re: Home Brewing Equipment

There's a metric truck-fun of info online. Lots of people homebrew these days. Look online, you probably have a homebrew shop in town or near enough you can go to and discuss with one of the employees who are almost assuredly super into it and can give you more info than you'll ever need. If not you can get all the equipment you need online. Lahomebrew.com is the homebrew shop in Baton Rouge. They're good folks. They'll ship anywhere, but you can also put in an order and pick it up. Northern brewer is probably the biggest online retailer. I haven't had problems with them, but I almost exclusively use lahomebrew when I can.

In short look online and you can find all the info you need. Also there are quite a few specialized forums that are good about helping noobs. Good luck. My only advice is that you don't need to, but can easily spend a fortune. Start with the essentials and if you take to it you can go from there because you'll know where you should best spend your money. That or pick up someone's old kit.