Hello

You will need
A pot to boil in. (10 liters is enough for 20-25 liter but being able to boil all of the wort does make the beer taste better)

something to ferment in. A 25 liter bucket with a lid and a bubbler(waterlock) is what I use.

A siphon to transfer the beer.

Bottles and bottlecaps and a bottle capper. That is a machine to put the caps on the bottles.

A simple recipe is:
(kottar = whole hops)

3,0 kg mellanmörkt torkat maltextrakt/medium dark dried extract.
bitterhumle (60 min boil) /bitter hops
20 g Northern Brewer kottar 10,2% alfasyra
(or any other hop with the same alpha acid/alfasyra)
Smakhumle / taste hops (20 min boil)
20 g Kent Goldings kottar
aromhumle /aroma hops (5 min boil)
40 g Kent Goldings kottar
jäst /yeast
1028 London Ale or 1098 British Ale

Greeting from a dane Nike:-)

It should be avalible in the shop. Brew Hard Hallelujah Sorry - couldn't help it It's diffently not a joke, that I'm known here as "The Mad Dane"!!!!

Yeah and it was totally awesome I knew them before the competition, and liked them a lot so I voted for them of course:-) I think they're both great but also very entertainng with those masks. I went to Russia this summer in June since my wife is Russian, and I thought that since I normally spend a lot of money on brewing, I could buy The Arockalypse cheap. The city my wife comes from is Called Ryazan, which is about 300 km south east from Moscow, and even though things are heading in the right direction, the city is absoloutely not so westeren and fashionable as Moscow or Petersburg. I visited like every cd-store I possible could, and asked for the CD. And when I asked then "Do you have anything with Lordi, they asked "who"????? Then I had to say, those finnish guys who beated Dima Billan in the eurovision, and according to their face they didn't like that reminder :-) My wife also said that he sings like a chicken, just to put some more salt in the wound (in other words she don't like Billan)

Anyway - back to on-topic. I can, if you'd like, wright some more recepies. All you have to do, is to way what styles you're interested in brewing, apart from a standard Bitter. Strange there are no good shops in Finland. Even though I mash allgain (I have never breed any extract based beer) I can help you anyway.  I can also give you some theory if you'd like. Today I don't have much time though, since I'm gonna brew myself. I'm gonna brew an ale, that is very special. It is brewed totally like a typical märzen/oktoberfest, but it is top fermented with northwest ale yeast In other words it is like a fusion between german märzen/oktoberfest beer, and american ale Märzen-ale or what am I going to call it??? I like experimenting

And welcome to humle.se

Regards
-Jan

I always took the hops out when I was brewing extract. It isn't needed but it gets less messy. If you find it easier to leave them in, just let them. No need to make things more difficult than needed.

I think the brittish varities could work well in a scandinavian climate. I'm not very good with plats though.

Uh oh... I`ve been making some calculations on what it would cost to get all the equipment together,and it gets up to somewhere around 300€,at least. That`s quite a lot in my current situation. But I don`t wanna buy crappy equipment that needs to be changed in a few months or a year. A poor person can`t afford to buy cheap stuff,as they say.

That`s true;)

The kettles are just hard to find. I just remember that I paid 60€ for the 7.5L one I have. What about a mill? Won`t I need one to crush the barley?

Yeah I bet they are total fake those romours. Besides I think it is recommendable to get an alliminium kettle, because it's easier to get a good caramelisation of the vort than with steel and lead the heat better.