Love your channel. Because of your channel I am looking to by the Clawhammer unit. Keep up the good work.

Well done Sarah, fantastic and helpful.

Can't wait to watch the other videos. Excited for the grain video. Hope to win!

I like that stock pot with the attachments. I've always funneled the chilled wert into the fermenter.

Remind your viewers that ALL joints should have Teflon tape. Stainless steel will gall-under heat/pressure they will kind of “weld” together. It’s also hard to seal without tape.

My first beer- American Honey Ale. 1 gallon batch. It came out watery. Like I had good carb, smell was great, but it was watery. I had beer in my water. I have a 5 gallon cream ale brewing. I hope the step up helps.

Cant wait to start homebrewing

Been watching for a while, plan to do my first brew this weekend!

I’ve got a strong ale sitting in a fermonster right now, they are great.

Good vid. Just as a side note about the teflon tape. You put on in the rite direction, but keep the tape flat and you only need 1 1/2 - 2 full turns of tape. I kinda wish I would have started with a start kit like that instead of jumping into making a electric HERMS sys. I'm not sure how much exactly, but I'm sure I'm in for at least $1200-$1400 so far and I still need a chiller (counterflo $154-$200), hoses and pumps (aprox $400), and the HERMS coil ($200). Not to mention keging. I am stepping back a bit tho and going to do some extract brewing. From your vid I see that I still need a chiller for the extract brewing :-/ Thanks for the vid. I appreciate it.

Wow, this really seems like a great kit for beginners! Even more so as it comes with a chiller. Like many other homebrewers in my area I started with simply a pot and a bucket (the pot for mashing and boiling, the bucket for lautering and fermentation). So in those early days, chilling the wort was the most annoying thing I had to deal with on every brewday. Since then I've hoarded a lot of equipment so that now I basically could brew on three different systems simultaneously. Although I love the convenience of my current Grainfather setup, I kinda like the idea that I could go back to the pot and bucket at any time. Anyway, this is a really great giveaway event, thanks for sharing it with us!

That threaded post is a nipple. They come in different sizes and lengths. Stainless ones are nice.

My wife and I both brew. Can always use more supplies between us!

"And I'm pretty sure I did that wrong..." Me, every day I'm in the Brewery :-P

Great video. Looking to get started soon, so this is awesome.

Your videos are awesome! Thanks for what you do!

I just going to start making my own brewing and I get really excited in brewing whenever I look at your videos! Keep doing great stuff!!

This is a great series idea and promotion, thanks for putting it all together!

Thanks for posting these. You've piqued my interest in brewing for myself and friends.

Love your videos I find them very informative.

Thank you for doing this video! I’m new to the brewing world and am so excited to get started. Your videos let me know that it’s not as scary as I initially though it was. Tomorrow is my first brew day!!!!

Thanks for this and all you videos!!

You have a great channel. Learning a lot

I didn't realize that home brew was so much more complicated in America!

Great vid as always. I’ve been making mead for over ten years and recently got into home brewing. Currently fermenting my 4th batch of extract. Lock Down Brown Ale🍻👍🏼✌🏼. Soon I’ll be graduating to all grain. Thanks for the tips, tricks and home brew knowledge. Cheers 🍻

#FreeTheHops can’t wait to get the home brew flowing!

You have a great channel Sarah , keep it up !!!!

Awesome! Such a cool thing to do. I love your channel

Ow Flora I am moving now to the US... just to get this prize... no just kidding. Thanks for this and other video's 😜

I just started home brewing this year. This would be an awesome kit to have, especially since my fermenter is a five gallon bucket which leaves no room to ferment a full five gallon recipe.

Cheers from Brazil,you're awesome....i love how often you post videos,thanx

Love your videos. Keep up the good work!

Nice! Love what your doin here! Great show!

I started a month ago. I received a grain-based home-brew kit as a gift. The instructions sucked. I had to resort to YOUR videos (and reading online instructions/advice). The 'kit' beer is currently bottled and mid August I'll chill them and do a taste test. However... I am now on my SECOND kit/batch (non-grain) which is currently in the fermenter. It's fun!

Thanks Sarah!

A nice kit, for sure.

My friend and I have our first brew day planned on the 11th. Right now we have just enough equipment to have one batch going at a time. Would love to win this kit. Love your videos!!! Lots of useful info! Cant wait to get started brewing.

This would be an awesome win!

great video! so nice to have everything you need to start brewing all in one package!

I started as an enterprising 18 year old who figured out $1 airlocks, $3 yeast, and all the juice and sugar packets I could sneak out of the dining hall would make me a few bucks in the freshman hall some nights. At first it wasn't very good, and I didn't have a siphon. But the brew got better, I grew a decent customer base, and made at least $150 before I got busted. The Jeffs down the hall may have made more money growing weed, but I got off with a warning and a new hobby for the decades ahead. They got expelled, and a criminal record.

Cheers, looks like an awesome starter kit and some cool goodies from great companies.

Great chance to start brewing

What an awesome giveaway! Really like your videos and great content.

All great advice. Doubling sanitize advice. I (sometimes) miss the days of my old tamale pot and brew bag.

That’s an awesome kit!! NEED THIS SO I CAN CONTINUE WITH MY JOURNEY!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🍺🍻

Love your vids!! I really want that kit!!

Thanks for the videos. Great info and easy to follow! Keep up the amazing job!

this is the one thing I've missing doing. I haven't brewed beer in a long while.

Looking forward to more videos

Cool, same kit I started with last year! Upgraded a few things along the way

Nice! I started on a northern brewer kit and this one looks better! Switching to electric changed the game for me though!

I have done a few batches, but my home made brewing kit it’s not as awesome as this lol. You have great videos 🤙🏼🍺

Keep up with the great videos!

Love the video. Thank you!

Awesome kit!

New to beer brewing. Been making mead for a while now and made my first braggot. Interested in learning to make beer now!! I started following your channel and subscribed couple of months ago. Used your videos to help me set up my kegerator and also learned how to force carb and using a carb stone. Lots of good info. I came today to look at some vids and saw your giveaway! Sign me up to win!!!

That kettle sure is nice.

It's awesome. Looking pretty too

Really enjoy your videos! Thank you for putting on these giveaways :) cheers!

It would be awesome to win this. Being stationed in Japan, the craft beer here is limited and expensive. Brewing my own is more practical and definitely the better way to go!

It's like making oatmeal... except with like 3 hours of cleanup. lol

Excellent!!

I love your tutorials and hope I win one of these packages.

Love this video! Hopefully my between this and my sister I can figure out how to do this!

Damn, I wish this giveaway was for the UK too! I’d absolutely love to start brewing my own beer. I’ve been talking to so many bar owners, and trying so many amazing beers, I’m ready to try it out myself!

Nice Video. #STAYSAFE #KEEPBREWING

Next you will need to do a all grain for newbies!

I am jealous. I have the northern brewer kit and the brew kettle in it is pants compared to that kettle you have.

Great videos.

"its just like making oatmeal" First time I made oatmeal, I debated on throwing out my microwave from the oatmeal explosion... wish me luck!

Modelo bottles are nice to recycle for home brew. "Buy a bottle and get free beer."

Nice! I could really use this :-) you're awesome! Keep it up :-)

Hi I love you RU-vid videos very interesting!!!

I want. Kit 😍