Greetings from The Microbe Brewery, Pittsburgh PA!

[JonnySax]

Hi everyone, I'm Jonny! My wife and I are starting homebrewing this weekend! I brewed years ago in college, but not since. I've spent a lot of time on here doing research and I think I got a pretty good setup so far... I knew I wanted to keg from the start, so I saved up! I got a two keg system, with a duel regulator and two Perlick faucets. I painted up and old fridge and I have a beautiful Keggerator in my basement ready to go. I just got all the ingredients I need for my first batch. Its going to be a Rasberry Amber Wheat. (I figured i would make something the wife would like first). Since we are both Biologists... It was a must that we name our little operation something cool! To our dismay, Mad Scientist Brewing was already taken, so we settled with The Microbe Brewery. I thought it was a nice play on a word. Anyway, I love the idea of tweaking recipes and coming up with some crazy stuff! I'm looking forward to interacting with all of you in the future! Cheers and happy brewing! I'll let you all know how my first batch comes out... if its good I'll post the recipe.

 

[JonnySax]

UPDATE! Well I had a successful first brew day. I was very obsessive about keeping everything clean. The only little mishap I had was I broke my Hydrometer as soon as i took it out of the package! I opened up the top of thed little protection tube and went to pull it out and I guess i put too much pressure on it and the bottom of the tube fell out! crash on the cement floor... oh well... i didnt get to take an initial gravity reading. It took a while for the fermentation to start since i did not use a starter, but i see foam forming at the top for the wort and I can see there is some pressure building up in my airlock. I think we are getting going! Lets hope it works!

 

[Hopper450]

It will work! Cheers!!