Ever in Missoula, Montana I’d recommend the two local breweries in my hometown to anyone looking for great local brewed beers theKettlehouse Brewery and the Big Sky Brewery have some of the finest. The two links have some great brewing kits too that I’ve purchased quite a few brewing kits and styles from. Cheers!

The 2 pumps to circulate the wort (which is what you call the beer before it’s really beer) are about $100-200 each, if memory serves. Throw in $50-100 for the temp controllers, a similar amount for each burner, and money for materials for the frame, all the plumbing, valves, wiring, etc, and you can see how it adds up.

A lot of people have come up with cheaper setups by using, for example, old beer kegs as the kettles. The frame doesn’t need to be stainless; plenty of people have built frames from wood (whether thats a good idea with the propane burners is your call), or cheaper steel. Score some temp controllers and whatnot on ebay and you might be able to build something like this for

For someone looking to build a brewing rig where money is no object, a system like the Brutus Ten ( http://www.alenuts.com/brutus.htm ) is significantly more impressive and functional – and the cost would probably still be in the same ballpark. It brews 11 gallons, all-grain, and is automated to the point where brewing requires very little action from the brewer. Practically a “dream” rig.

Having a single fermenter built into the rig is pretty limiting as opposed to having multiple separate ones – and if you’re going to spend that kind of money, you should at least be using a conical fermenter for the associated gains.

Homebrewing is a great hobby, because you can make beer to suit your personal taste, and if you make enough, you get invited to a lot of parties.

Rather than this person’s rig, one would be much better off either fashioning your own brewing rig, or purchasing one from Sabco for better results than this person spent for his equipment, though he did make a valiant effort on making an all-in-one system. The Sabco “Brew Magic” system, can be found here: http://www.brew-magic.com/
If you are serious and can plunk down five large on this, you can brew some of the finest ales around.

However, if you want to start homebrewing, you would be better suited to spend around a yard, and get a starter kit, from here: http://www.undergrounddigital.com/beginners_kits.htm
or your friendly local homebrew supply shop.

Cheers… Relax, and enjoy beer that YOU made.

There is a refrigeration compressor on the right just before the tap.

There is a lot of information online and places to buy your own supply’s from online too. For a few hundred dollars u can get a kit and ingredents.

Well done and here’s to ya!