beekeeperman
Well-Known Member
Just ordered a brewing kit yesterday , 2 buckets, a plastic carboy and the other basic necessities to get started including a irish red ale kit for the 1st batch.
This is a new hobby been wanting to get started for awhile now since i took up beekeeping last spring and have honey to make mead with too.
Bought a mead brewing book but will need a good beer brewing book too.
Anyhow, we live the simple kinda self sufficient life back in the Maine woods a bit compared to the masses. Grow and put up a lot of veges, fruit and firewood for heating, lumber for building etc.
and getting sick of beer prices and bottle returns etc so time has come to get my feet wet into homebrewing .
Did a tour of duty in W.Germany back in the 70s and got spoiled big time on tasty german beer. Never could drink that watery stuff again that big brewers
here make and the micro brews are $16. a twelve pack at least
anymore. Arrgh !
Hope not to be too big a pain here with questions but am a little wet behind the ears .
This is a new hobby been wanting to get started for awhile now since i took up beekeeping last spring and have honey to make mead with too.
Bought a mead brewing book but will need a good beer brewing book too.
Anyhow, we live the simple kinda self sufficient life back in the Maine woods a bit compared to the masses. Grow and put up a lot of veges, fruit and firewood for heating, lumber for building etc.
and getting sick of beer prices and bottle returns etc so time has come to get my feet wet into homebrewing .
Did a tour of duty in W.Germany back in the 70s and got spoiled big time on tasty german beer. Never could drink that watery stuff again that big brewers
here make and the micro brews are $16. a twelve pack at least
anymore. Arrgh !
Hope not to be too big a pain here with questions but am a little wet behind the ears .