Funnily enough, most of it was from the wife! She got me started by buying me a kit from my LHBS for my birthday and has been enthusiastically tucking into everything I've produced so far.
But yes, next year I think I'll need to add a new liver to my Christmas wish list :rofl:
Santa brought me
a Wilko Chardonnay 6 bottle kit
TWO Woodforde's Wherry kits :clap:
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Currently brewing
FV1 Ginger wine (from the solids left after brewing fiery ginger beer)
FV2 Blackberry (CJJB recipe)
FV3 Orange WOW
FV4 Apple WOW
FV5 Cranberry
FV6 another Blackberry (and still about 7 lbs in the freezer)
FV7 Twinings Peach Teabag
On the shelf
60 gallons assorted beers from kits
4 gallons (or so) of fiery ginger beer
My wife got me the book For the Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops by Stan Hieronymus.
Since we're currently living out of suit cases she also got me a Samuel Adams Winter Classics Variety Pack. The chocolate bock is particularly interesting.
Got a stainless steel brew paddle, counter bottle capper, and a hanna digital thermometer. Posted links of the relevant items to my son and daughter in my wish list so got the things I wanted. All from our forum sponsers :thumb: .
I got a 'Homebrew Online' brewkit with a Coopers Dark malt can-thingy. I've just sanitised the FV etc and will be making the stuff this afternoon.
I got it from my missus and my Dad piped up saying that he used to homebrew back when he was in his 20s for a few years before giving it up when he moved house. He is as excited as I am to get going!
Pretty pleased with the contents of Santa's sack this year. I got the Jamil/White Yeast book, so I can stop bugging you all with yeast questions now, and also the steriliser pumping part for the top of my bottling tree.
Santa was really good to me a coopers cerveza and a coopers English bitter, a new FV with tap, bottle tree and a few other brewing things plus a American dad series 7 box set :) something good to watch when brewing.
She finally arrived :party: ...gotta say very impressed with the mini size of this compressor...for some reason I just thought it'd be bigger. That was the final piece of kit needed...brew ahoy