I’m starting to notice a trend in my adventures of beer brewing. I’m becoming a bit of a beer brewing equipment snob as I learn more about the craft of brewing beer. Don’t confuse this with a beer snob as I’ll drink any beer especially free beer. I don’t care if it’s natural light, high life or Colt 45 malt liqour the only bad beer is no beer!
Anyhow before I get too far off topic I’ll tell you why I’m becoming a beer equipment snob. I haven’t brewed beer in about 3 months due to the fact that I lost my freezer that I use as a temperature control tank. I had to wait until I was able to purchase another freezer which I did about 2 weeks ago. I can remember when I would brew an ale and throw it in the coolest corner of the house for a few weeks and happily drink it. Now days I’m not happy unless the hydrometer shows ideal results in ideal time and I am a big critic of my results being that brewing a beer usually involves slaving over a brew setup for 4 hours.(it takes so long because I also only brew all grain now)
Ok it gets worse.
In addition to the freezer I also impulsively ordered an expensive stainless steel wort chiller because I am worried the small one isn’t cooling my hand made stainless steel keg pots fast enough. I also ordered hop balls because I feel like trub and hops getting tossed to the side walls of the pot is hurting my bitter. For strike three I’ve also ordered an expensive refractometer because I want another verdict on my gravity readings versus my hydrometer.
I feel like I’ve become a beer brewing equipment snob. I remember when I happily brewed with $150 worth of equipment and now I know it must be 10 times that! I warn you all out there that beer brewing can become an expensive addiction like fishing, golfing or any other accessory driven activity. But it sure is fun!
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