Lots of new equipment

Yesterday I struck a deal with a guy at work. He is getting out of the homebrew business, and I am getting in, so for $50, I got a good deal of (dusty) equipment.

6.5 Gallon carboy
6 gallon bucket with tap
airlock
hydrometer
carboy brush
bottle brush
Bottle capper
caps
bits of tubing
bottling wand
5x24 cases of empty bottles
4 swing top bottles
1.8 Kg (4Lbs?) Can of Muntons Nut Brown Ale hopped extract + yeast sachet (this is 11 years old!!!)
3.3 Lbs bag of Light Malt extract
Corn sugar
Gypsum

This very nicely complements the equipment I already have. I think I now have everything I need to do a 5 gallon batch (extract), without even going to the homebrew store.

Not sure if the 11 year old ingredients will be much good, but I'm going to try anyway, since I already have them.

The cases of bottles are made fro a sturdy cardboard. They should last well, provided they stay dry. Unfortunately, they have a mothball odour to them, but I guess this doesn't really matter, so long as I put sealed bottles in them. The other thing I'm unhappy about is the bottles have mostly Bud, Miller or Natural light labels (and it says so in the cases too). Hopefully the labels will come off, and I guess I can scribble over the boxes.

This weekend is lining to be pretty busy:
- Bottling of TBM
- drying of modified barley and wheat
- cleaning of new equipment
- Start 5 gallon batch

The barley and wheat are both continuing to germinate nicely. All shoots are between 50% and 75% of grain length. This should definitely be ready for drying by the weekend, if not before.