What equipment would you least like to be without?

[MrJay83]

Yes I noticed this combination of products mentioned elsewhere and would seem like a great idea to me were it not for the price tag.

I consider myself something of a budget brewer, hence attempting to achieve an acceptable temperature with blankets lol. However it occurs to me; if the addition of a heat pad is all I need to keep winter brewing this is an attractive prospect to me.

In that case just a heat belt and one of those rubber buckets you get in Aldi from time to time. You can wrap a blanket around it for insulation and the bucket is great if your brew is getting too warm then you can put water and ice in it. The heat belt should have an adjustment dial and you can dial it in with the a temperature strip stuck to the fermenter. Takes a bit more effort & monitoring but it's cheap as chips and was my first setup.

 

[Big_Eight]

At a minimum a burner, kettle, bag, carboy, bung and airlock, bottling bucket with bottling wand, corn sugar, bottles, caps, capper, racking cane, immersion chiller, Thermometer, hydrometer, and Star San. It would be annoying if I didn't have any of these things.

 

[LeeH]

Fermzilla or any type of pressure FV.

The iTap is also a game changer.

Braumiester, the simplest way to brew.

Obviously fermentation fridge/temp control…..just too much to list really.

Oh, kegs, don’t forget the corni kegs!