Pre-kids I would be out every weekend enjoying the great outdoors and to my wife's dismay that meant snowshoeing or skiing part of the year. Now that we have my son I needed to find a hobby that was less intense and kept me occupied at home. So for Christmas of 2016 my wife bought me a home-brew kit.
I started strong for a few months then got distracted; but now I have been back at it full force for 4 months now. I can do all grain brewing with a homemade setup but my home brew kit was made for extract so that ends up being 80% of the beer I make.
Being from Portsmouth, New Hampshire puts me smack middle in NE IPA country so unless I brew a different sort of IPA I generally go with the plethora of microbrews around home.
I really enjoy a good saison, farmhouse ale or lambic so those are the styles that I want to specialize in. I also love a good berlinerweiss in the summer but that will be a seasonal fling. At some point my goal is to harvest some yeast and keep it growing for my own use but I'll take it one step at a time.
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I started strong for a few months then got distracted; but now I have been back at it full force for 4 months now. I can do all grain brewing with a homemade setup but my home brew kit was made for extract so that ends up being 80% of the beer I make.
Being from Portsmouth, New Hampshire puts me smack middle in NE IPA country so unless I brew a different sort of IPA I generally go with the plethora of microbrews around home.
I really enjoy a good saison, farmhouse ale or lambic so those are the styles that I want to specialize in. I also love a good berlinerweiss in the summer but that will be a seasonal fling. At some point my goal is to harvest some yeast and keep it growing for my own use but I'll take it one step at a time.
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