Hi from Korea... well from Korea but...

[keemokitty]

I'm originally from the States! I'm living in Korea teaching English. And man the beer here stinks! Haha! So my boyfriend and I are brewing over here too!

We started brewing last year. We are from Philadelphia (arguably the best beer state - Come on! Philly has the most cask ales!!) Anyway we love beer. We love brewing. We're currently brewing a kit as we have yet to do more than partial grain andddd we're working with what we have in Korea. Anyway, it's a winter ale and it should be ready in about 3 weeks : ) Yay!

Nice to meet you all and I look forward to chatting about beers and brewing. Happy Holidays!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Awww, come on. Hite, OB, and Cass are great!

 

[humann_brewing]

welcome, enjoy your stay. Are you able to get much in the way of specialty grains over there?

 

[Pappers_]

Welcome Kitty! Cheers!

 

[homebrewer_99]

Awww, come on. Hite, OB, and Cass are great!

What are three beers worse than Budweiser, Alex? Now give me "Crap that no one else knows" for $1 million...

Where are you in Korea? I'm coming over to Daegu/Waegwan for a couple weeks next month.

Have you tried dongdongju yet?

Incidently, I'm from Camden...just across the river, but both parents were born in Philly and I also lived in So Philly growing up.

 

[DragonTail]

Welcome

 

[Cheeto]

What are three beers worse than Budweiser, Alex? Now give me "Crap that no one else knows" for $1 million...

Where are you in Korea? I'm coming over to Daegu/Waegwan for a couple weeks next month.

Have you tried dongdongju yet?

Incidently, I'm from Camden...just across the river, but both parents were born in Philly and I also lived in So Philly growing up.

Welcome to HBT,
I lived in Korea for over a year, Uijeongbu, I did manage to find Hite dark at one place. and those Beef and Leaf places are just freaking amazing. I wish there was one here.

I take it that you do a bunch of online ordering ?

-Jason

Dongdongju is the devil

 

[Locorcr]

OB FTW........

 

[sethga]

Howdy I'm from Philly too.. I work with people on Korea, does that count? Good luck. Interested to hear how you find ingredients over there.

 

[dougugly]

Awww, come on. Hite, OB, and Cass are great!

I might sound crazy, but I miss those 64 oz. plastic growlers of OB for freakin $2!

This site is great. I learn something new every time I check it out. Are you getting your malt and grains by mail or did you find a homebrew supply shop in Seoul?

 

[Photomask]

Hello Kitty, (OK It's been done...)

Brings back bad memories of Beef Bulgogi, A-Town, Juicy Girls, OB and Soju. (Not necessarily in that order...)
I spent a year at Kunsan AB.

 

[keemokitty]

Things have been busy since the holiday here - teaching winter camps without Korean co-teachers can be a bit rough as i don't know any Korean really. I'm working on it

Anyway, in response...

What are three beers worse than Budweiser, Alex? Now give me "Crap that no one else knows" for $1 million...

Where are you in Korea? I'm coming over to Daegu/Waegwan for a couple weeks next month.

Have you tried dongdongju yet?

Incidently, I'm from Camden...just across the river, but both parents were born in Philly and I also lived in So Philly growing up.

I'm in Gumi, a "little" town outside of Daegu. I say little because by Korean standards it is small, but the population and size is about equal to Pittsburgh!

I have not tried dongdongju but I have tried makgeolli, which is apparently similar. Makgeolli's not bad, but I prefer our brews to anything! Soju is smooth and CHEAP and goes well with some delicious Korean beef : )

Hope you enjoy (maybe you have already come and left though!) your trip to Korea!

 

[keemokitty]

Hello Kitty, (OK It's been done...)

Brings back bad memories of Beef Bulgogi, A-Town, Juicy Girls, OB and Soju. (Not necessarily in that order...)
I spent a year at Kunsan AB.

bad memories? oh no! kusan? nice! you were about the same latitude as we are in Korea! we are in gumi, outside of daegu. things are going well though : )

 

[keemokitty]

welcome, enjoy your stay. Are you able to get much in the way of specialty grains over there?

Thanks! Yeah we're ordering online from goodbeer.co.kr - a Korean site. Takes a day to ship anything from them! Pretty great company so far. We have all our supplies and grains from them. We just did our first all-grain IPA!! :-D I'm excited to see how it turns out!

 

[keemokitty]

I might sound crazy, but I miss those 64 oz. plastic growlers of OB for freakin $2!

This site is great. I learn something new every time I check it out. Are you getting your malt and grains by mail or did you find a homebrew supply shop in Seoul?

we're using goodbeer.co.kr - workin well so far : )

 

[keemokitty]

Welcome to HBT,
I lived in Korea for over a year, Uijeongbu, I did manage to find Hite dark at one place. and those Beef and Leaf places are just freaking amazing. I wish there was one here.

I take it that you do a bunch of online ordering ?

-Jason

Dongdongju is the devil

Oh nice! You were quite North of where we are now, did you enjoy it? I agree - Korean BBQ is AMAZING!!

Yup, all online. If we need anything special we can't get from a Korean site, I am sure we can check in Seoul or just order from another country's site. We've done 1 batch just pre-hopped malt extract while we waited for our additional supplies to arrive and now we've just finished an all-grain IPA : )

 

[Photomask]

bad memories? oh no! kusan? nice! you were about the same latitude as we are in Korea! we are in gumi, outside of daegu. things are going well though : )

There was a dog ranch just off the backside of the base. I biked laps around the perimeter road every day for exercise and the smell would just about knock you over if the wind was blowing the wrong direction. One day they neglected to put the tarps up around the area where they killed the dogs just prior to slaughter. I was unfortunate enough to be on a ride at that particular time. What they would do to those animals to get the skin loosened and the adrenalin level elevated was the stuff that nightmares are made of and made Freddy Krugar look like a well-mannered wuss. Describing the images that are forever burned into my brain would probably get me kicked off the internet, let alone this site. It was bad. That was over 15 years ago.

Plus the whole country smelled like dead fish. That smell stayed with you until you got back to the states and washed everything you owned.

As far as Hangul goes, I know just enough to get me in trouble.