Bottoms Up from Gilbert, Arizona!

[houstonbg]

Hi all,

Name's Houston. By day, I'm an Account Manager for Vertical Measures, a content marketing agency based in Phoenix, Arizona. By night, I'm a home brew wannabe.

I just started home brewing. This morning, in fact. My brother bought me a Mr. Beer beer kit for my 23rd birthday (which was back in July on the 2nd) and I spent this morning getting it set up.

The recipe is the standard "Classic American Light," and if all goes well, I'll be drinking the fruits of my labors in 4 weeks.

I look forward to deeply entrenching myself in the forums here and can't wait to forge some friendships in the home brew community at large.

 

[Cyclman]

Welcome to the hobby, and the group, from CO

Basic Brewing has a great video on "doctoring Mr. Beer" http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=january-7-2012-doctoring-mr-beer

 

[Subdivisions]

My wife bought me an antiquated Mr. Beer kit at a garage sale which got me started. This was about 4 months ago and the yeast date was 2009. The yeast was obviously not going to be any good so I went to the LHBS and got some S-04 along with a pound of DME (to replace the alcohol booster that was like a rock). It turned out not too bad thanks to reading info on forums such as this. I'd been wanting to brew for many years and now since we've moved I have a nice cool basement and a wonderful woman who supports me in this hobby. She also loves the SWMBO tag.

 

[aStoutObserver]

Welcome to the best hobby around. Knowing our temperatures here in Arizona, make sure you are fermenting at a good degree.
Don't hesitate to ask me (and everyone around) for help on anything. I know that I personally for started with Mr. Beer as well.