willheap
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Hello folks,
I'm Will. I live in Cardiff in sunny South Wales. I am a husband and a father of one little Princess (so far). I work for Welsh Water as a Cost Analyst - a job that nobody I have ever met finds remotely interesting, but fortunately, I do.
I have joined this forum for a variety of resource reasons; to find answers, find better ideas, find recipes but basically for support in my new venture.
Just like most people who start home brewing I am after a better tasting beer that is also cheaper. But I also have another urge to satisfy: The series of seemingly unrelated jobs that I have had in my life have lead me into my current position but it all started when I was a Process Engineer for a circuit board manufacturer in North Wales. Now, that was a fun and dangerous job that I miss now that I sit behind a desk all day. I got to play with chemicals, pipes, pumps, filters, tanks, heat and electricity all day long - a combination of elements that were fatal if you got it wrong - literally! Although home brewing may not be as fatal if you get it wrong (are there degrees of fatality??), it does have all of the other elements for the taking. The sound of a triple decoction, 20 stage mash running through the pipes sounds like fun to me - am I crazy? Not really, I just love the process of the whole thing and at the end of it all if my Holy Grail of a perfect dunkel weizen is reached then I'll be very happy indeed.
I don't have my gear set up yet. I have only started collecting the bits; brewing buckets, insulation, taps, valves, pvc and copper pipes, elbows and tees (in the post), heating elements, bottles, books, ideas and a space to put it all. At the moment, I'm not interested in brewing 100s ltr at a time. The standard 23ish ltr home brew is plenty for me and allows space for multiple experiments at a time (I hope). I'm sure that once I get into it I will want a full on, shiny, micro brewery but I'll deal with that later.
I haven't got my own recipes yet but I think that I will be heading down the Reinheitsgebot route to German beers, in particular their weizen and altbeer style. I don't have anything against British ales at all and I'm sure I will fit a few spicy numbers in over time. I feel there is a distinct lack of British made wheat beers around that are as good / better than the commercial German versions - but that's my opinion. Feel free to correct me and point me in the direction of the brewery and I'd be more than happy to compare them :)
That's me... right, I'm off to the fridge for a beer (sadly, it won't be home brew yet).
I'm Will. I live in Cardiff in sunny South Wales. I am a husband and a father of one little Princess (so far). I work for Welsh Water as a Cost Analyst - a job that nobody I have ever met finds remotely interesting, but fortunately, I do.
I have joined this forum for a variety of resource reasons; to find answers, find better ideas, find recipes but basically for support in my new venture.
Just like most people who start home brewing I am after a better tasting beer that is also cheaper. But I also have another urge to satisfy: The series of seemingly unrelated jobs that I have had in my life have lead me into my current position but it all started when I was a Process Engineer for a circuit board manufacturer in North Wales. Now, that was a fun and dangerous job that I miss now that I sit behind a desk all day. I got to play with chemicals, pipes, pumps, filters, tanks, heat and electricity all day long - a combination of elements that were fatal if you got it wrong - literally! Although home brewing may not be as fatal if you get it wrong (are there degrees of fatality??), it does have all of the other elements for the taking. The sound of a triple decoction, 20 stage mash running through the pipes sounds like fun to me - am I crazy? Not really, I just love the process of the whole thing and at the end of it all if my Holy Grail of a perfect dunkel weizen is reached then I'll be very happy indeed.
I don't have my gear set up yet. I have only started collecting the bits; brewing buckets, insulation, taps, valves, pvc and copper pipes, elbows and tees (in the post), heating elements, bottles, books, ideas and a space to put it all. At the moment, I'm not interested in brewing 100s ltr at a time. The standard 23ish ltr home brew is plenty for me and allows space for multiple experiments at a time (I hope). I'm sure that once I get into it I will want a full on, shiny, micro brewery but I'll deal with that later.
I haven't got my own recipes yet but I think that I will be heading down the Reinheitsgebot route to German beers, in particular their weizen and altbeer style. I don't have anything against British ales at all and I'm sure I will fit a few spicy numbers in over time. I feel there is a distinct lack of British made wheat beers around that are as good / better than the commercial German versions - but that's my opinion. Feel free to correct me and point me in the direction of the brewery and I'd be more than happy to compare them :)
That's me... right, I'm off to the fridge for a beer (sadly, it won't be home brew yet).
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