Updates coming soon

I am going to upload photos soon, I've learned two things so far since starting my blog and starting to home brew. First blogging is harder than I thought. Secondly brewing is harder than I thought as well. My bathtub experiment turned out well, it looks like beer with a yeast trub at the bottom. The STL Brown is also going well, Kyle is responsible for that so we'll see. My IPA and Pale IPA both turned out, posts incoming.

First brew and thoughts

This will be infinitely less detailed then most of my posts but my first brewday merited a look back post. It's been 3 months since my first brew day. Derek and I brewed a robust porter kit from brewer's best. He brought his brewing stuff over. We brewed the kit in a hurry.

Lesson #1: Do not hurry.

The beer was fine in the end, a bit bland, but it was a kit. It produced a drinkable beer. We added some bourbon soaked chips to it. The heavy toast American chips gave it a bit of a smokey wood flavor; something that in time we'll explore more I am sure.

The fact that it turned out alright despite my inability to prepare properly is amazing at this point. I'll monitor it in the future but right now I have 2 cases of slightly oaked porter. Not bad.

Introduction

As the title of my blog suggests I brew in a small place. I created this blog as a dual purpose diary: first it’s a way for me to keep track of what I’ve done, my thoughts and what I’ve learned; second to create a blog that might be helpful in the future to other people just starting out in the brew game.  In my future posts I will be posting my setup, processes, recipes, reviews of beers I’ve brewed, and general info on my experiences. Thanks for reading my blog, please leave comments, God bless.