Hello!
As with most starting out home brewers I have various bits of assembled plastic bucketry with varying lids and hoses, hydrometers varying in age from 35-1 years, broken and 'fixed' thermostats and a generally Heath Robinson borrowed shoe string assembled 'brewery' in my cellar held together mainly with good faith and drunken engineering physics. I wonder should I save up some money and buy lovely stainless steel FV, HLT & copper? Or really am I setting my self up for a financial fall?
What are the advantages part from it looking cool? Easier to clean? Well I dont mind spending £10 every year on a new plastic FV if it gets scratched? If I upgrade it would have to be the point where I the FV's can be chilled using a product chiller (or other) and PID's and... and... and.... otherwise I just have a stainless bucket.. and if I scratch/damage that it'll cost more than £10.
I think I just have shiny brewery envy
I have a current plan after xmas is to build a system from 22g/11g kegs (acquired legally from my employer) but after fittings and fiddling it shall be an expensive endeavour. Would you the homebrew public have in advice for someone that actually takes it quite seriously as a hobby (and has the full support of his partner and a cellar solely for brewing purposes)?
D
As with most starting out home brewers I have various bits of assembled plastic bucketry with varying lids and hoses, hydrometers varying in age from 35-1 years, broken and 'fixed' thermostats and a generally Heath Robinson borrowed shoe string assembled 'brewery' in my cellar held together mainly with good faith and drunken engineering physics. I wonder should I save up some money and buy lovely stainless steel FV, HLT & copper? Or really am I setting my self up for a financial fall?
What are the advantages part from it looking cool? Easier to clean? Well I dont mind spending £10 every year on a new plastic FV if it gets scratched? If I upgrade it would have to be the point where I the FV's can be chilled using a product chiller (or other) and PID's and... and... and.... otherwise I just have a stainless bucket.. and if I scratch/damage that it'll cost more than £10.
I think I just have shiny brewery envy
I have a current plan after xmas is to build a system from 22g/11g kegs (acquired legally from my employer) but after fittings and fiddling it shall be an expensive endeavour. Would you the homebrew public have in advice for someone that actually takes it quite seriously as a hobby (and has the full support of his partner and a cellar solely for brewing purposes)?
D