There's a lot of information on homebrewing, and it can seem really easy to mess up. But despite all of that, even if you make a lot of mistakes, odds are pretty good that you'll make beer, and drinkable beer at that.

I started with "kit and kilo" kits, which are almost impossible to mess up (really just add a can of concentrated pre-hopped wort and a kilo of sugar or dextrose to 5 gallons of water, cool it down and throw yeast in). If you want to just experiment, that's a relatively low cost and simple way to start. It's easy to scale up from there too - to either extract brewing with dried concentrated wort, or even all-grain brewing, where you're working directly with malted barley and other grains.)

A lot of people will suggest starting with all-grain from the start, but I found graduating up to that allowed me to master some of the basics (sanitation, fermentation temps, etc), without having too much to focus on at once.

Making beer is pretty easy. I always tell people: if you can boil water, tell time and be clean, you can make beer. The clean part is the most important. Malt is a perfect medium to grow all kinds of critters and until the yeast have established themselves, there is risk of infection (no health risks, but funky flavors).

Recipes are equipment and process dependent, and don't scale in a perfectly linear fashion but those are refinement.

Grab a copy of Papazian's The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing and "relax, don't worry and have a homebrew"

It's great, and what makes it so great is exactly that. It's highly possible to brew 5 gallons batches with the very same ingredient quality as any microbrewery and a process which is the same but at a smaller scale.

You also have to advantage over microbreweries to be more creative and test out stuff in your recipes because making 5 gallons of not so perfect beer is not the end of the world. All the professional brewers I know were homebrewers before and still are.

If you start with pre-assembled kits, they're really quite difficult to screw up, and the results are usually quite drinkable. The pre-assembled kits are usually 5 gallon/19 liters, although 1 gallon kits are available as well, but cost goes up (per yield).

The next step after would be taking recipes, either from the kits you already made, or found elsewhere, and assembling the ingredients yourself, tweaking where you want to make a change.

Nice, a kit sounds like a good way to get started quickly. Do you have any links for recommendations?

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Yes.