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Wrapped gifts and a glass of beer Equipment3 min read Gifts for Homebrewers: What to Get a Brewer, by SetupGift ideas a homebrewer will actually use: stocking stuffers, brew-day upgrades and big gifts, plus how to check what fits their setup and the Christmas order-by dates. How to Size a Glycol Chiller for Your Fermenters Fermentation6 min read How to Size a Glycol Chiller for Your FermentersThree heat loads decide the chiller you need: pulling the beer down, holding it against fermentation heat, and cold-crashing. Work through them with a worked 1 BBL example and a... Illustration: The Benefits of Stainless Steel in Brewing Equipment Equipment3 min read The Benefits of Stainless Steel in Brewing EquipmentStainless steel doesn’t corrode, flavour the beer or mind strong cleaners. How it compares with copper, aluminium and plastic, 304 vs 316, and how to look after it. Illustration: The Essential Tools Every Homebrewer Should Have Equipment4 min read The Essential Tools Every Homebrewer Should HaveThe equipment you actually need to brew all-grain beer at home, and the upgrades that make the biggest difference to your beer. Copper vs Stainless Counterflow Chillers: What Actually Matters Chilling3 min read Copper vs Stainless Counterflow Chillers: What Actually MattersCopper conducts heat 25 times better than stainless, and it barely matters in a coil-in-coil chiller. Here is why, and why we build ours from 304 stainless anyway. Illustration: Conical Fermenters Explained: How the Cone Works, Types, and How to Use One Fermentation4 min read Conical Fermenters Explained: How the Cone Works, Types, and How to Use OneThe cone is the whole point: dump trub, harvest yeast, and never rack to a secondary again. What a conical fermenter does, the four types, a dump schedule that works,... Illustration: Sparge Arms Explained: Do You Need One, and Which Kind Brew day4 min read Sparge Arms Explained: Do You Need One, and Which KindA sparge arm spreads rinse water across the grain bed so it does not cut a channel and leave sugar behind. When it matters (fly sparging), when it does not... Brau Brewing Kettles Equipment3 min read The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Kettles: Everything You Need to KnowBuy a kettle about 1.5 to 2 times your batch size. Here is a size chart by batch, plus what matters in material, ports, drains and electric versus gas. Illustration: Electric Brewing for Beginners: 120V vs 240V, Systems and Setup Equipment3 min read Electric Brewing for Beginners: 120V vs 240V, Systems and SetupElectric brewing heats with an element and a controller instead of a burner. Here is 120V vs 240V, how big an element you need, single-vessel vs two- and three-vessel systems,... Brau supply Unitank conical jacketed fermenter Fermentation5 min read Stainless Unitank Fermenters: The Honest Pros and ConsA unitank lets you ferment, dry hop, carbonate and transfer under pressure in one sealed vessel. It also costs more, weighs more and needs cooling. Here is what you actually... What Is a Fermenter? What It Does, the Parts, and How to Choose One for Beer Fermentation5 min read What Is a Fermenter? What It Does, the Parts, and How to Choose One for BeerA fermenter is the vessel where wort becomes beer. What it has to do, the parts that matter, every type from bucket to jacketed unitank compared, and how to pick... The benefits of electrical brew-in-a-bag systems Equipment4 min read The benefits of electrical brew-in-a-bag systemsElectric brew-in-a-bag and single-vessel systems mash, lift and boil in one kettle. Here is why homebrewers like them and how they compare with three-vessel setups. Pressure Fermentation: The Complete Guide (Benefits, Downsides, Equipment, PSI Chart) Fermentation7 min read Pressure Fermentation: The Complete Guide (Benefits, Downsides, Equipment, PSI Chart)What fermenting beer under pressure does to yeast, esters and hop aroma, the gear you need, a step-by-step method, and a pressure and carbonation chart you can pin to the... Mash Tun Brau Supply Brew day6 min read HERMS Electric Brewing Explained: HLT, Mash Tun, Boil Kettle and LauteringHow a heat-exchange recirculating mash system holds mash temperature, steps it, and sparges, vessel by vessel, with a full brew-day walkthrough on a 240V three-vessel electric brewery. HopBlock: The Hop Filter We Built Because Mesh Filters Kept Failing Equipment3 min read HopBlock: The Hop Filter We Built Because Mesh Filters Kept FailingMesh hop spiders rip, clog and hold two ounces. The HopBlock is a 10-inch perforated stainless plate that sits on the kettle floor, takes a DIPA's worth of hops, and... Unibräu 10 gallon electric brewing system with SV1 controller, pump and chiller Equipment4 min read Unibräu vs Grainfather: G30, G40 and G70 ComparedThe Grainfather G30 costs less and has an app; the Unibräu has a thicker kettle, tri-clamp fittings and sizes up to 30 gallons. Side by side, with sources (October 2026).
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