RagingBull
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Hi all, from beautiful Erwin, NC deep in the middle of nowhere and the capital of absolutely nothing to do. My friends call me Bull, long story short, got the nickname from an incident in a biker bar many years ago! Little about me, I come from a long line of WV Appalachian Moonshiners, joined the Navy at 17 to see the world but mostly to avoid working in the coal mines. Married Carolina girl and eventually ended up here in Erwin. Don't know the first thing about brewing, but having spent 21 years in the Navy I think I know quite a bit about consuming beer! Anyhow, the wife bought me a (oh no!) mr Beer for my birthday. It came with three kits, Mexican Cerveza, Oktoberfest and grand bohemian Czech pilsner. Of the three I probably didn't care much for the Cerveza so I figured I'd start with that in case I screwed it up it wouldn't matter as much. I followed the instructions to the letter and by the end of the day had those little teasties happily gorging themselves and bubbling away. While it was fermenting I started studying and hitting the forums and quickly learned that the one week mr beer fermenting time would yield drinkable beer, not really good beer, so o kept my first batch in the keg for 2.5 weeks. I tasted the beer before I bottled it, and to my surprise, it tasted really good, although flat. Bottled the beer according to instructions an put it away in the utility room to condition. At two weeks i'm going to take out one bottle and put it in the fridge for a week, the try it out. Then again at three, and if everything goes well the rest at four or later. I now have the Oktoberfest fermenting and based on what I've learned on this and other forums, I think I'll leave it in the fermented for three weeks before bottling. Looking forward to getting to know y'all. I know there isn't supposed to be such a thing as a stupid question, but I'll probably test that theory to the limit. If I get out of hand, just give me a dog biscuit and a home brew and send me to my crate.
Thanks,
Bull from beautiful Erwin, NC
Thanks,
Bull from beautiful Erwin, NC