Hello & a Quick Story

[Bizier]

Hi, my name is Dan, and it looks likely that I will be an alcoholic.

"Hi Dan"

Thanks firstly to Oliver and Geoff for an awesome site and forum. It is great and will be quite influential in my foreseeable future.

I wanted to share this introduction with a suitable audience, thus I have registered.

Tonight I had a cheeky after work beer at my local in Surry Hills, and was telling a mate all about my newfound interest in brewing and my current plans and trying to get him on board as first mate. We depart ways and after saying goodbye to him and the missus, I walked back around to the bar to get a couple of takeaway coopers long necks for reasons I assume I do not need to explain.
I get a phone call while waiting and it is the same mate telling me that there is a deposit of 10 or so empty coopers long necks around the side of the pub. So I get my beer and proceed to get the bottles home in 2 milk crates (there ended up being 18 in total) with some artful stealthlessness.
Anyway, as I get to my front door - I see that a neighbour has thrown out a brewing fermenter for recycling. I take everything inside and I realise that not only is it brand new with a layer of dust, but there are also all the fittings, thermometer and O rings and grommets inside still in packets!
I have 2 brews currently underway and was devising a scheme to rack and prime them from secondary vessels, and continue to brew in the newly washed ones, so I was on the lookout for a further 2 fermenters - now it is only one that I need.
So I have had a night of serious sterilisation (leaving some solution in all bottles after a wash, and giving the fermenter a good going over, before I sterilise again before use.

I had no one to tell except my mate, so I thought I would use this as my intro to the board.

Hello all
Dan

[Tipsy]

Hi, my name is Dan, and it looks likely that I will be an alcoholic.

Like you had a choice.

Welcome

[KEG]

nice intro - welcome mate

[homebrewer79]

Hi, my name is Dan, and it looks likely that I will be an alcoholic.

if your missus finds out, we had nothing to do with it welcome fellow jedi

[earle]

Hi, my name is Dan, and it looks likely that I will be an alcoholic.

It was definitely meant to be

[Kevnlis]

Welcome to the forum Dan.

[rwh]

Haha totally pre-ordained! Welcome.

[Boonie]

What an intro.......Welcome Dan.

I get like that, you taste a great beer you have made, get a bargain, score some free bottles and there is no-one there to tell who would actually enjoy the story as much as a Home Brewer.

Cheers

Boonie

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

How come i only find empty milk cartons and stuff

[Bizier]

Thanks guys.

It seems that the powers-that-be wish me to brew right now.
So who am I to disobey? I am merely here as a humble servant of destiny's life force... or something.
*cough*

I keep walking over to that fermenter and checking that it is real, and that I did not just dream it. Sometimes I find myself searching, of a morning, for a big pile of money that I found the previous night in my sleep - but this one is real - or I have damn stubborn hallucinations.

No doubt I will be calling upon your collective wisdom in order to produce great product.

I think up next is a stout and an ale while the temp is still about 19 deg - thinking of breeding up some of that whitelabs platinum bitter ale yeast so I have enough for a few brews. After this I plan to brew as many lagers for drinking in spring/summer. I think I will try to brew these concurrently with ales or whatever else I can manage at the temperature - maybe use lager yeasts or buy a heatpad. I wish to do some "healthy" (read: munted) spring lager comparisons.

Cheers
Dan