New guy from Indiana

[Knute Zinc]

Hello to all.

Move your chairs around so the new guy can get a place at the bar!!!

A little about myself, my name is Mike and I am from Seymour, Indiana. I started brewing 15 years ago. I hit it real hard for 5 years and have not brewed since. Now I am thinking about getting back into the hobby. I have been brewing biodiesel all summer with great success and want to switch to brewing beer in the winter. (homebrew biodiesel is a summer fuel, more or less)

At 48, I am the third generation in the family restaurant business our boys, 15 and 17, are the fourth. When I get brewing again I want to work with them and show them what good beer is all about. I know, I know, they are young but what we share inside our own home is our own business!!! Still with my first wife, Katie, who shares working in the family business. (she doesn't like beer at all )

Other hobbies include barbecuing, guitar, biodiesel brewing...and lots of other things I have dabbled in..

Well, I guess I'll be seein' ya around....

Mike...

 

[RichBrewer]

Welcome to the forum and welcome back to home brewing.

Wow! don't get the 2 types of brewing mixed up. I can't imagine that a pint of biodiesel will taste all that good...

 

[homebrewer_99]

Welcome back...

 

[Knute Zinc]

Welcome to the forum and welcome back to home brewing.

Wow! don't get the 2 types of brewing mixed up. I can't imagine that a pint of biodiesel will taste all that good...

It does to my "85 Mercedes !!!

Thanks,
Mike...

 

[StoutMeister]

wlecome back brother...it is good to see new people joing the fourms...so tell me friend....what was your last brew???

 

[Knute Zinc]

wlecome back brother...it is good to see new people joing the fourms...so tell me friend....what was your last brew???

So long ago...wait it was an IPA... Yea I remember now, man was it good. I brewed so many different batches, probably 40 to 50 or more in all. We were drinking them as fast as they were coming in!!!

I was (am) an extract brewer. I was getting interested in all grain when the family life/business got in the way of my hobby. I have been out of brewing for probably 10 years. I am sure techniques have changed since then.

I went from bottling to kegging along the way years ago. I remember I thought I had developed my own idea when started kegging in "borrowed" Pepsi cannisters, then I found that others had been doing it for some time. I think modern homebrewing was probably in its infancy back then. I peaked into some of the threads here and there is language that I have never heard in brewing.

I need to go back to the basics and "start over". I will probably go to the forum and ask some advise on a "quick" beer to get me in the swing of things. I (and my friends) remember hating the wait for my beer to "come in".


Well, it's good to be here. Maybe I' ll donate the fifteen bucks so I can get an avatar under my username!!!
Mike....

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Other hobbies include barbecuing guitar, biodiesel brewing...and lots of other things I have dabbled in..

Why would you BBQ a guitar?!?!?



Welcome back to the fold, your life is going to change again...

 

[Wes]

Welcome Mike!

Actually, I'm new to this board also, but since you're a fellow Hoosier, I thought I should step out and say hi. Plus, I think that's really neat that you make biodiesal! I hope you have fun with your found-again hobby. I have only brewed one batch so far but have found it to be fascinating! Take care, and if I'm ever in Seymour, I might like to trade brews with you

Peace!