drinkdrankpunk
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When I got home from Afghanistan in 2012 after spending the whole deployment planning how I was going to get into brewing I built myself a pretty decent three tier stand to brew 5 and 10 gallon AG batches. I had a few months brewing on that then and had nothing but great results, every batch I made was fantastic. a few months later I had to move to Germany. knowing that in Germany I would not have a garage and be living in an apartment I sold my set up and set myself up to be able to brew one gallon batches on the stove. So since I have been here in Germany I have brewed 5 one gallon batches. So far 4 have been fails the 5th was bottled yesterday, so we will see. first two batches were kits for an Irish red and the White House Honey Porter. I had a bottle of each of those and I thought both had a strange band aid taste. and since those two bad ones they all seem weird to me. second was another kit of the white house honey ale and a recipe I scaled down from a friends 5 gallon recipe. I bottled these both in swing top bottles and both are flat. WTF. this is really starting to suck. last batch is a recipe I found for a vanilla bourbon porter. that I just bottled I am really hoping it comes out right other wise I may just have to take a break from brewing.
On a side note since my beers have sucked since I got here I got into making mead and wine too. so I got a batch of raspberry mead aging and a peach wine aging and a batch of JAOM doing its thing in the closet right now. so maybe in a few more months I will have some sort of success with something.
On a side note since my beers have sucked since I got here I got into making mead and wine too. so I got a batch of raspberry mead aging and a peach wine aging and a batch of JAOM doing its thing in the closet right now. so maybe in a few more months I will have some sort of success with something.