New from Iowa

Hi all. I am very new to homebrew. I am brewing my second batch tomorrow, IPA. First batch was a Belgian Wit...wit lot's of mistakes!:smack:
I hope you good folks don't mind my chiming in to ask some dumb questions.

Welcome aboard. You may check out the stickies at the top of the Beginners forum and Revvys bottling thread,lots of good info that will answer a lot of question you did not know you even had. How long until you bottle the Wit?

Welcome and congrats on your first two batches!

What part of Iowa? And welcome to your new addiction....

CloverBrew said:

What part of Iowa? And welcome to your new addiction....

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actually, not far from you. I live in Maquoketa, just south of Dubuque. I am hoping to bottle my Wit in about 2 weeks. Already doing research for my next batch.

Welcome - NE Iowa here..... grew up in Cascade though, right down your way.

No kidding. I'm from Dubuque. I live south west of town by the airport.

I guess I didn't make too many mistakes on my first batch because its been a big hit with everyone I know. I bottle my second batch next week. Just taking a break right now from cleaning bottles.

Yay, Iowans! I'm originally from Mason City, and now live in North Liberty...we should organize a meet-up some day. Maybe we could drink beer?

Neil

Braufessor said:

Welcome - NE Iowa here..... grew up in Cascade though, right down your way.

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Yeah, pretty close. I don't think you'd wanna be there now...Maquoketa river is out of it's banks ...again.

Randomnoob said:

No kidding. I'm from Dubuque. I live south west of town by the airport.

I guess I didn't make too many mistakes on my first batch because its been a big hit with everyone I know. I bottle my second batch next week. Just taking a break right now from cleaning bottles.

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I probably drive right by your place going to work everyday...I work in Dubuque and like taking Military/Swiss Vally road....when it don't snow.:cross:

tkerugger said:

Yay, Iowans! I'm originally from Mason City, and now live in North Liberty...we should organize a meet-up some day. Maybe we could drink beer?

Neil

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Yeah! Now we gotta hook up with some of those folks from the "designated drivers" forum!:rockin:

Braufessor said:

Welcome - NE Iowa here..... grew up in Cascade though, right down your way.

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you live in calmar huh?, do you ever get into Decorah? they have a pretty snazzy brewery called Topoling Goliath. great stuff. check it out if you havn't already

gwapogorilla said:

Hi all. I am very new to homebrew. I am brewing my second batch tomorrow, IPA. First batch was a Belgian Wit...wit lot's of mistakes!:smack:
I hope you good folks don't mind my chiming in to ask some dumb questions.

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Welcome, and we've all made lots of mistakes. Hopefully some of our will help prevent or remedy some of yours. Ask away!

Good to see another Iowan on board, I'm in the Des Moines Metro Area.

Welcome! and don't forget us (me) in Ames!

Quad cities here. Son goes to IA State!

JPR said:

Quad cities here. Son goes to IA State!

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Hahaha I go there too... Nothing like brewing out of a small apartment! Hahaha

Yep. Swiss Valley road and Military road are pretty much my neck of the woods. I usually don't go that way in to town unless I'm going to the west end. Most of the time I take 151 down to Locust and then get everything I want at Hy-Veer or drive up 20. Snow hasn't been too bad this year, for the second year in a row.

CloverBrew said:

you live in calmar huh?, do you ever get into Decorah? they have a pretty snazzy brewery called Topoling Goliath. great stuff. check it out if you havn't already

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Yep - go there quite regularly. Decorah has a few other good bars downtown with some great selections - Was at a bar/restaurant on saturday in Decorah called The Rubyiat - they had Stone IPA, Arrogant Bastard and Ruination all on tap Nice options for such a small town.