New in Salt Lake

A big thanks for all of you experienced brewers out there. I'm a relatively new empty nester who has picked up brewing ales a little over a year ago. Wife says, "it's about time you got a hobby, it's good for you." I have been using extracts... typical recipe.. 6 lbs alexander's munich malt, two lbs cyrstal malt grains, 1oz pearl hop at boil, 1 oz cascade for flavor, and 1 oz cascade at secondary. I would really love to try to do all grain, but really don't know how or the equipment needed. I'm also debating whether to do a guiness clone..I found this site a couple of days ago, and just keeping reading the articles... valuable stuff. Look forward to reading more....

Welcome to the site. I read your write up on the DeBroux/ORRELSE thread. Welcome.

kurtm said:

A big thanks for all of you experienced brewers out there. I'm a relatively new empty nester who has picked up brewing ales a little over a year ago. Wife says, "it's about time you got a hobby, it's good for you." I have been using extracts... typical recipe.. 6 lbs alexander's munich malt, two lbs cyrstal malt grains, 1oz pearl hop at boil, 1 oz cascade for flavor, and 1 oz cascade at secondary. I would really love to try to do all grain, but really don't know how or the equipment needed. I'm also debating whether to do a guiness clone..I found this site a couple of days ago, and just keeping reading the articles... valuable stuff. Look forward to reading more....

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I'm with you on the ales! Sounds like you're really working the extract angle. I haven't done an AG yet,either, but it sounds like you're about as close as you can get to it without actually being there. I just got a Bitter bottled. Tried an experiment where I ran one batch through primary and secondary ( 7 days each) and the other one stayed in primary the whole time. Bottled almost a week ago. Can't wait to try one against the other. I'm betting on the first one being better. My next project is going to be a coffee stout that I want to lay up until the Fall. We'll see how it goes.
You've come to a great place. There are many great brewers here. You can always find a second ( and third) opinion on any question you might have, but everybody is willing to share their experience. They're a good group.

Enjoy,
Sudsmonkey