AnotherFinch
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Hey there! I doubt anyone here will remember me, but I definitely remember this place.
I joined back in 2008 and started my home brewing journey on this forum. I ended up dragging a couple of my roommates into the hobby, and before long moved on from making basic wines to some kit beer, and eventually on to our own recipes (including a decent double-nut brown ale and kolsch). I moved halfway across the country (and later back) and was making beer all along the way. Sometime shortly after I joined I started posting less and less, and before too long I got lazy, couldn't find the time or space to brew anymore, and ended up just putting it on hold. It doesn't help that I loaned out most of my brewing equipment to friends, was sharing equipment with roommates who I ended up parting ways with, etc etc.
I was drinking a cider recently and had a flashback to the time I first threw together a batch of Edwort's Apfelwein. Being one of my first 5-gallon brews, I got as far brewing it but never thought about racking or bottling and it somehow ended up in a truck bed outside a movie theatre (shaken up yeast cake clouding it up and everything) while a bunch of my friends and I dipped solo cups into the bucket just trying to keep it down. Despite all of the awesome recipes that came after that, I think I remember my extra-dry high-proof applewein the most (same goes for my friends that drank anything I'd made since).
Well, I got the itch again recently I decided to run out and grab the most basic gear I could: two 6.5 gallon buckets, a siphon, some tubing, yeast, paddle, airlock, 2lbs of dextrose, san-star, and 5.5 gallons of the cheapest organic apple juice Lidl had to offer.
So here I am... back at the beginning, starting all over again. I searched the forum for any any old usernames I would've used 13+ years ago (forgot password was useless, this account is older than my email address) and by some miracle, I remembered the password I used for most of my accounts back then.
It's good to be back! Even if I'm back over a decade later exactly where I was when I started: brewing a batch of the most basic/cheap apfelwein you can make. I can't wait to get back into making beer and see what everyone's been up to over the past decade.
I joined back in 2008 and started my home brewing journey on this forum. I ended up dragging a couple of my roommates into the hobby, and before long moved on from making basic wines to some kit beer, and eventually on to our own recipes (including a decent double-nut brown ale and kolsch). I moved halfway across the country (and later back) and was making beer all along the way. Sometime shortly after I joined I started posting less and less, and before too long I got lazy, couldn't find the time or space to brew anymore, and ended up just putting it on hold. It doesn't help that I loaned out most of my brewing equipment to friends, was sharing equipment with roommates who I ended up parting ways with, etc etc.
I was drinking a cider recently and had a flashback to the time I first threw together a batch of Edwort's Apfelwein. Being one of my first 5-gallon brews, I got as far brewing it but never thought about racking or bottling and it somehow ended up in a truck bed outside a movie theatre (shaken up yeast cake clouding it up and everything) while a bunch of my friends and I dipped solo cups into the bucket just trying to keep it down. Despite all of the awesome recipes that came after that, I think I remember my extra-dry high-proof applewein the most (same goes for my friends that drank anything I'd made since).
Well, I got the itch again recently I decided to run out and grab the most basic gear I could: two 6.5 gallon buckets, a siphon, some tubing, yeast, paddle, airlock, 2lbs of dextrose, san-star, and 5.5 gallons of the cheapest organic apple juice Lidl had to offer.
So here I am... back at the beginning, starting all over again. I searched the forum for any any old usernames I would've used 13+ years ago (forgot password was useless, this account is older than my email address) and by some miracle, I remembered the password I used for most of my accounts back then.
It's good to be back! Even if I'm back over a decade later exactly where I was when I started: brewing a batch of the most basic/cheap apfelwein you can make. I can't wait to get back into making beer and see what everyone's been up to over the past decade.
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