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Road Games - Allan Holdsworth

Hey! Big thanks to all of you... Your knowledge has made our intro to homebrewing a truly enjoyable and rewarding process!. My wife got us a Mr. Beer kit for xmas and as soon as I started researching I knew I was hooked... we now have 3 5gal batches going as well as the little mr beer...

Speed solving the rubiks cube, building guitar amps and fx and a lot of others :-P

I've been doing one brew each week on my day off... yesterday I did Caribou Slobber from nb... all went smooth. Next week will be my first bottling day (ahs double choc. stout)... One more month and my pipeline will be running!! :ban: No real reason for this post other than I'm excited :D

Wow I though everyone had spotify :confused: If you like music then you'll thank me later :)

I was randomly listening to some Woody Guthrie interviews and came across him talking about his homebrew experiences! :rockin: On the interview/album called "American Radical Patriot" there is a track called "The Gang Of Kids Woody Hung Around With".. Fast forward to about 2:15...

This is pretty much how I hope it turns out... something nice and light to take out into the yard when springtime rolls around. I went for low ibu so that I can share with my mom and my basic beer friends lol.

Considering that it's only my second batch... if it tastes like beer then all is well :p

So I went to the lhbs with a shopping list for "easy blonde ale" but came out with some substitutions... It's a blonde ale with citra at 2 minutes... going for sort of a beachy blonde lol It's a 4gal batch... now fermenting in 5gal bb og was 1.049-1.05 ish Batch Size: 4 gallons...

It's a fun area... super diverse and everyone is really nice.

I went ahead and ordered another bucket and a recipe kit today :D

No secondary huh? I though maybe just to free up my bucket but I also know it increases my chances of messing up my batch. I guess I totally need another primary... I have time to brew once a week and I know when my off days come around I'm going to be wishing I had another primary bucket...

Yesterday was my first brew day. I did the AHS double chocolate stout kit... liquid extract/specialty grains. I did a full boil and reduced the hops based on beersmith calculations. I researched for a couple of weeks and watched many hours of brewing videos so I was prepared. Everything went...

Hi everyone... I've been lurking for two weeks non stop lol My real name is Chris Brown but everyone calls me Birdsnake irl... I'm from the Ft Worth/Dallas area. My wife gave me mr beer for xmas which got me into research mode... fast forward a few weeks and I'm now the proud owner of...