RKW
Active Member
Hello all. I've been reading for a while here and decided to go ahead and get logged in, as it were.
I'm based in The Colony, Texas (DFW area), and have recently started homebrewing.
My first was a New Castle style Brown Ale kit, and I immediately upgraded to a 7 gallon boil pot and added a carboy for secondary fermentation. Just bottled the second brew, An Irish Red called "Eric the Red" by the magazine I got the recipe from. Had a brain fart moment when I needed to cool the wort down. Since I was doing the full boil I couldn't add ice like I did with the kit, but we got it down with a bathtub full of Ice water and I set up plans for some sort of chiller.
I decided on a CounterFlow Chiller and built it myself for about 50 bucks, with no soldering. Of course then I had to brew another batch even though I haven't even Cracked the first bottle of the Red yet. So I set out to write my own recipe. We'll see how successfull it ends up being , for now we'll leave it at this: it's an Rosemary(the herb) IPA that came out a bit to amber in color to be IPA.
Anyway that's my brewer's profile in a snapshot, new to the lifestyle but making plenty of headway. If you want to you can check out my blog. Fair warning it isn't just a brew blog so there's no telling what you might find.
Looking forward to the rest,
RKW out
I'm based in The Colony, Texas (DFW area), and have recently started homebrewing.
My first was a New Castle style Brown Ale kit, and I immediately upgraded to a 7 gallon boil pot and added a carboy for secondary fermentation. Just bottled the second brew, An Irish Red called "Eric the Red" by the magazine I got the recipe from. Had a brain fart moment when I needed to cool the wort down. Since I was doing the full boil I couldn't add ice like I did with the kit, but we got it down with a bathtub full of Ice water and I set up plans for some sort of chiller.
I decided on a CounterFlow Chiller and built it myself for about 50 bucks, with no soldering. Of course then I had to brew another batch even though I haven't even Cracked the first bottle of the Red yet. So I set out to write my own recipe. We'll see how successfull it ends up being , for now we'll leave it at this: it's an Rosemary(the herb) IPA that came out a bit to amber in color to be IPA.
Anyway that's my brewer's profile in a snapshot, new to the lifestyle but making plenty of headway. If you want to you can check out my blog. Fair warning it isn't just a brew blog so there's no telling what you might find.
Looking forward to the rest,
RKW out
