Hello from northern Virginia

Hello. I'm finally setting up an account here. The firearms board I frequent has a brewing section but it is very small with low traffic and a lot of people on there post here too. I also wind up coming here when I google search homebrew related things.

I have been brewing for almost 2 years, but mostly meads. I recently started beer under much pressure from beer brewing friends.

I just bottled my first brew, a hazelnut brown ale 5 gallon batch. I also did three 1 gallon batches to kind of cut my teeth on. White House honey ale, a Bavarian Wheat and a barley wine. I should be bottling those next week.

I would love to keg, but the biggest reason I have not been brewing beer is the space in my house is limited and there is no place for a keezer, or much brewing equipment without annoying my wife.

So for big batches I am brewing at my friends house, and everything will be bottled. When I move to a bigger house, kegs are on my short list.

-Mike

There are a number of NOVA brewers here.

Sheldon said:

There are a number of NOVA brewers here.

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I've been attending HOWL(Homebrewers Of Western Louden) meetings because I have a couple of friends in that group that invited me. Is there a group of northern VA(Fairfax or PW) homebrewers that get together regularly?

I know there's a homebrew club called GRIST in Fairfax/McLean that appears to meet monthly. I actually just moved out of Centreville to Fairfax about a year ago.

Welcome to the group, from CO.

Welcome!