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After sifting through an assortment of ideas I've settled on Twelfth and High Brewing Company. The back story? It's the intersection I live on. I felt like it had good appeal, easy for remembering and a semi-classic feel.

I'm only brewing my first batch and am using a pail. For. This. Exact. Reason. The more I see, the more I want. If I can't see the beer...I am more likely to allow my patience to take control and get a great beer. If I can see it, I'm gonna keep checking this and that and test so often I'll end...

So I'm sitting here enjoying a Free State Wheat State Golden, reading over things, getting my brew station reorganized per SWMBO's request, when it occurs to me it's been 12 hours since I went to primary...time to uncover my pail and check airlock activity. NOTHING! So, by way of the magical...

Thanks I definitely will. I'm planning on 3 weeks primary. No secondary. Until tax season, I'll be bottle carbing, then I'm hoping to switch to kegging. I'll keep everyone posted on how this goes! Impatience will be my bane, but I think for the sake of an awesome beer I'll make it.

I actually did this the morning of the brew before use. Though I've posted here a few times in the last couple weeks, I have mostly been lurking and learning. Absolutely. Carbon monoxide, burn the house down, etc. I was using it in a corner area of a screen porch with a brand new fire...

It doesn't look much like it from that but it's actually on a screened in porch. Which isn't a heck of a lot better....but it's something.

Beginning and end of my first batch. My buddy came to help, and thank goodness for it. The 40 minute boil, plus the fact that I'm pretty sure I didn't use my auto-siphon correctly.

Hopefully someone out there reads this....should I continue stirring after I add the lme and it returns to boil? (once hops are in) This is why I called it chronicles of a rookie

My new bells kit showed up last night. As soon as I had everything unpacked I immediately sanitized everything. It is now brew day, I am typing this in preparation to re-sanitize all of my brew day equipment and begin brewing my brewers best weizenbier extract. I'll be posting pictures and...

I'm starting my bb weizenbier tomorrow! My first batch as well! Welcome to this fantastic addiction and best of luck. As said above relax, don't worry, have a micro brew....till your homebrew is done

That's a pretty awesome deal. I'm hoping to move to kegging in tax season if there's money left over from the rest of our plans.

Complete envy is what I feel right now. Not only do I love beer, and I'm just now getting into HB, I am also a wood nerd, the knotty pine all over your pictures has my blood flowing like a white water rapid. Beautiful construction through all of this, hope my basement looks this good one day.

My kit is on order! Should have it in about a week. Good luck to you, can't wait to hear about your brew! DWHAHB

It's probably obvious but there are no dumb questions I guess....what is RO water? And I am planning on probably using jugged distilled water.

Well...have 3 versions. My phones a freakin piece. Anyway, there they are. Input is appreciated!

Just typed that entire thing out...it wouldn't post. Here's a screen shot of the page.

Alkalinity, total - 200 Calcium - 63 Chloride - 30 Conductivity - 570 Corrosivity - 0.085 Hardness, total - 190 Magnesium - 9.3 PH - 7.6 Phosphorus - 0.18 Potassium - 1.6 Silica - 29 Sodium - 48 Solids, total dissolved - 350 Sulfer - 23 Zinc - 0.015 Arsenic - .0061 Barium - 0.20 Chromium -...

Well there's me feeling like a *******. I'll just transcribe everything it says. Heaven forbid a link actually work. Next post will have the transcribed version.

I am still planning on doing a fully up to date test, and possibly just using bottled distilled water, but I thought I'd pop up the PDF report for 2012 of my citys water. Let me know if there's any reason for immediate concern please. Here's the link...