New guy from Central Florida

Just brewed my first beer and it's sleeping nicely in my closet for the second day of fermentation. It's a partial mash English Brown Ale. I had a great time with my first go-round but I had no idea that it would take as long as it did! Can't wait to taste the fruits of my labor but I'm gonna wait until it's really ready. I'll definitely be doing another soon... maybe even this week.

Looking forward to learning some good info here and hopefully make some local brewing friends.

---Chris

It's a partial mash English Brown Ale

......... nice. Good start.

Congrats, keep it up! I am from central Florida also. I just kegged an English Pale Ale.

Hello from Florida west coast

Welcome from the south.

Hi all!!
from Southern Michigan

welcome from Gainesville.

Hey Florida members, I will be traveling down to Orlando(Disney) soon, then over to west palm for a couple days. Are there any good microbrew type places I should hit in the general vicinity of those locations? I will definitely need it after a few days with Mickey.

hopjedi said:

Hey Florida members, I will be traveling down to Orlando(Disney) soon, then over to west palm for a couple days. Are there any good microbrew type places I should hit in the general vicinity of those locations? I will definitely need it after a few days with Mickey.

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New World of Beer just opened in West Palm.

101 N. Clematis Street
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
561-833-3325

Langiappe Brewing Co
60 Center St
Minneola, FL 34715

http://www.effinheimerbeer.com/Home.aspx

Fastest growing micro in Central FL.

awesome. thanks for the suggestions. will hit at least one of them.

I just wanted to say hello. I'm from Central Florida also. I am working on my third brew, a Pilsner. Just bought a fridge for $180.00 delivered to my door in three days. I think in Florida it’s a must, defiantly for lagers. Maybe I'll run into you as I want to join the Central Florida Home Brewers club that meet first Sunday of the month.
Take care, Happy brewing.

Court House,
Yup a fridge in Fl is almost mandatory especially if you want to do lagers. I have a mini fridge I got from wally world that I added an STC-1000 to and it is doing quite nicely right now. I use an "obsolete" 100 Watt incandescent llight bulb for heat and the fridge obviously for cooling. So far I have only run a 2.5 gallon Mt Beer in it, but I have accumulated the stuff to do a 5 gallon extract and have a hefe in the works. Unfortunately I think the 6.5 pail will not fit the fridge without some serious mods. So I am on the lookout for a decent mid sized fridge to put in my shop and work out of.
Bob