Chucking out the tin opener......

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booldawg

Post by booldawg » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:39 pm

Whats going to be your first brew?

ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:11 pm

Piscator wrote:Excellent 8)

Now prepare to spend hours agonising over your first recipe :lol:
That is exactly what i'm doing! :)

Stringy Bob

Post by Stringy Bob » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:45 pm

booldawg wrote:Whats going to be your first brew?
A nice simple bitter - probably along the line of Horden Hillbillys recipe. Not going to think about water treatments (other than a camden tablet) or PH's yet until ive got a few brews under my belt

mysterio

Post by mysterio » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:54 pm

Congrats and welcome to the dark side :twisted:

Toast

Post by Toast » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:03 pm

As someone who is only five brews in, I'm completely hooked. I wonder how to improve I read stuff, listen to stuff and ask questions here of the excellent folk on JBK. My wife says I'm obsessed and that she has been indulging me - she probably doesn't know the half of it!
Just to get all psychological on you, when I'm brewing I enter the state known as 'flow' Google Csíkszentmihályi' or just look at this flow where time does not seem to matter, where the work is a challenge but you do it to get to the next thing. As someone who has studied this phenomenon, The last place I expected to find it was 'nerdy' home brewing.

Calum

Post by Calum » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:16 pm

Well done. =D>

Many have gone and put together a 5 gallon brewery only to find out that what they wanted was a 10 gallon (perhaps it was just me :roll: ). To go for the 10g straight away is a very good move. :D

Toast

Post by Toast » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:27 pm

Sorry. Url linking awry; wikipedia link are not JBK friendly

adm

Post by adm » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:17 am

Toast wrote:My wife says I'm obsessed and that she has been indulging me - she probably doesn't know the half of it!
That sounds familiar!

I've been in the Phillipines all week (still here) and am having withdrawal symptoms. It's worrying that I want to get home to see my wife, kids, dog and beers - ad not neccesarily in that order!

I'm sitting in a Manila hotel room right now - waiting for my flight and planning a recipe to get a brew on on Sunday..... (and I've got four brews at various stages of fermenting/conditioning already)

I think I'm going to do an IPA....

adm

Post by adm » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:18 am

Toast wrote:Google Csíkszentmihályi'
That's easy for you to say.....

frutbunn

Re: Chucking out the tin opener......

Post by frutbunn » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:39 pm

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