Hello all!
I've just gotten serious about making beer at home after the girl bought a wine kit. So far only Festa Brew kits have been tried, but I am comitted to better tasting beverages than what I used to drink.
Ahoy!
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Jimmy
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Welcome, you've come to the right place.OneEyedJack wrote:Hello all!
I've just gotten serious about making beer at home after the girl bought a wine kit. So far only Festa Brew kits have been tried, but I am comitted to better tasting beverages than what I used to drink.
Hoptoberfest is coming up soon and would be a good spot for you to try some of the brews made by club members
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Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month, discussion can be found under the events forum.
And last but not least, check out the "Group Buy" section for great deals on equipment and supplies.
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Hello Jack. 
There's nothing wrong with FestaBrews, except that somebody else did all the interesting stuff with it
But even with a Festabrew, you can play a bit.
There's nothing wrong with FestaBrews, except that somebody else did all the interesting stuff with it
But even with a Festabrew, you can play a bit.Currently on tap: Nothing!
In keg: Still nothing.
In Primary: Doggone American Rye Pale Ale
In keg: Still nothing.
In Primary: Doggone American Rye Pale Ale
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Baby steps everyone!
My knowledge about beer now compared to 4 months ago makes me feel that I didn't know what beer WAS. I couldn't even give the simple description that beer is the conflicting flavours of the bitterness of hops to balance out the sweetness of the malts. I did not know where beer came from (beer fairy?). I expect to do much more soon enough.
Thank you for the welcomes!
My knowledge about beer now compared to 4 months ago makes me feel that I didn't know what beer WAS. I couldn't even give the simple description that beer is the conflicting flavours of the bitterness of hops to balance out the sweetness of the malts. I did not know where beer came from (beer fairy?). I expect to do much more soon enough.
Thank you for the welcomes!
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And please do come by the Hoptoberfest and meet us all!
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Welcome, Jack. Festa makes a hell of a brew avaliable for us to use to make great beer. I sometimes think that if I had access to Festa Brew
when I first started, I wouldn't have bothered to go AG.
But I've been wrong once before
when I first started, I wouldn't have bothered to go AG.
But I've been wrong once before
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yeah, I'm not sure I'd go that far. I started with festa, but it won't be how I end... 
At Alexander Keith's we follow the recipes first developed by the great brewmaster to the absolute letter. 
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X your end maybe getting run over by a subaru 
Jack
Jack"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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