Hello from Texas

[LS1M]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a habitual lurker; there's rarely any information that I need that I can't find via a search, and there are many many people with better responses than me, so I rarely reply. Anyway, I'm Mark, I live in Texas, I've done 8 extract kits, and on the last one I got ticked off because I dropped the glass carboy and splayed 5 gallons of a $50 porter kit all over the garage floor. Since then, I've vowed not to do any more extract kits because they're just too darn expensive. My very first all-grain recipe is bubbling in my home office right now, and I'm very excited; 5 gallons of robust porter cost me just $22!

Anyway, "howdy y'all"
-Mark

 

[AnonyBrew]

Welcome & enjoy the cost saving of going AG!

 

[Richabt]

Welcome! Making that leap wasn't as hard as you probably thought. Hope your first AG turns out great!

 

[Doc Robinson]

Howdy sucka!

 

[LS1M]

Wow, three replies in 10 minutes. This place is "hoppin" (pun intended)
I'm going to post my first AG experience in the all-grain forum. It wasn't hard at all, actually. I used what I think is called "batch sparging" - filled up the MLT three times to get my wort. 84% efficiency, if my calcs are right.

Thanks. Homebrewers are friendly people. (Come to think of it, I've been really grumpy the last few days. It's probably because I ran out of homebrew. Hmmmm....)

EDIT: here's my post. It's kind of long - sorry, I type a lot.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/first-ag-batch-long-151369/

 

[Brew-Happy]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a habitual lurker; there's rarely any information that I need that I can't find via a search, and there are many many people with better responses than me, so I rarely reply. Anyway, I'm Mark, I live in Texas, I've done 8 extract kits, and on the last one I got ticked off because I dropped the glass carboy and splayed 5 gallons of a $50 porter kit all over the garage floor. Since then, I've vowed not to do any more extract kits because they're just too darn expensive. My very first all-grain recipe is bubbling in my home office right now, and I'm very excited; 5 gallons of robust porter cost me just $22!

Anyway, "howdy y'all"
-Mark

Howdy from Lubbock

 

[IncredibleMulk]

Hello and Welcome from Dallas!

 

[ibbones]

Hola from South Texas.

 

[DragonTail]

Welcome

 

[LS1M]

Thanks all. Glad to be here. <resuming lurking research mode>.........