Hi all

[Gyro]

Hello all, may I start by saying thanks for approving my membership. I'm returning to homebrewing after many years of inactivity. I started off with a John Smith's bitter kit way back when, and made a few brews, mainly from kits, progressing up to my legendary (amongst my friends anyway) Sui-cider. This was made from a Boots strong white cider kit, which I *ahem...* enhanced by using 4kg of sugar instead of the recommended 1.3 kg and using champagne yeast to tolerate the extra alcohol produced; so technically probably more an apple wine than a cider, but it is still remembered by many of its casualties 30+ years on.

I'm intending to stay mostly with kits for the time being, but who knows where my journey may take me. My current brew is a Beerworks Bohemian Blonde Pilsner and I'm at the stage where I've just added the hop sachet. In the pipeline are a Ciderworks cider kit, a MYO IPA, a Winexpert Merlot and a Winexpert Sauvignon Blanc.

I look forward to learning from the forum (I've already got a fair bit of useful info before registering), and hopefully, time permitting, will post once in a while .

Cheers all, Chris.

 

[Buffers brewery]

Welcome Chris. Happy brewing

 

[The Baron]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Welcome Chris - lots of people on here making kits who can learn from your experience: it’s good to set up a ‘brew-day’ thread so interested people can tune in, and also to keep a record for yourself of what you did and how well it worked out :-)

 

[Rwilts]

Welcome

 

[Gyro]

Thanks for the welcomes .

Welcome Chris - lots of people on here making kits who can learn from your experience: it’s good to set up a ‘brew-day’ thread so interested people can tune in, and also to keep a record for yourself of what you did and how well it worked out :-)

I will indeed start a brew day thread when I start my next brew, although I think people would be learning from my mistakes rather than experience .

 

[MashBag]

We all make mistakes, I have started calling mine 'experiments'... which is better than calling them 'Gladys'

 

[old dog new tricks]

Thanks for the welcomes .

I will indeed start a brew day thread when I start my next brew, although I think people would be learning from my mistakes rather than experience .

hey some mistakes turn out to be the best brews