While I'm still in the process of gathering equipment...I thought it best to let my equipment collection evolve.....so....no actual brewing equipment yet....
but... I did get a couple of 6 gallon better bottles and other implements...and thought it best to at least put together a quick black cherry cyser...
nothing fancy...just 4 gallons of Mott's apple juice...a gallon of Knudsen black cherry juice...and 2 lbs of generic honey...a week ago.
Primary is doing well....will probably rack it to secondary in another week to 10 days. By then I will add a new 5 gallon keg to my collection which should fit nicely in my kegerator. Looks like I can put at least 2 of them in it...maybe 3. Depending on how many I can put inside, I'll probably upgrade at least to a double tower...maybe a triple....If three 5 gallon kegs don't fit, I'll see about two 5 gallon kegs and one 3 gallon keg (probably for my high gravity brews)
I used to do a lot of competitive brewing back in the day. I took a first place at the Texas Bluebonnet competition back in th mid-90's with a smoked porter....and several brewer of the year awards with my old club, the Knights of the Brown Bottle. But I'm not really interested in competition anymore. I'm a major hop-head and will concentrate on IPA's, Imperial IPA's, Dry Stouts, and Imperial Stouts....and hopefully an occasional Barleywine.
Cheers !
