tom9d
Well-Known Member
Greetings, folks. I'm Tom from New York. Nice to meet y'all.
My brother got me a Mr. Beer kit years ago for Christmas. I used it, bought a second Mr. Beer keg (for some reason), made quite a few batches with 'em, including some that my friends and I thought were pretty damn good, all things considered.
I moved a couple of years ago and stopped brewing. Then recently, I got the urge to start again. Always knew there was more out there than Mr. Beer. So I dusted off those old kegs one more time just to reacquaint myself with the process and went and ordered a real set-up.*
I've been doing lots of research on brewing the past couple of weeks and my searches kept taking me here, so I figured I might as well sign up. And here I am.
*It's rather sparse at the moment. Just a pair of 6.5 gallon pails at the moment - one for a primary and one for bottling. Along with all the necessary hosing and little things. Popular opinion around here, if I'm not mistaken, seems to be that you might as well not use a secondary unless you're doing a fruit beer or something like that, because a primary will get the job done just fine. Yes? No? So I figure I'll get some easier brews out of the way first and invest in a secondary a few months down the road.
My brother got me a Mr. Beer kit years ago for Christmas. I used it, bought a second Mr. Beer keg (for some reason), made quite a few batches with 'em, including some that my friends and I thought were pretty damn good, all things considered.
I moved a couple of years ago and stopped brewing. Then recently, I got the urge to start again. Always knew there was more out there than Mr. Beer. So I dusted off those old kegs one more time just to reacquaint myself with the process and went and ordered a real set-up.*
I've been doing lots of research on brewing the past couple of weeks and my searches kept taking me here, so I figured I might as well sign up. And here I am.
*It's rather sparse at the moment. Just a pair of 6.5 gallon pails at the moment - one for a primary and one for bottling. Along with all the necessary hosing and little things. Popular opinion around here, if I'm not mistaken, seems to be that you might as well not use a secondary unless you're doing a fruit beer or something like that, because a primary will get the job done just fine. Yes? No? So I figure I'll get some easier brews out of the way first and invest in a secondary a few months down the road.