Greetings,
This is my first post on the forum after much lurking. I thought I would share my experience with my first brew and my thoughts on beer in general after said brew. I purchased a basic starter kit in January with an American Wheat Beer Extract kit. I brewed the AWB and really enjoyed the process of brewing and learning more about beer. I added 1 lb. of honey at flame out, but otherwise followed the recipe to the letter. I initially thought 5 gallons of beer would be too much for me to consume on my own (as my wife doesn’t particularly share my taste in beer). I quickly found that this beer was so good that I had been through half of my batch in a very short time. I had to force myself to find other beer to drink to make this batch last. In the past two weeks, I’ve started trying as many different styles as I possibly can. I have also order my next two batches to brew: an amber ale extract with a few tweaks of my own to experiment, and another batch of the AWB because I just love that recipe. After trying a respectable number of other beers in recent weeks, I still find myself coming back to this AWB. I think my plan from now on will be to just order a batch of that beer every time I place on order. After I brew the amber and the second batch of AWB, I plan to try the Grateful Dead Guy extract kit group. As far as commercial beers available in my area, I think Rogue Dead Guy is my personal favorite. Anyway, I just thought I would share my first brewing experience and general thoughts on beer with other beer lovers. Cheers.
