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alex_wilkosz

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Well hello all, I decided to join the brewing world and have found this site now. I must clue all my future mentors into my trials and tribulations so far:

It starts in January, I got a beginners kit from Northern Brewer, and a few other things. February 14 was my first brew, a Belgian White Ale. It ended up a bit darker than i had planned, but was quite good, ended up with an alcohol content of about 12%.

Since then I have not brewed again, sadly, summer was terrible working full time to save money for graduate school.

But alas! I have now purchased another carboy to have 2, and I have ordered 2 more kits. An English Brown Ale and an American Ale and will likely brew both in the next few weeks to get my carboys filled up and bubbling!

I look forward to my teacher's (you all) advise and leadership!
 
You must be a natural! It's really hard to brew a good beer with that high an ABV beer. I have brewed over 30 batches and only tried it a couple batches ago. Congrats man!!!!

:tank:
 
Welcome to the obsession. Don't worry, you'll still brew in grad school, I've done over 50 batches while working on my PhD.
 
you did do a glorious job hitting 12% on your first brew... i think i will have to share teh captins daughter recepie with you.... nothing like trying for 22% and i know you like it
 
Congrats on the beer!!!! What are you studying at U of I? I've got quite a few friends in the college of music over there.
 
yeah..i do! im trying to find a cheap chest freezer down here if possible..otherwise ill use my ingenuity to build a cabinet.....

and my 12% alchy content Belgian Ale---Beautiful! i had help from my friend who is posting on here as well. adam. but it turned out great....a bit darker than a normal Beligian actually, not sure why, i know we added more honey than we were supposed to, but im guessin that helped with the content to be higher, it turned out great! PROST!
 
yooper - pretty darn good....it ended up darker that would normal. but it was darn good..still got about 15 bottles of it..id share if anyone were located near me here
 
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