chandler71
Member
My experience with beer has been an adventure to say the least. I started out drinking Coors light, and Budlight with my buds while playing golf and watching my Dawgs play ball. I met this sexy young woman who was drinking these weird beers in bottles with crazy looking labels on them. She kept drinking this one called Terrapin that she liked. So I go out to dinner one night, and I see this beer called a Terrapin Rye Pale Ale, so I order it up. I take a big swig of this stuff, and wonder what the heck is wrong with this woman. This stuff is bitter... wow i thought. I did manage to drink it all. Well our relationship grew, and I started trying diffrent craft beers, and my pallate changed along the way, and now I was searching out every craft beer I could try. BTW, Terrapin Rye Pale Ale is one of my favorite brews, and I enjoy going over to the local brewery and doing the brewery tours, although my cabinets are over flowing with pint glasses that I have gotten from them. I joined up with Beer Advocate, and have read so much about craft beers, and we have a local pub named Trapezze that does a tremendous job of always having something new and great on tap. It also helps that our local bottle shop Five Points Bottle has around 1500 diffrent beers to chose from. I love IPA and Stouts. My girl friend laughs now when she sees me drinking a Stout.. she says" and to think all you used to drink is water beer, and now your drinking stouts.. You have come a long way my dear". So I am a Beer freak now. For Thanksgiving her brother comes down, and has a bottle of beer that he has homebrewed. I had a sample and then I was hooked line and sinker.. I mean what could be better than brewing your own beer? I had my girl friend order me a kit for Christmas from Midwest Supplies, and I just brewed my first batch last night. I have an IPA sitting in my closet fermenting now... YAY. I found this website a few weeks ago, and have been reading, and laughing at some of the stuff that I have seen posted. I have learned a lot in the last few weeks from this site, and also some books I have read. I look forward to this journey, and hope to learn and contribute lots more. Thanks for this great resource, and Hello from Athens, Georgia.. Home of the Georgia Bulldogs!!!
