Recent content by Tokyo Brewnewb

I would just like to say that breaking out a few bottles of carbed applewein this past weekend went a long way toward mending things with the in-laws. Cheers! :mug:

I think the Texans are taking over!

Sorry I can't help you out with any China-centric homebrew info., but welcome fellow expat!

Wow. Maybe she was being told, "Alien! You go back to home planet now!" :D Hope she's doing all right over there. I haven't gotten any of that where I'm located. If anything, I get the opposite, usually drunk guys who, for whatever reason, find me rather interesting. I had one guy pass me at...

Ha! You want two at once, do you? お客さん、２本をいっぺんに注文するってちょっと困りますが・・・。 Not...

Welcome! :mug:

Through Google. Can't remember if it was my initial homebrew inquiry or a wine inquiry that brought me here, but it was the massive apfelwein post (and the prospect of learning something from brewlords like orfy :rockin:) that made me want to join up. Cheers!

Yeah, Austin was a really nice place to live. Old crotchety folk like me will tell you it was even better "back in the day," before Austin Stories aired on MTV and there was a massive influx of people as Austin became touted as "the next LA." Anyway... You know what I miss about Houston? The...

Another Texan here as well. :mug: Spent several years in Austin and Houston before packing up to move overseas. Anyway, welcome!

Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. :mug: The basic stuff (starter kits, extracts, yeasts, etc.) can actually be bought at specialty department stores, which is where I bought mine. The more advanced stuff (grains and so on) can be bought online at HBS that ship nationwide (this is a pretty...

Hi all, I'm a U.S. expat living for the long term here in Japan. I found this forum after getting online to research home brewing after getting fed up with what's available here: bland, expensive macro brew or tasty, incredibly expensive micro brew/import. Finally decided to give home...