Viejo

Married, 6 kids (yours, mine and ours), living in the same Victorian house since 1979, which I have been meticulously restoring since 1988, while virtually ignoring my family as my kids were growing up. I started home brewing when I was first married in 1971, and kept at it despite consistently awful results until I finally made something drinkable, then quit. There weren't a lot of good resources around in those days. Just started brewing again in March 2012, with the encouragement of my younger brother who has made (and judged) really good beers for twenty years. I find that all-grain brewing appeals to me in a lot of ways: 1) It's a fine art that I can do on my own; 2) It's a cool science that gets better with research and development; and 3) I get to drink the results and share it with friends; 4) It goes really well with my love of making and eating food.