Homebrew Supplies

Over the past year or so Craig and I have accumulated a good array of different brewing equipment.  Chris has bought several kits as well.  Chris, the budding accountant in the house, put together a QuickBooks file for us so we can track our expenses.  Maybe one day if we pursue this gig professionally this could come be very useful.

There are several sites that we frequent, including:

http://monsterbrew.com/
http://www.homebrew4less.com/
http://www.brewersbestkits.com/
http://www.themadfermentationist.com/
http://www.annapolishomebrew.com/
http://www.mdhb.com/
http://www.realbeer.com/index.php
http://beeradvocate.com/
http://www.highgravitybrew.com/Index.asp

In the DC area there are 3 homebrew shops: one in Columbia, MD; one in Falls Church, VA; and one in Annapolis, MD.  We have not been to the one in Annapolis yet.  The Falls Church store had very helpful employees and it is right across from a Dogfish Head restuarant.  We obviously stopped there for some lunch and tasty brews.  The Columbia shop is probably the best one.  They also have very helpful employees and a lot of fresh ingredients.  When we make our first brew from scratch we will probably get our ingredients from here.  They have grains, malt, and whole leaf hops in addition to several different kinds of Brewer's Best kits.

We recently purchased a wort chiller, which has been pretty solid.  We've only used it for 2 brews so far but it cools the wort down very quickly and effectively.  At this point in our basement we have the following:

kegerator
mini fridge
large fridge
bottles
bottling bucket with spigot
2 glass carboys
1 Better Bottle carboy
5 mini kegs
3 plastic fermenting buckets
several stoppers for fermenting carboys/buckets
filtered funnel
thermometer
hydrometer
fermometer
large stirring spoon
2 large boiling pots
stainless steel strainer
a billion bottle caps
turkey basters
siphoning tubes

And there's plenty more to get.