Bluenoser

[mash-mongrel]

Hello fellow hobbyist.

I have been brewing hand picked fruit since 2009 and had moderate success as well as concentrated juices being some of my best tasting wines and ciders. All of my carboys are always filled with recipes made from scratch.

I have always wanted to switch over to making beer but the one and only kit that I brewed was a waste of time and money. I find wine kit brewing boring and I would expect the same from beer, if you could find something you like the taste of.

It's finely come to time where the funds have been raised and the equipment has been purchased for a winter of all grain brewing.

 

[trussell]

Bluenoser? Are you in NS? Just wondering, grew up in the Annapolis valley.

 

[Bandit-brewer]

Welcome. The wife was born in Lunenburg and raised into her twenties on the south shore. Good folks there. You'll learn lots here.

 

[mash-mongrel]

Bluenoser? Are you in NS? Just wondering, grew up in the Annapolis valley.

I'm been in NS for 34 years now working on the Bay Of Fundy. Quiet here, thinks are slowing down more and more as our youngsters chase after riches thought found in the oil patch.

As you are well a where of, oil prices are dropping. While X-mas visiting, I'm hearing bad news of people getting laid off and retuning home.

I usually head to Foots Family Farm in the fall to pickup a truck load of apples used to make cider. Beautiful there, which holds true for most of Canada.

Welcome. The wife was born in Lunenburg and raised into her twenties on the south shore. Good folks there.

I've only visited Lunenburg a few times, once I purchased a motorcycle from a RCMP officer who asked for my driver's license, I didn't have one at the time. Luckily, just then, his wife returned home after being away for two weeks. I handed him the cheque, hopped on the bike and drove it four hours to get home.

 

[Cyclman]

Welcome to the group, from Colorado.

 

[trussell]

I'm been in NS for 34 years now working on the Bay Of Fundy. Quiet here, thinks are slowing down more and more as our youngsters chase after riches thought found in the oil patch.

As you are well a where of, oil prices are dropping. While X-mas visiting, I'm hearing bad news of people getting laid off and retuning home.

I usually head to Foots Family Farm in the fall to pickup a truck load of apples used to make cider. Beautiful there, which holds true for most of Canada.



I've only visited Lunenburg a few times, once I purchased a motorcycle from a RCMP officer who asked for my driver's license, I didn't have one at the time. Luckily, just then, his wife returned home after being away for two weeks. I handed him the cheque, hopped on the bike and drove it four hours to get home.

I lived in Kenville, for 21 years but took off for Silicon Valley North (as Ottawa was known 20 odd years ago. After a few years I moved to Chicago for work and have been in Chicago-land over 16 years.

Was back in Kentville this past summer and it didn't seem too prosperous. Yes the valley is beautiful. Too bad there isn't the jobs and so the young people, myself included, head off for bigger things. Still it's not all bad. If the economy was booming in NS things would get built up and some of the beauty would be lost.

Bet you had fun riding that motorcycle back from Lunenburg. Did you take Rt. 12 through New Ross?

 

[mackay85]

Hey, just joined today. Great to see a fellow bluenoser on the second page I checked out! I'm in Cole Harbour (just outside Halifax) and have been kit brewing for a couple years. Just getting into All Grain after assembling a mash tun and picking up the remaining gear I needed. Also, looking to convert a bar fridge into a kegerator and thought this would be a great resource for help with that.