I just bought all the makings for my first “own” brew. I should be brewing it sometime next week, with an estimated “Ready” time of Christmas day. I will doubtlessly have pictures, possibly video and all sorts of other good stuff about the beer forthwith. I am starting with just a basic extract kit (not real brewing I know, but it is a start) and modifying it with some additional malts. I will also be adjusting the fermentation and adding some goodies for the yeast to feast on that should increase my ABV around .5-.7% over the base kit.

In addition to this, I have three small (1-2 gallon) batches that I will be doing on a stovetop over the next month as “practice” batches. They are all older kits so I am not expecting a lot of fermentable sugars, or a high quality product to come out of these experiments.

Here goes it.