I have been in love with craft beer ever since moving to Boulder in 1994. My love remained firmly in the tasting realm only. I always had the desire to brew, but time, space limitations, job commitments and kids always seemed a good excuse not to get started. The excuses ended in August of last year when I finally bought a self-contained brewing system that was easy to use, mobile and had a small storage footprint.
This was purchased from Ruby Street Brewing (a Fort Collins company) via The Brew Hut - my homebrew shop of choice - conveniently located right next to Dry Dock Brewing. I can't say enough about how easy it is to use this system. The hose connections are super simple, the 15.5 gallon kettles are awesome, and the pump makes life so much easier. Huge thanks to the folks at The Brew Hut for helping me get all the accessories needed for brewing...and there were a lot of accessories!
So, I want to start going through my brewing steps and documenting what I am doing in hopes of getting feedback as to where I am wrong and what I can be doing better. I have brewed two batches already and I am in the process of building a recipe for my next batch - all designed to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can (who knows, maybe someday I can get out of that software job).
My plans for this blog (at least in regards to the brewing topics) is to go over my process, talk about recipes I brew, talk about software I use and document the calculations I am using to help determine water amounts, efficiencies and recipe creation. I will also talk about some of the beer I have that I really like. This isn't intended to be a how to brew series, but because I am new to this, hopefully others will find something useful here - or hopefully correct me where I am doing something wrong.
Hopefully someone finds this enjoyable, and by following my learning process they can learn too.
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