My name is Chase, and I am a homebrewer.

[DrinkinSurfer]

Well I am a new homebrewer anyway. Right now I am brewing out of Honolulu, HI for the next few months until I move back to CA. I have my first batch in the primary and thank all of you for have already asking and answering all of my questions for me. This forum is a great resource. My first batch is a Belgian Dubbel. The OG was 1.063 and the recipe is:

• 7 ½ lbs Pale Liquid Malt Extract
• ¾ lb Crystal 40 Malt
• ¼ lb Belgian Special B Malt
• 1 lb Belgian Dark Candi Sugar
• 1 ½ oz Fuggle Pellet Hops (Bittering)
• ½ oz Fuggle Pellet Hops (Aroma)
• 1 Vial of White Labs 500 Trappist Ale Yeast
• ¾ c Corn Sugar (Priming)

That's for a 5 gal batch with a 30 minute steep on the grains. I slightly modified the recipe from my LHBS.

I look forward to being a long time member.

 

[Pappers_]

Welcome and good luck with your first brew!

 

[FlyinkibbleZ]

welcome! what part of CA are you moving back to?

 

[DrinkinSurfer]

Huntington Beach

 

[DragonTail]

Welcome

 

[DrinkinSurfer]

Thanks for the welcomes.

 

[starrfish]

"My name is Chase, and I am a homebrewer."

First of 12 steps! LOL!

1-admit your a homebrewer and join this forum
2-brew with a colored liquid hopped extract kit in your kitchen with dry yeast
3-hop your own colored liquid extract kit
4-use the lightest liquid un-hopped extract kit and steep your grains
5-switch to un-hopped dry malt extract
6-experiment with late addition dry malt extract and try liquid yeast
7-invest in a mash tun and go partial-mash with a 5 gallon mash tun
8-invest in a propane cooker, 10gallon brew pot, grain mill, a wort chiller, a refractometer, a 10 gallon mash tun, and retire your 5 gallon mash tun because it's too small!!!
9-teach a someone to brew
10-invest in brewing software
11-brew your first all grain full boil batch outside
12- build a crazy 3 tiered brew sculpture, grow your own hops, formulate your own recipes, work out best practices to bet better efficiency from your mash, play with ph & water chemistry, and be the envy of all your friends, who beg you for YOUR BEER!

welcome to the "life"! This place is the best place to start!

 

[DrinkinSurfer]

That is so poetic. It is exactly how I see the rest of my life playing out too. I'm hooked and my first batch is still in the primary.

 

[JonW]

Huntington Beach

Welcome from another HB brewer.