If you had £1500 to spend, what kit would you buy?

[JRTurner1234]

Hi All,

If you had £1500 to spend on home brewing kit what would be on your shopping list?! :)

Rules of the game:

- you need to buy *everything* that's is required to brew and serve your beer
- you can make any batch size you want
- you have to use UK prices (everything's cheaper in the US and that's cheating!)
- Does not need to include ingredients!

Let's go!

JRTurner

 

[Leon103]

Is this on top of your existing kit?

If so I would just add a Grainfather.

 

[Covrich]

You could squeeze a 20L braumister in they are £1140 but without the chillers and other bits you could easily make up the rest with the rest of the budget depends on how silly you went I suppose

 

[Leon103]

Grainfather will do me. Might get a few more easy kegs and another party star lol

 

[JRTurner1234]

Is this on top of your existing kit?

If so I would just add a Grainfather.

Assuming that you're starting from scratch! :)

 

[Halfacrem]

I'd get a second 10 Gal SS Brewtech Kettle with a false bottom, the SS 10 Gal Mashtun, a second Buffalo Induction Hob, a pump or two to move things around. An SS 7 Gal Chronicle and a fridge, plus an Inkbird controller. And a few more swing top bottles.

That'll do (I reckon). Rough estimate, that will leave me 2 or 3 hundred quid change.

 

[Spoon]

Is space unlimited (i.e. is this hypothetical or is the spare bedroom out of bounds?).

Is this £1500 for a new hobby from scratch or an experienced brewer who can shop 2nd hand and build things?

If it were me, I'd keep my current plastic 3-tier system (cost ~£200 to build)

Add in a couple of conical's and a couple of s.h larger fridges for them (£180 conicals, £100 parts, materials and an old fridges). ~£280

Keezer,(£40 freezer, 6x £30 taps, 6x £30 kegs, £100 ancillaries and fittings, £30 CO2, £50 Coke-cola gas board off ebay) ~£550

Yeast handling kit, a workbench with sneeze guard, fridge, diy stir plates, etc. Mostly because good yeast is I think the one thing my current setup is lacking. If I want to brew an AIPA I'm practically limited to Safael US-05, because it's £2 and makes nice beer. Doing a split batch with 3 similar yeasts then becomes expensive as other yeasts are liquid and £7 each.

 

[Brewed_Force]

I'd preorder a PicoBrew for $699 (https://picobrew.com/Store/products/PicoDetails.cshtml
and spend the rest on upgrading my shed (water, power, etc)

 

[MickDundee]

Grainfather (£645)

Conical Fermenter (£165)

Corny Keg set up for a kegerator (http://www.kegkingdom.co.uk/collect...-kits/products/kegerator-cnversion-kit-double) (£200)

Cheap fridge (£100)

Total £1,110

I'd probably just spend the rest on extra bottles and stuff.

 

[Notlaw]

Dedicated shed with electricity and water to it (maybe £500 tops)

Boiler/HLT (£100)

SsBT 10g Mash tun (£300)

Induction hob (£100)

SsBT 10g Kettle (£150)

SsBT 14g Conical Fermenter (£350)

I've run out of money, but I'd bargain hard to get a chiller chucked in... :thumb:

 

[klaus]

Assuming that you're starting from scratch! :)

If I am starting from scratch, I'll put the £1500 somewhere safe (bank?) and then learn to brew with some basic equipment and supplies and then if I think brewing is for me I might consider spending some serious money.

 

[Cwrw666]

Me, I'd probably buy a new fermenting bin (£13 in my local homebrew shop, outrageous!)
and trouser the remaining £1,487.

 

[Robin54]

I would get a week in a detox clinic

 

[wfr42]

According to my brewing costs spreadsheet I have spent about £600 to date (just under a year).

Including
2 starter kits (was cheaper than buying a 2nd barrel and kit individually)
4 2nd hand demi johns
A 15litre pan for stove top brews
The Hbc biab starter kit

And have grain for AG5 and 1.2kg of hops in the freezer for "next year".

As mentioned above part of the beauty is you can build slowly when you know you enjoy it and feel the next purchase will improve your brewing.

 

[jayjt29]

I dread to think what I've spent lol

If I had 1500 spare and serious into brewing Id get a GrainFather and other bits on bobs to complete the brewing set up, probably have change to buy loads of ingredients :)

Cheers
Jay

 

[BrannBrew]

Crazy thing happened today. Wife and I invited to one of her friends garden party mid July. Was going to do a brew anyway but she said oh Damo probably have a beer done by then for the boys. I use to have a tap a draft but gave it to a fellow new Brewer to help him out.

So wifey said if you had that still it would of been perfect, explain then to her about a 9L proper keg setup and that a website is selling it quite good price with only a few left in stock. She was like you should get it. Part 1 of my new Brew gear is now on its way.

Hopefully in laws and parents give me some money as my other shiny things combined are about £1000.

The keg,couplings and bits were about 200, however couldn't turn down the powers that be give me clearance unknowingly *que evil laugh*

 

[GlentoranMark]

Where can you get a dedicated shed with water and electrics for £500 :-?

I'm after a 10x 6 or 12 x 6 shed for a brew pub :)

Dedicated shed with electricity and water to it (maybe �£500 tops)

Boiler/HLT (�£100)

SsBT 10g Mash tun (�£300)

Induction hob (�£100)

SsBT 10g Kettle (�£150)

SsBT 14g Conical Fermenter (�£350)

I've run out of money, but I'd bargain hard to get a chiller chucked in... :thumb:

 

[Robin54]

A Morris Minor for restoration??..does it count?

 

[geigercntr]

My first thought: man shed. Probably still doing 10litre biab, but at least I'd have a shed :)

 

[LarryF]

Grainfather (�£645)

Conical Fermenter (�£165)

Corny Keg set up for a kegerator (http://www.kegkingdom.co.uk/collect...-kits/products/kegerator-cnversion-kit-double) (�£200)

Cheap fridge (�£100)

Total �£1,110

I'd probably just spend the rest on extra bottles and stuff.

I'm with you Mick, that's the set up that jumped to mind excepting maybe the corny but that's because I only know bottles. I think this round about nails it.