[AngryGerman]

Hi, I figured I would introduce myself.

Born in germany 1971, 6 years in the german navy, met my wife on aol , moved to the US in 1997 became a citizen 2004. Work for Big Blue....

I am brewing since August 2005 so not for a long time. so far I made Oktoberfest, irish red ale,Double IPA, Holiday Ale, 6 male Pumpkin Ale and a Weizenbock . Currently I have 2 IPA's in the secondaries, different recipes. I just put my order in to make a "deep shaft Stout" and and a English Bitter.

I am big into hops... the hoppier the better.

well thats it.. if you have questions just ask......

[hevimees]

Hi and welcome to the hobby and the forums.

Ok, so that's six months and eight brews, either you drink a lot of you have a
huge reserves... Man I'm jealous


Now that I think of it, I've never introduced myself, so here goes.

I was born in 1982 and have been brewing since winter 2004. I live with a
girlifriend and a dachschund in Oulu in northern Finland. I study maths in the
university and should graduate in spring 2007.

I make only extract brews since I don't have the equipment nor the access to
ingredients for all-grain brews. I'm also quite a novice when it comes to beer
drinking in general, but I've been trying to taste as many different beer styles
as possible. Currently my favourite store-bought beers have been the belgian
Trappist ales and Sinebrychoff Kaura (a finnish lager beer with oats and
honey).

I just bottled a batch of Cooper's Sparkling Ale and I'm planning on making an
Imperial Stout of some sort with a friend. We'll probably make it from Cooper's
Stout extract with added malt and possibly some brown sugar, but that
remains to be seen.

[AngryGerman]

How do you get your recipes ? DO you make em from scratch or do you have a base recipe and modify it to your needs.

I get my recipes mostly from the zymurgy magazin or from a recipe book that I bought. after I found a base recipe I like I bastardize it ( never mind that most of the time you cant find the grains they want anyway )

Do you keep track of your brews ? I started keeping a journal of when I bought, what grains ( including brand ) what hops and all that . This year i also started keeping the recipes I tried online. Maybe the admin here can add it here so that we can share recipes and reviews.

I have mine @ http://www.num1kitten.com/homebrew/

Feel free to try one of my recipes if you like ( so far I have only put the 2 IPS from 2006 on it )
The nice thing ist that you can keep track of your batches and see when its time to rack,bottle and drink....

the script is called cyberbrau and can be downloaded @ hotscripts.com