Greetings from St Albans

[Andy02]

Hi all - you lot sound like a friendly bunch with all the answers. Having started stove-top all grain brewing with a kit last Xmas from the ladies at Home Brewtique just across town I made a good half dozen batches (about 12x330ml bottles per batch) of witbier, honey pale ale and milk stout. As I got more and more into it and the quality seemed to improve each time, I decided to go for it and splash out big time on a complete Grainfather set up (sorry!). So far I've brewed a Summer Lightning clone (not bad but needs some work - went a bit orange for some reason) and I've got 38x500ml bottles of 6X-alike conditioning away downstairs. That's what comes of being a Wiltshireman originally. The water round here is about as chalky as it gets so am experimenting with acid additions (CRS + Phosphoric) which have sorted out my mash pH a treat. Next planned expenditure is a GF Glycol Chiller for my fermenter as the temperature is far too high, even in the basement, especially over the summer, plus I'd like to cold crash and remove a lot more rubbish from the beer. Citra next - I'm very partial to Oakham's and Tring's bottles of the stuff. Anyway, would be great to meet up with other Hertfordshire-based homebrewers to compare brews and swap tips. Cheers, Andy!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum :thumba:

 

[Rodcx500z]

Welcome you will love it here

 

[Gerryjo]

Hi and welcome to the forum.Sounds like your up and running with good speed but be very careful as you may well know this can be a slippery slope of a hobby as it's very addictive.