I hate these things because I never know where to start or what to share, so I will start with the basic profile info. I am 38, male living in VA (Bealeton) with my wife. We moved away from the city a 3 years ago and have been embracing the simple life of the country trying to make things ourselves and grow a lot of our own food. We have decided to keep bees next year and this naturally led into me looking at making my own mead. Of course this led to researching making my own fruit wine since we have so many wild berries on our property; which naturally led to looking at making beer. Before this evolution my wife often asked if I was interested in making my own beer and I just dismissed it with a shrug and "not really". The more I read the more interested I became, then I learned one of my buddies was getting into home brewing. Unfortunately just after finishing his first batch he was diagnosed with celiac and I think gave up on the idea of brewing. Since I was in research mode I began researching brewing gluten free beer and have been encouraging him to give it a go (he has not found any bottle GF beers he likes).
Anyway, I kept toying with the idea that maybe I should just give it a go (brewing and evetnually brewing GF), but kept putting it off. Then one day my wife and I are in the local Good Will looking for som ethrifty finds (seriously I am amazed what you can find in there on the cheap) and my wife just grabs my hand and pulls me over to a shelf, points and says, "is that a complete kit". I look at the box she is pointing to and it appears to be a complete "Brewers Best" Homebrewing kit (the kind with the two plastic buckets). I take the box up front ask if I can look through it to see if anything is missing and they agree. I begin looking and realized the kit was "brand New" in that it had never been used. Istill had the inspection tags in it everything was wrapped etc. As a bonus it had an ingredient kit inside. I looked at the ingredients and realized it was out of date (the yeast was all that was dated) and looked unusable. As a result I got them to reduce the price and got the whole kit for $15, thus my excuses to not brew were over.
So that is who I am why I am looking at brewing and how I got into it. I am very new to this and I know I will have lots of questions and I expect to make lots of mistakes. just be gentle with me when correcting me.
Anyway, I kept toying with the idea that maybe I should just give it a go (brewing and evetnually brewing GF), but kept putting it off. Then one day my wife and I are in the local Good Will looking for som ethrifty finds (seriously I am amazed what you can find in there on the cheap) and my wife just grabs my hand and pulls me over to a shelf, points and says, "is that a complete kit". I look at the box she is pointing to and it appears to be a complete "Brewers Best" Homebrewing kit (the kind with the two plastic buckets). I take the box up front ask if I can look through it to see if anything is missing and they agree. I begin looking and realized the kit was "brand New" in that it had never been used. Istill had the inspection tags in it everything was wrapped etc. As a bonus it had an ingredient kit inside. I looked at the ingredients and realized it was out of date (the yeast was all that was dated) and looked unusable. As a result I got them to reduce the price and got the whole kit for $15, thus my excuses to not brew were over.
So that is who I am why I am looking at brewing and how I got into it. I am very new to this and I know I will have lots of questions and I expect to make lots of mistakes. just be gentle with me when correcting me.
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