Florida Seeking Navarre FL Home Brewers

[deks77]

nice I didnt even think about using that pos.. I dont even use it cause i burn myself on it.. yeah im supposed to be in the low 30's tonight.. why cant i lager lol

 

[tld6008]

I use a 150w bulb, seems to do the job. I keep a dark T shirt on the carboy for a shade

 

[royal1911]

Anyone still around? I took a break from brewing and now I’m back.

 

[tld6008]

I am

 

[royal1911]

Cool man. I’m putting my new brew station together this weekend. Hopefully I’ll be brewing again by next weekend.

 

[suprchunk]

I'm here. Sporadically. Working in PC during the week though. Have a system in each house too.

 

[hoppheadIPA]

Is anyone still on this thread? I'm in gulf breeze and just getting back into brewing

 

[T Murph]

I'm here. Sporadically. Working in PC during the week though. Have a system in each house too.

I'm excited to see home brewers are reaching out to each other in the Panhandle. I live in PCB and Birmingham. I have basically given up on finding like minded home brewers here in PCB. I've searched for clubs to no avail and talked to the only homebrew supply store, which is an Ace Hardware on the beach, but nothing. In Birmingham AlaBrew, the number one LHBS host regular meetings for the Birmingham Brew masters home brew club. I've been brewing 30 years and due to the apparent lack of interest in PCB I keep my brewery in Birmingham. I do all my brewing there and bring a keg down as needed. Since I work in S. Walton and spend most of my time at the beach, it's very inconvenient for my brewery to be so far away. I am interested in meeting other brewers in the area. I do a lot of traveling so a trip a few miles west would not be a problem. Maybe a get together could scheduled somewhere that we could meet up and maybe form a club. If interested, please respond.

 

[tld6008]

There is a brewing club in Pcola, called Emerald Coast brewers or something like that. Look up Garys Home Brew supply
He is on the west side and would know any particulars I live between Gulf Breeze and Navarre, been brewing for years but not much of a club person. I keep 3 kegs in my cooler and probably only brew 4-5 time a year now all IPA types. Usually will bottle 1 stout a year.

 

[T Murph]

There is a brewing club in Pcola, called Emerald Coast brewers or something like that. Look up Garys Home Brew supply
He is on the west side and would know any particulars I live between Gulf Breeze and Navarre, been brewing for years but not much of a club person. I keep 3 kegs in my cooler and probably only brew 4-5 time a year now all IPA types. Usually will bottle 1 stout a year.

Yeah I gotta get over to Pcola again soon. Judged a competition there back in 97 but I don't get much info about them as I'm less involved as of late. My plan is to get out more and meet more brewers. I would especially like to meet up with like minded folks closer by.

 

[hoppheadIPA]

There is a brewing club in Pcola, called Emerald Coast brewers or something like that. Look up Garys Home Brew supply
He is on the west side and would know any particulars I live between Gulf Breeze and Navarre, been brewing for years but not much of a club person. I keep 3 kegs in my cooler and probably only brew 4-5 time a year now all IPA types. Usually will bottle 1 stout a year.

Sounds like you're in Midway. We could be neighbors! Anyways, I just built a 4 tap keezer and my neighbor has 3. We can't brew enough to keep them full....

 

[tld6008]

Maybe you bought that mash tun and the buckets from me?

 

[hoppheadIPA]

Maybe you bought that mash tun and the buckets from me?

No, my neighbor did

 

[suprchunk]

I had to move gents. Too little action in the panhandle, brewing wise. Had to move up north, now I can't avoid competitions and brewing.

I had solicitations for maybe 2-3 homebrew comps down there, a year, for judging. Since moving up here, I get one a week, and I'm pretty much booked up for judging comps. Living down there I thought homebrewing was on the way out, just seems that area is too dead for homebrewers. Especially up where I was living.

But there is no end in opinions over there. And just like as_sholes...

Good luck my fellow prison inmates, it was a long sentence, and I ain't going back!

 

[T Murph]

@suprchunk I here ya. I used to live in panhandle full time and it was a craft beer desert until the last few years. No decent homebrew supply stores. I still have a house there but I too moved north where craft beer and homebrewing thrives. I must admit S. Walton has a couple of good brew pubs now and there is also Oyster City Brewing Co in Apalachicola. But I now enjoy many good brew pubs in N. Alabama and a very good homebrew store.