I want to thank all of you for your efforts over the years to further the art of home brewing. I’m posting this in “beginners” because I haven’t posted here more than a handful of times. I’m what you’d call a professional lurker. It’s been, at least, a decade since I’ve started brewing and reading your dialogue here - and your advice has been invaluable.
I’ve listened to your words about mashing temps, water ph, and recipe creation.
I’ve followed your best practices on bottling and kegging. I’ve seen a million threads about oxidation and autolysis. I have kept brewing.
I’ve made strides since my first all grain brew. I’ve kept brewing.
I’ve been able to control how my beer feels and tastes due to your tutelage.
You have taught me how to bottle and keg. I am now force carbing in kegs - you taught me how to do it.
You have taught me the best procedures for each of these methods.
You’ve taught me how to build a recipe and how to bring malt, hop, and yeast flavors out of beer.
By simply lurking I have become a pretty proficient brewer.
I mash in a cooler that you taught me to build. I ferment in a bucket with a blowoff tube (thanks 1056) that you taught me to build.
5 years ago I planted two Columbus rhismomes with the hope that I could someday brew a beer with them.
My latest beer is a self made recipe brewed with my favorite yeast - 1056 (washed), hopped with wet hops that I’ve grown, and kegged with burst carbonation that you’ve given me the knowledge to do. By simply lurking I have become a pretty proficient brewer.
I want to thank every one of you that have contributed to every forum here. I have read every word. I have learned from all of the knowledge that you have posted.
Thanks, everyone.
Brett
I’ve listened to your words about mashing temps, water ph, and recipe creation.
I’ve followed your best practices on bottling and kegging. I’ve seen a million threads about oxidation and autolysis. I have kept brewing.
I’ve made strides since my first all grain brew. I’ve kept brewing.
I’ve been able to control how my beer feels and tastes due to your tutelage.
You have taught me how to bottle and keg. I am now force carbing in kegs - you taught me how to do it.
You have taught me the best procedures for each of these methods.
You’ve taught me how to build a recipe and how to bring malt, hop, and yeast flavors out of beer.
By simply lurking I have become a pretty proficient brewer.
I mash in a cooler that you taught me to build. I ferment in a bucket with a blowoff tube (thanks 1056) that you taught me to build.
5 years ago I planted two Columbus rhismomes with the hope that I could someday brew a beer with them.
My latest beer is a self made recipe brewed with my favorite yeast - 1056 (washed), hopped with wet hops that I’ve grown, and kegged with burst carbonation that you’ve given me the knowledge to do. By simply lurking I have become a pretty proficient brewer.
I want to thank every one of you that have contributed to every forum here. I have read every word. I have learned from all of the knowledge that you have posted.
Thanks, everyone.
Brett