Hello New Readers!

Welcome to my blog! My name is Taylor and for Christmas 2010, my father, Larry, and I bought ourselves the equipment we needed to start brewing our own beer. Thank you for joining us on our journey from complete noobies to (hopefully) all-grain masters. Since getting the equipment, we have bottled four batches of our own homebrewed beer and are working on more, as you read. We have expanded our equipment and become more well-versed in brewing lingo, procedure, ingredients, and potential problems. There will be upcoming posts dedicated to the equipment we are using, the general procedure we have been following, and, of course, the beers we have been brewing!

So far we have yet to have a perfect brew; something has gone wrong or not quite according to plan in every one of our sessions. But this is how you learn! We have not yet needed to dump a batch but in each of our brews there is something we would have liked to have done differently. The most important take-away from our brews so far has been relax, Relax, RELAX! Yeast and the fermentation process are inconsistent and sometimes worrisome, particularly for novice brewers, but we have discovered that it is very hard to totally screw up.

I'm very excited to be starting this blogging project and look forward to hearing from you as my dad and I work on our new and delicious hobby!