As a new brewer (beer so far), I decided to start a blog which chronicled my early days (perhaps longer) of brewing. My hopes are to identify some of the things that I initially had questions about, and answers I found. In other words, I want to make it easier for some others who may be starting out in brewing.
A little history...
A few years ago, my wife gave me a brew bag kit. It came with a double-lined bag, all the necessary materials and instructions. I would pour in the stuff from the can, add hot and cold water, slosh it around, add the yeast, slosh some more and wait three weeks. I could then enjoy a beer straight out of the bag, which hung conveniently on my pot rack (that's kitchen pots... don't get any ideas - those days are waaaaay behind me).
Now, I enjoyed that beer bag thing, and obtained two refills for it. The instructions said you could use it for up to three batches. And I did. It started to get "stained" and so I got rid of it, opting to buy my beer like most Americans do - at Wally World in the booze aisle. But I was sooooo sick of American beers, and craved something different. So I would try a few others... I liked big-name favorites like Killians and Becks, but I still wasn't happy - outside of that fact that it was BEER!!!
So, one day a couple of years later I saw a beer kit with a 2-gallon plastic fermenting tank that had a spigot and a way to clean and refill it, making the kit reusable on an endless basis. That was pretty nice, and I still had the brewer's bug. So, I put it on my Christmas list for 2006, and my brother-in-law got me a Mr. Beer kit, complete with the brew keg, a can of Pale Ale malt, a bag of dextrose (corn sugar), a package of yeast and a few accessories. Schweet, I thought, I can make my own beer again.
I did have to wait a week to brew my first batch, though. With holidays and my parent's 50th anniversay party out of the way, I began. My next post details that little adventure. :)
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