If I've inspired you to consider brewing I reccomend browsing the
bible of homebrew: "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing". It's
cheap, easy to read and tells you what you need to know without too
much info, then elaborates as you want to learn more. It is excellent.
Just to put this out of people's minds.. (Andrew, Timmeh..) if you're
really interested in brewing don't let the thought of needing to build
your own temperature controller stop you, temperature is not that
important! Really, just leaving it at room temperature is fine, even
with the daily fluctuations and such, from what I read. The way I
heard it explained making beer is a "weakest link" kind of thing, not
perfection related. For example not sanitizing well or not sealing the
fermenter properly could cause serious problems but boiling the wort
for 60 mins vs 65 minutes or letting it ferment at 70deg instead of
65deg probably doesn't make a lick of difference practically speaking.
I had the same thought but the reality is that other aspects are much
more important...
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