Returning homebrewer

[BryanMaloney]

For no particular reason, I have decided to return to homebrewing, even though I now live in an apartment in Kentucky with no basement. I love punishment. I started brewing before some of you may have been born and just drifted away from it. I had found a copy of Dave Miller's Complete Handbook of Homebrewing. At the time, I was lucky enough to rent half a house and my half had access to the basement. That was where I started and I brewed for several years after that, then I drifted away. For no reason, I googled the name of one of my recipes and was astonished to find out that old copies of the Cat's Meow and Gambrinus' Mug were still floating around. That got me thinking and reading. Now I'm formulating and designing to restart this October.

 

[cfrazier77]

Awesome, welcome back

 

[jdauria]

Welcome back...same here...I brewed for awhile in the 90's using extract as my local liquor store had a small homebrew section that got me interested. Then I got away from it as I was too busy coaching youth sports and reffing soccer matches, then once my kids were grown, with plenty of free time on my hands, I decided to jump back in, in 2011. Here I am 14 years, 230 batches later and 180+ homebrew comp medals won and still going strong. Of course if my wife every realized how much money I have spent on the hobby in these last 14 years, I would be a dead man!

Don't know how much space you have in your apartment but the big change in the hobby over the last 10 years or so is the All in One (AIO) electric brewing systems. Grainfather, Anvil Foundry and Brewzilla being the big three moderately priced ones, then you have the higher end all in ones that are sweet, but costly. When I started back up, I went rigth to all grain with the two coolers as hot liquor tank and mash tun and a kettle, then I eventually switched to Brew in a Bag and in 2020 to an Anvil Foundry and love it. When I bought it my intent was to still brew BIAB with propane outside, but to use the Foundry inside when it was too cold here in Mass, or when it was too hot and humid...but once I actually brewed on it, I gave up any thought to brewing with propane again.

 

[ncbrewer]

Welcome back to brewing.

 

[wallyLOZ]

Welcome from Missouri, neighbor!