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Originally Posted by xbarretx
Okay, I only did it because it was my very first homebrew and I wanted to be able to gauge the difference between doing a secondary or not. This next batch will be solely primary like you mentioned. The most difficult part for me was bottling and not because it a difficult process or anything. It just sucked doing it in my kitchen with no extra pair of hands. I need to work on my efficiency so I spill/waste less. And capping was tedious lol. Small price to pay for less than 50 cents a beer for something that tastes much better than keystone/old Milwaukee ( or anything else from the store at that price point )
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Go to Walmart and get a 5 gallon bucket for about 3 bucks then find you a bottling spigot on amazon for maybe 5 bucks
My primary has a valve on it so I usually turn the valve on and use a dinner plate to let the beer coming out of the primary to deflect off of to prevent over foaming in the bottling bucket...
I have a stand up bottle capper but I also have reusable PET plastic bottles that work great, even reuse your caps... Also another great reason to use plastic is you can determine your carbonation level easier by the firmness of the bottle.
I am not a smoked bacon beer or any crazy flavored beer guy, I am mainly an Ale maker and Irish Guiness clone maker .. I don't make clones for American beers because they are so cheap already I just pick that up locally.
i buy ingredient kits from Midwest Supplies or Norther Brewer and locally.
Your best bet is to buy locally from a beer shop that grinds your grains as soon as you buy your kit... Another big big tip to produce good beer is to get that wort chilled to yeast pitch temp ASAP...
My next step will be kegging , at that time I may experiment with a secondary fermenter...
Kegging is the way to go because there is no bottling and no priming needed..
If I can give you but one piece of advice I would say to make sure you sanitize everything that touches your beer.. I use star san then I put all the bottles in the dishwasher on sanitize mode right before bottling
It's a fun hobby... The yeast does all of the hard work
