starting my Brother AG Brewing first

[Bsquared]

This weekend I'm going to get my brother brewing. I brought up my AG set up from San Diego to Sacramento , so his first experience will be with AG instead of extract brewing.

I think I want to incurage him to skip Extract brewing and just start doing AG's. My brother is a Fart Smeller so I think he will catch on quickly.

Anyone here who started brewing AG, before doing an extract? How was your experience?

 

[zoebisch01]

Well not exactly, but I did one extract and then went straight to AG. All went great! I think especially with guidance one-on-one it would be a breeze for him.

 

[Craig5_12]

Hey, I'm in Sac and our homebrew club is having our annual Celebrewtion (HB competition and chili cookoff) to celebrate the repeal of prohibition this weekend. Check it out: http://www.goldcountrybrewers.org/
That'd be a great way to get your bro into brewing......

 

[Lil' Sparky]

All of my brewing experience has been AG. The guy who got me started had been brewing AG for years. It was easy enough and I really dug it, so that's all I've ever done.

 

[BierMuncher]

I'm not a Fart Smeller but my SWMBO is...not by choice.

My biggest obstacle to jumping into AG was just trying to "envision" the process and put the equipment pieces together in my mind. Once I saw pic's and videos and got questions answered on some great forum I found out there :cross: , I was ready to go.

Since you'll be mentoring him, he won't have that obstacle.

 

[joshpooh]

I think starting your brother off brewing AG is a great idea. Not sure I would reccomend someone starting off AG w/o guidance, but members of the forum have had success even starting AG alone. With your guidance he is sure to do well. I"m semi new to AG myself, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but I reccomend making sure he understands why you do every step of the process and not just what to do. For example explain that mashing gets the sugars out of the grain, boiling clarifies and steralizes etc. Of course he may have read enough to know most of the basics, but it doesn't hurt to explain why you are doing something instead of just doing it. Maybe even make him do everything and just supervise. You're lucky, I would love to have a friend or family member interested enough in brewing that I could teach them what I know. I think it would be fun. Well good luck to you and your brother both.

 

[Bsquared]

I think he is going to like it, the really good thing was in December I got my Girlfriend in to it! Yep she's a keeper.

good to know you guys where able to side step Extract brewing, I mean I has a lot of fun extract brewing but I would have liked started Ag'n sooner than I did.