Hello from St. Louis
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:35 pm
Hi folks,
I suppose next time in the chat room I'll use the handle "codewritinfool" since that pretty well describes me.
I've been brewing for a little over a year but come from a long line of brewers (not that that helps any).
When I mentioned to my almost 80-year-old Dad that I was really interested in brewing he told me that down in the corner of his basement was his old bottle capper and some bottles & caps. Huh? He then told me that he used to brew all of the time. My Mom started telling stories about it and I just couldn't believe it. Here I could have been brewing as a kid and didn't even know it.
He then told me that his father brewed, his father's father brewed, and his great-grandmother brewed. Cool.
The next part is the best. He fumbled around in some old papers and produced my great-great-grandmother's beer recipe, more than 100 years old! (No, it doesn't look that good, really).
The show is fantastic and I look forward to it every week (don't know what I'm going to do this week!). I've met some cool folks on here, like Krotch for example.
I suppose next time in the chat room I'll use the handle "codewritinfool" since that pretty well describes me.
I've been brewing for a little over a year but come from a long line of brewers (not that that helps any).
When I mentioned to my almost 80-year-old Dad that I was really interested in brewing he told me that down in the corner of his basement was his old bottle capper and some bottles & caps. Huh? He then told me that he used to brew all of the time. My Mom started telling stories about it and I just couldn't believe it. Here I could have been brewing as a kid and didn't even know it.
He then told me that his father brewed, his father's father brewed, and his great-grandmother brewed. Cool.
The next part is the best. He fumbled around in some old papers and produced my great-great-grandmother's beer recipe, more than 100 years old! (No, it doesn't look that good, really).
The show is fantastic and I look forward to it every week (don't know what I'm going to do this week!). I've met some cool folks on here, like Krotch for example.