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Hi All,

My name is Mark. Have been posting for a while now and just getting around to introducing myself <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->

At this stage I have done a couple of kit brews and for my next brew I am doing a partial "extract" (some steeping and making a hop tea). Hope to move into Extract fully after Xmas, just need to sort out a boiler and wort chiller.

Really enjoying the site and lots of you have been loads of help already.

Cheers,
Mark

welcome lee/googoomuck, tba and halite, great to see so many new faces coming to the site lately. Be sure to check out the knowledge base.

Hi fellow brewers.

Here goes my 1st post <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Finally got all the bits together to brew a full 40pint kit, started off today with Woodefords NOG dark ale, hope it turns out OK. Anyone tried that before? Previous brewing attempt was a demijohn of cider from apples from the folks back garden early October, that's all bottled, just waiting away. Also put together a Solomon Grundy 7day White wine kit while doing the ale, I decided to invert the sugar before adding to help fermentation along, not sure if there's mutch point being a cheap wine kit but that's happpily bubbling away already. The beer however is not as quick to begin fermenting, but keeping a close eye on that. Hopefully it's just a slow starter!

BTW great site guys!

Cheers
James

Welcome to the site, James.

Welcome James.

The Solomon Grundy cheap wine kits can actually work out quite well and kit hacking is always a good idea. My wife usually does the wine but a while back I did a secondary fermentation of a medium sweet white wine kit (solomon grundy) and added raspberries in to it so it has a light raspberry taste now.

Experimentation is the best part of brewing yourself and I like to experiment on beer <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Cheers guys.

Saruman, that Solomon Grundy wine is a 7day kit, which when I read it first thought no way can you make a drinkable wine in 7 days, but here goes! I did make wine once when I was in college with a kit I got my dad for Xmas, pre-Internet days <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: --> so I was pretty much flying alone, but this site and the likes are a godsend!