I was going to do brew in a bag but found this in a skip
and the heater worked so had my hot water boiler for free
so the pan I had bought off ebay £50 then became my wort boiler
and an old bouclair burner from the camping days .
old coolbox became the mashtun
and £50 worth of 10 mm copper pipe made the chiller
me and a mate are in it together and with the stuff to brew 3 lots of 40 pints and plumbing fittings are out £100 each so the first pints have cost about £1.75 taking in to account energy
We have a local brew shop so grains and hops cost £13 for a brew the next beers will be about £0.35 a pint if we write off the equipment :D