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Hello,
My name is Marco and I started brewing this past summer. I am a cook/chef by trade, and I consider brewing to be an advancement of my culinary skills. So far I've only done extracts and partial mashes. I brew about once a month. I have a couple goals with regards to brewing. One is to start all grain brewing, and the other is to study and take the BJCP exam in 2009. I live in northern Colorado, and I'm a member of a really great homebrew club called the Liquid Poet's Society. I feel very lucky to live and brew in Colorado !
Cheers !!!
Marco Olivo
Berthoud, Colorado
Hello,
My name is Dan I'm a 30 year old former Marine turned pharmacist from Montana. (Although pharmacy is just a part time gig untill I can save up enough equity to start my own microbrewery 
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I have been brewing sporadically for the past few years. Still an extract brewer for now but working on getting the right all grain set up for me. I have just recently settled into a new house, job ect after graduating so now that I can pay my bills and raise my family (2 Girls 4 and 1) I can start focusing on my true passion... Beer.
My favorite style depends on the season (see post about favotite beer on The Pub)
Anyway lot a great info on this site thanks to all for your posts. I look forward to contributing and learning in the future.
Prost!
You might be a homebrewer if:
You spend more time thinking about beer than drinking beer. 
Hello all.
-I've been brewing just over a month
-My favorite beer styles are oatmeal stout and imperial stouts and ipas
-I'm from Rochester, New York!
Happy to be aboard!
hey everyone
I just started brewing about a month ago, bottled #2 last night.
can't really pick a favorite (but its gotta have some hops) but I really like seasonal beers in their season: oktobers, celebration ales & barley wines, bocks, etc.
I live in buffalo, ny
cheers
My name is Quinn Martin. I live in St. Louyis, MO. I lived up in the pacific northwest in the 90's and that's where I discovered craft brews. Specicifcally McMennimins, Rogue, McTarnahans, Pyramid, and FullSail. My favorite beers are for sure porters and stouts. Anyone ever had a terminator stout or a black rabbit porter from McMennimins? If you're ever in the portland salem area in Oregon I highly recommend a stop at one of the McMennimins brewpubs. They have a website. Best beer I've ever had. I've been brewing for like 6 months. Done 2 porters, a few IPA's, a brown ale, and 2 stouts. They have all been really good. It's fun and I like sharing with friends and co-workers. They all really get a pretty big kick out of it. Look forward to chatting etc.
I live in syracuse new york
fav brew porters
3 years brewing two years ag
1. How long have you been brewing?
2. What is your favorite beer style?
3. Where are you from?
Howdy!
1) I just bottled my first batch of cider this morning and my next project is an IPA (extract kit). So I guess, I've technically never brewed I have, however, made tanks and tanks of wine.
2) I am obsessed with IPAs - the hoppier, the better. My current not from scratch favorites are Hop Ottin from Anderson Valley Brewing Co and Laguinitas IPA
3) I was born and raised in CA but moved to WI in June. It's kinda cold here.
I'm looking forward to chatting with all of you.
Hi, I'm Randy, I'm 38, I started homebrewing in 2002, quit in 2004 and now getting back into it. I was about 50/50 beer and mead. The mead always turned out better than the beer but I only made it because people asked for it. I mainly did extracts but I'm looking into starting all-grain.
I like mild beers: mild taste and mild in alcohol. The heavier and hoppier beers are not for me. I don't like to get drunk but a mild buzz is always nice. Commercially my favorite beer is Amberbock.
I live in Ohio (8 degrees this morning), just north of Dayton. I buy most of my equipment at Belmont Party Supply. If anyone knows of another local place, let me know. More info is better. Online, I order from Midwest and Alternative Beverage. I used to order from St Pats but they've stopped selling ingredients.
Right now I've got 5 gallons of Cyser in the primary, ready to rack to secondary. A 1 gallon batch of simple cyser (different recipe) aging. 1 gallon of mild brown ale (my own recipe) ready to be bottled and 1 gallon of ginger beer soda carbonating. In the basement are 300-400 bottles on beer and mead from 5 years ago. Much of it just tasted bad originally but now it's mellowed and some of it is very tasty (and some of it still tastes like crap).
Next on the stove is 1 gallon of wheat beer. I like experimenting so I do the 1 gallon batches. If I don't like something I can just throw it away without feeling I lost too much. Once I find something I like I'll make a 5 gallon batch.
10 years ago I was in the Netherlands and had a bottle of Heineken Oud Bruin and that was the beer that started me drinking beer. Bad news is that I can't find it here, and can't find a recipe. So my goal is to find something that tastes like HOB...but that memory is 10 years old and probably faulty.
My worst homebrew story was my very first batch of beer. It was supposed to be a simple yellow ale. It got a lactic acid infection and smelled bad. It still tasted fine though.
randy
Hey all -
I'm in Seattle (recent transplant from NYC) and have been brewing since 2005 --- with a one-year hiatus in there somewhere. Started on kits and never got satisfactory results; quickly moved through the methods to all-grain. Now I do both extract/steeping and all-grain, depending on the recipe and the amount of time I have.
Hard to say what my favorite style is -- I love the more "out there" stuff a lot, so I gravitate towards Belgian styles and some of the extreme American beers; on the other hand, those can smack the palate around (not to mention the high alc% they tend to have), so I have plenty of room in my beer life for the more classic/straightforward ales and lagers
Anyone else in the Seattle area? Been using Bob's Homebrew Supply for much of my stuff since it is the closest to me, but always looking for rec's.
Commercial beers in my fridge that I'm most excited about at the moment: Alaskan Smoked Porter 2008; New Belgium La Folie; and Pike Entire Barrel Aged Stout, along with more obvious stuff (e.g. Redhook ESB and so on).
Cheers everyone!
Hi all,
My wife and I just began brewing on the 28th with a ginger beer. Brewing beer takes us back to when we were lab partners in college and we are excited to see how our first work turns out.
I am a big fan of hoppy, high gravity beers like IPA and pale ale. I also can't turn down a good stout like Guiness. My wife enjoys a good stout as well (Left Hand Milk Stout) as well as nut browns and Irish reds.
My wife and I met in Johnson City, TN where we were attending college and where she hails from. I have lived there most of my life as well as a few other states. We currently live in Knoxville with our son and 2 dogs.