Ok you all I am a new home brewer! I have done a few kits to date ie coopers and they have turned out pretty well. Now I think I am ready to start all grain brewing but i need help. I need to know essentially what will I need to start brewing my own beer like what equipment do I need to start etc any info would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance for your help

welcome to the craft. i would suggest you buy the book "How to Brew" by Jim Palmer or check out his website here, it is probably the best way to get started, i have found. after that you can go with whatever you want, or can afford, the sky 's the limit. good luck and good brewing.
gary

ok I picked up two corny kegs yesterday. Both in really good shape. I have read a few post in here about using these for secondary fermentation. am I correct in assuming that I can do this? Either by adding the priming sugar to the keg and letting it sit for x amount of time? Or force carbing the beer right after I transfer it to the keg with my CO2 tank? Which is better? Any ideas Thanks

You are correct about using kegs as secondary fermenters. I've use them as both primary and secondary fermenters.

As to whether forced carbonation or naturally carbonating in the keg is better is a more a matter of personal preferences. Neither is necessarily better.

Most brewers tend to force carbonate their kegs. However, I prefer to naturally carbonate my kegs though I also somethings force carbonate.

I suggest trying both methods and see which one you prefer.

- Scott

sounds good! I guess the only real difference is the time it takes to get a drinkable pint of brew huh.

I guess the only real difference is the time it takes to get a drinkable pint of brew huh.

That's right.

With forced carbonation with a bit of work one can carbonate you beer in a matter of hours.

I once was invited to a block party the morning of the event. I kegged my beer and force carbonated it that morning and the beer was consumed in the afternoon.

That is a pretty cool feature of kegging and the wonders of forced carbonation!

- Scott

5 Minutes at about 40 psi(thats what works for me) of force carbing & you should be good to go!!
Just dot over do it!!(FOOOAAAMMM!!!)
Welcome to the site. All grain is not that hard & can be done as cheaply or as expensive as you want.
When i switched to all grain i grabbed my old beer cooler, some stainless braid & a valve & had a mashtun! You can get by with one kettle & 1 burner also(pain in the behind but doable).
Her is a basic all grain how to i did on my site(i need to do a better more in depth one though)
But i might give you an idea. I got my buddy switched to all grain by having him build a mashtun from his old beer cooler. He heated strike water, ran it to the mash. heated sparge water, Drained mashtun into a bucket, Ran sparge water into mash tun, Set up kettle down below, siphoned in the 1st runoff, Fired it up, then ran the second running into kettle. He did that a couple times before getting a seperate hot liquor tank & burner. I did it like that one time & got a second setup cause its a pain. But very doable.
Good luck!!

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But i might give you an idea. I got my buddy switched to all grain by having him build a mashtun from his old beer cooler. He heated strike water, ran it to the mash. heated sparge water, Drained mashtun into a bucket, Ran sparge water into mash tun, Set up kettle down below, siphoned in the 1st runoff, Fired it up, then ran the second running into kettle.