this is a repost- of my post from the "beer radio" section..
with a bit of updating.. and linking. the Avatar is my backyard, during the first brewsession.. now I have a IceCube MASH TUN, and use a friends KEG and CFC. I need manymore NEW PHOTOS!
HELLO AND THANKS for the great site!
"HEY EVERYONE!
I think this might be my first post.. i registered quite a while ago.
I love the mp3s... I haven't been able to listen to the live show.. but i will.
A little 411 about me..
i am 25, have been brewing for 1.5 years, went AG in march, and love it.
So far AG I have made:
two very bitter pale ales (5 gal)
one overly dry stout (5 gal)
one HEFE - for fourth of justly - 10 gals-split with buddy)
one Wit -(5 gal)
one rye wit (5 gal)
one. pils/carapils/saaz ale with wlp007 (5 gal)
one "attemped" alt turned porter because of way way too much choc.malt.
One eng. bitter.. target, challenger, EKG(dry hop) (10 gallons)
one ALL PALE/Centennial.. 10 gal split with another brew buddy
.. I think that's about it.
I used Nottingham's for much of my first year, yeast wise, then a bunch of white labs.. an dnow I make starters with the wyeast, when making 10 gallons especially.
I love brewing sucessive batches, and grabbing yeast from the bottom of the bucket , about 2 cups, and storing it in mason jars or zip top baggies, to either cold pitch if less than 2 weeks goes by, or make a starter up to 6 months-ish. and of course.. reusing the remaining yeast cake in the ferm.bucket. -
I made my pale-centennial.. using yeast/ a starter made by adding 3/4 of my day 2 kreusen (scraped off with a sanitized spoon) and a quart of a med. weakish starter (og)
I have posted about 350 times at the NORTHERN BREWER site. I would consider myself a regular there.. but I really enjoy working to your brewcasts.. KEEP IT UP! I will have to send you a bottle of my rye wit/ with a bit of dried ginger.
There are two breweries/brewpubs here in lincoln, one's more mechinized, another has a big pump and a patch-bay of ins and outs for the kettle and MT.. etc. I personally perfer the smaller brewpub, but I also know the brewer and do homebrewing with him...
thanks..
Brendan McGinn
PS looking forward to the Irish brewer this weekend!"
here are some links to my "brewblog" but it's messed up. not line breaks - so it's hard to read..
http://lincolnblog.com/brendansbrewblog
an account of my 10 gallon HEFE.. wyeast 3068
http://www.lincolnblog.com/node/539
http://www.herflyawaymanner.com/brew/brew.html
is my first AG batch.. I will be making a simple site for my brewing/ and yeast playing.
A bit about my username, from the NB forum.
http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtop ... c&start=45
