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Materials
What you'll need.
Here is a list of the most basic equipment and ingredients you'll need to create your first home brewed masterpiece.
An understanding wife. Who doesn't mind giving up her kitchen and cleaning up the odd disaster from time to time. (Thanks Chris.) ;-)An air tight fermenter. complete with air lock and tap.A plastic brew spoon. Plastic is preferable due to the fact the a stainless steel spoon would soon scratch the inside of the fermerter, encouraging the growth of bacteria in the microscopic cracks.A sterilizing agent. Sodium Meta Bi-sulphate, available from all home brew shops will do the job. However due to the vapor given off by this, a chlorine based sterilizer is often preferable.A Brew Extractor. For bottling.Around 28 clean 750ml bottles.A capper. My advice is to spend a few bucks on a bench capper. The hand capper that is included with most home brew kits will work, but the risk of breaking bottles, and more importantly, the risk of personal injury from broken glass is just too great in my opinion.Optional extra's.
A good quality set of digital scales. For accuratly measuring ingreedients.A Beer Hydrometer. For determining the alcohol content of your finished beer.A second fermenter for racking. I'll cover racking later.A length of plastic tubing 12mm in diameter (depending on the tap size). For dropping the brew into a secondary fermenter.Ingeedients.
The beer kit of your choice. (Don't forget to check that the yeast packet is in fact under the lid before you walk out of the store).1 kilo of brewing sugar or dextrose.