I am interested in this. Just curious: what is wrong with getting equipment from Taobao?

Beichen O'reilly's or green lake?

@latataille: nothing at all. beginners don't always know what they need and sometimes stuff on taobao (especially grains) can be poor quality so one of the things we can talk about in the meetups is what equipment we use / where we got it. All my equipment is on taobao and I have a list of all the sellers if anyone's interested. The KHS isn't about selling or promoting any particular equipment or products. One of the goals is to get an ingredients co-op going - you won't find much quality or variety on taobao when it comes to malts and often suppliers will only sell a metric tonne as a minimum - bit much for a single homebrewer.

@Philm: Beichen, sorry

When reading that headline, I was thinking about a completely different type of home-brewing. Something I think a lot of foreighners are doing on a daily basis.
... but I just realized it's called home-brooding.

I've done a fair amount of brooding myself when my beer's got infected :p

Time changed to 2030 to give people change to eat first. There's a wechat group to stay updated - find the QR code at www.meetup.com/Kunming-Homebrewing-Society/ or add me: xuedalong