G'day all, just introducing myself as I have just joined up to the forum. Have been lurking a while and have visited Oliver and Geoff's main site several times to have a laugh at their beer reviews.
I'm pretty new to home brewing and have only made a couple of batch's so far which have been promising.
I am a computer programmer / web developer but have a passion for motorbikes. I think bikes and beer drinking go pretty well together (generally not at the same time though)
Just doing the extract brews at the moment. Would like to do some of the more involved stuff at some stage but just taking little steps and working my way up to it. Don't have a lot of space either and SWMBO objects to me leaving the fermenter in the kitchen
Like Guru, I have been lurking here for a while and have recently signed on officially. I am also a motorbiking brewer, which is a tenuous justification for hijacking Guru's thread.
I have been brewing for about 1 year so far, mainly doing Kit+Extract+Bits brews while gradually practicing the very techniques discussed on these pages along the way such as steeping, racking, and using liquid yeasts.
Beers of great men all remind us, we can make our life sublime
Welcome Saaz, nice name!
You better go over and stick up some picks in the bike thread, as also thank Guru for the use of his intro thread;-)
Nice to have you along. Being a kits and bits, extract or partial type of brewer, you're in my territory. I've recently done some Wetpaks from Country Brewer and I tell what, they are alright!
Stick around, share info and maybe enter the next lotto 'eh.
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the copper said that he'd 'been waiting all day for me to come along', I replied I got here as faaaast as I could!
Thanks for the welcome, guys and Guru in particular for graciously allowing me to hijack his thread.
My bikes are both steady workhorses and really aren't very photogenic by any stretch of the imagination. One is a 1994 BMW R80, which I use for longer jaunts. The other is a 1980 Yamaha XS 250, left over from when you HAD to get a 250 to learn on. I can't bring myself to sell it because, well, it's not worth anything to anyone and besides, I really get a buzz out of riding the thing around town. It's great fun. I enjoy it more than the beemer!
Recent brews I've done include a Pilsner, which I bottled about 6 weeks ago (might try one today in fact): Thomas Coopers Selection Pilsner tin, 1.5kg dried Pilsner Malt extract, Saaz and the liquid Budvar yeast, which I'd used for the first time.
Also this year so far, I've put down 2 Wheat beers: Thomas Coopers selection Wheat tin, 1.5 kg dried wheat malt extract and the liquid Weihenstephan yeast, which I can recommend as a step up from the safbrew T-58 I used to use.
Pilsners and wheats are my main styles, which I punctuate with 'now and then' styles like a pale ale, a dark ale or a kolsch.
Unfortunately, I'd been all set to brew some Pilsners over the winter months but my brew fridge (a wine fridge) has packed up just last week!
Beers of great men all remind us, we can make our life sublime
