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About Me: I'm nothing to look at. Just a regular guy, ex-husband, father of two girls, teens, working too much, needing to do too much, great girl friend, down to one dog and trying to be down to no cats (unsuccessful thus far).rn I have been teaching since the late 70's, became a chiropractor in the 90's and still do both. I'd love to be back full time teaching with a bit of land, a large garden, a small building dedicated to brewing, cooking and food storage, a home swimming pool, and a riding lawn mower. Always wanted a riding lawn mower. And maybe a couple of cows, a couple of pigs, some chickens and a smart dog.rn I enjoy a couple of beers a day (a bit more on weekends), a couple of smokes a day, 3 - 4 good hard workouts per week (had to quit playing racquetball - it was breaking me down), cooking meats various ways but like the veggies better and am a true carb lover. Starches rock! But then, so does gravy. OK, food rocks.rn I can keep it under 200 if I try or get sick. I
General Interests: Working out,yard work,gardening and brewing.
Occupation: Chiropractor and instructor at a local Community College
Favorite Music: That which I like.
Favorite Movies: Those I can watch over and over again; too many to name. No true favorite really. No comedies either.
Favorite Television Shows: TV? Ok, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. All science TV, travel TV and food shows. What a geek!
Favorite Books: Those that I am willing to read a bit over two pages at a time per day.
Home Brewing Biography: I love beer. Nice to be able to make that which tastes great. I had looked into getting into it in the 80's but just didn't get around to it. Last year my nieces husband's father mentioned that he had brewed some beer so I looked into it again and found the inevitable Mr Beer and tried it. Loving it ever since.rnrnPast and current recipes are too many to list here. I keep a personal blog in case I lose my log book. Still only extracts and, of course, meads, but planning on moving to grains soon. Here's the blog: http://markshomebrewlog.blogspot.com/
Future Brews: Many things, mostly beers. But also a couple more meads; one traditional and one apricot melomel.
Primary: A rich Barley Wine made with 9lbs Maris Otter extract and fermenting with WLP-090, San Diego Super Yeast
Secondary: All meads; JAOM, traditional Huckleberry, pineapple/mango melomel and a blackberry/blue berry melomel. Beer - Hop Scare IPA which has also been dry hopped with two oz cascade and 2 oz galena.
Bottled: A lot. Aging now. Priors - 5 Ales, 2 Reds, 1 Barley Wine, 1 Wheat(hated it), 4 IPA's, 2 Stouts, and 1 Cider(about 7mo old now).
Kegged: And IPA and an ALE(Coopers). Currently have the HopScare IPA in the keg as secondary and am drinking an English Bitter in a keg. (It makes a nice black and tan with Guiness)
Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship

City: Dallas

State/Province: Texas

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Just a little reassurance on 05-22-2013 at 08:33 PM
That's what I wanted to hear! 6 months? A year? Wow! I now feel no rush. Much more fun.Thanks
guys.
Posted in thread: Just a little reassurance on 05-22-2013 at 08:23 PM
I have two 5gal batches of beer that have been in the first stage fermenter for 6 weeks now.
One is a wee heavy and the other is a rye.I cant do anything with them until this Sunday. The
plan is to ke...
Posted in thread: National Homebrew Day - May 4th 2013 on 05-01-2013 at 06:55 PM
Interestingly, and just FYI, May 4th this year is also Nude Gardening day.
Posted in thread: Multiple strain fermentation on 04-19-2013 at 10:56 PM
I've been having unusually good luck with my brews ever since I started this brewing thing. I
think a big part of that is due to the good info I get here. Today's question is related to
using multiple...
Posted in thread: Rye recipe on 02-25-2013 at 06:32 PM
Thanks dcp27. I'll look at my extract to see what the percentage is. If you are correct,
perhaps I can get some rye malted grain to steep with it.@inhousebrew, I'll look into those
recipes from NB. I'...
Posted in thread: Rye recipe on 02-20-2013 at 04:03 PM
I'm about to do a rye with 5lbs of pale extract and 3.3lbs of rye extract. The hops will be
Kent Goldings, probably six oz and SA-04 yeast.Just looking to see if anyone has done one
similar and has an...
Posted in thread: A message to extract brewers. on 02-07-2013 at 07:43 PM
Time for my two cents - I have done many, many extract brews, most very good tasting if I have
the patience to let them age well, and a couple of really, really good ones. I have only done
one AG. It ...
Posted in thread: HomeBrewTalk 2013 Big Giveaway! on 02-05-2013 at 02:17 PM
Oh yeah!!
Posted in thread: Carbination disaster on 02-05-2013 at 02:16 PM
I'd thought of that. Unfortunately, my auto syphon is 3/4 inch. Time to invest in the 1/2 inch.
And although I had this problem with the first two I opened, which are either the first two I
filled or ...
Posted in thread: Carbination disaster on 02-01-2013 at 07:46 PM
Do an experiement. Using a clean carboy, add your liquid priming sugar and then siphon in five
gallons of water on top of it. You can see the schlearing and refraction waves of the unmixed
sugar. A bi...

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