Hello all!
I've been brewing beer as of mid March of this year. I've been making wine since 2006, mainly from kits, but also from grape juice; my first real harvest from grapes I planted in '06 will be this year. I got some last year but harvested them to early and the wine was to acidic to fix.
Anyway, not being much of a beer drinker but having all that fermenting equipment laying around I decided to try beer making anyway. Well, a ton of money later, I've brewed 30 gallons so far with only 2 batches being mini-mashes and the rest all grain. I did an IPA first from a mini-mash (to much hops for me little did I know, Beersmith says IBU of 54, I now know that is out of my "range") done a Honey Brown from a mini-mash kit thats currently kegged and aging which I think is pretty good, a "light-ish" style nondescript beer for my wife that's also kegged and ageing that I think turned out fantastic (she actually tasted a little that I had after filtering and carbed in a soda bottle and said "That's good!"), an Irish Red that might be infected but I'm going to let it go and see what happens, and 2 of my own recipes thrown together in Beersmith for a Blonde Ale and an Amber Ale; I'd certainly say I'm hooked. I've been reading here since March and see there is a wealth of information on this site. Hope you can bear with another noob!
I've been brewing beer as of mid March of this year. I've been making wine since 2006, mainly from kits, but also from grape juice; my first real harvest from grapes I planted in '06 will be this year. I got some last year but harvested them to early and the wine was to acidic to fix.
Anyway, not being much of a beer drinker but having all that fermenting equipment laying around I decided to try beer making anyway. Well, a ton of money later, I've brewed 30 gallons so far with only 2 batches being mini-mashes and the rest all grain. I did an IPA first from a mini-mash (to much hops for me little did I know, Beersmith says IBU of 54, I now know that is out of my "range") done a Honey Brown from a mini-mash kit thats currently kegged and aging which I think is pretty good, a "light-ish" style nondescript beer for my wife that's also kegged and ageing that I think turned out fantastic (she actually tasted a little that I had after filtering and carbed in a soda bottle and said "That's good!"), an Irish Red that might be infected but I'm going to let it go and see what happens, and 2 of my own recipes thrown together in Beersmith for a Blonde Ale and an Amber Ale; I'd certainly say I'm hooked. I've been reading here since March and see there is a wealth of information on this site. Hope you can bear with another noob!
