I want to start making beer

We certainly can help you. Let me first ask a couple questions that with your answers will guide us on how best to get you started.

First, do you have a budget for your equipment? You can get started by purchasing used equipment on the cheap for $100 or so, or you can spend $500 or more on new stuff.

Second, what is your living arrangement? Are you in a house where you can use a gas burner outdoors, or are you limited to a kitchen range? If a kitchen range, is it gas or electric?

A quick way to get the gist of what you can expect when homebrewing beer is to read the book How to Brew by John Palmer. It's usually around $15 on Amazon and is a highly recommended book for homebrewers.

 

Also, where do you live?

Cheers!

 

Papagoose is absolutely correct. Purchase that book by John Palmer. Equipment can become pricey, you may want to buy a beer making kit the first time you brew.

 

Also, what does your free time look like? Brewing the beer isn't the end of it. There's also a lot of time spent cleaning/sanitizing, packaging, and equipment upkeep.

 

Huh?

 

Here is a reddit thread on homebrewing in the Netherlands.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/xx1ltl/the_joys_of_brewing_in_the_netherlands/
Find a homebrew shop and homebrewers' club to get some local advice on starting up.

 

As @moodenba posted above, I suggest you seek out your local homebrew shop and purchase your starter equipment, and ingredients for your first batch, there.

A book that is often recommended is John Palmer's How to Brew book:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Brew-Everything-Great-Every/dp/1938469356

And please use this forum when you have any questions in your future homebrewing endeavors.

Cheers!

 

So the 900 is your equivalent in American dollars?

And it sounds like you are renting an 85 sqft room, not an apartment (you're not in a jail cell are you? ), and you don't have gas. So does that mean that you have an electric stove?

Your budget is adequate to get you the equipment needed to brew beer, but your access to a good heat source to boil the water and ingredients (wort) will be restricted to around 4-5 liters at a time. Electric stoves have a difficult time boiling a quantity of liquid larger than that, although it is possible. So you need to decide if brewing small batches is going to be worth your time. (The normal homebrewing batch size is 5 gallons, and it will take you almost the same amount of time to brew 5 liters as compared to 5 gallons.) You should Google 'small batch beer brewing' to get an idea of what is involved in that. It could help you make your decision of whether to proceed.

You might also Google 'self-contained beer brewing machines'. Your budget may not be enough to purchase one of these machines, but it's an option. With these machines, all you do is put ingredients in, allow them to boil, and then wait a week or so while the beer ferments. Then bottle it and wait a week for carbonation to build up inside the bottle, and then you can enjoy your beer. But a caution is needed here: some of these machines are under-powered and use a lot of electricity, or require an electrical hook-up with higher voltage.

Because you only have electricity for boiling your beer, you have some decisions to make before you jump into this hobby, i.e. about whether you'd be satisfied brewing small batches, and whether it's worth your time for a small return.

Get a copy of the How to Brew and read it to get an understanding of what is best for your situation. The book discusses equipment, ingredients, quality of your water, and the two basic ways of brewing beer (starting with water and a sweet powdered/flavored ingredient called extract brewing, or creating your own sweet liquid from grain to boil that is called the all-grain method). Read the book, you'll see.

 

It depends on the size of the electric heating element(s).

When I started homebrewing I boiled the wort using an electric range via partial boil and I made 5 gallon (20 liter) batches; I stopped off with tap water.

Cheers!

 

Yeah, I don't know why I was thinking of a full boil. I've never done one of those myself. A partial boil accomplishes the goal of beer-making, and then topping off with tap water helps cool the wort more quickly, so a partial boil has a benefit.

 

That should read topped off.

Cheers!

 

Now I'm confused. I thought you said you don't have a gas stove, thus electric has to be your way to boil the water to make beer.

Once we determine the size of each batch you'd like to make, then we can begin to decide what equipment you'll need. A boil kettle (size to be determined), and a fermentation vessel and air lock (size and type to be determined) are the two items that are definitely needed. Plus a stirring spoon, hydrometer, bottling bucket and bottles, or kegging equipment (depending on your preferred method to serve the beer) are also needed. That's enough to get you started using the extract method of brewing. If you decide later, then you can add a mash tun and related equipment to your equipment. I've probably missed something but we'll catch everything sooner or later.

Get a copy of How to Brew, that will keep everything organized for you.