Beer Class
Scott | March 22, 2008I had been tossing around the idea of getting into homebrew for a while. Not wholeheartedly, just kind of a “Wouldn’t it be neat someday” thing. There is a homebrew store in Norfolk called HomeBrew USA. I got some friends, my dad and my brother together for a beer school on Saturday, March 22nd. As soon as you could smell the grains, I was hooked. This would be my new obsession.
The class was great (and I highly recommend anybody in the Hampton Roads area check it out). Our instructor, was very knowledgeable. He’s even growing his own hops. Basically, the class consists of going through the brew process all the way to pouring the wort into the fermenter. To be honest, some of the stuff the instructor told us went over my head but it was all very interesting stuff.
I already had some equipment that my brother-in-law gave me a long while back. It had a primary fermentor (bucket), bottling bucket, racking cane, bottle capper, bottle filler and probably what was 6 year old corn sugar (I threw that out). So I figured I’d use that and just pick up some additional pieces of equipment. I got another bucket for a secondary (more on that later), some caps, an auto siphon with some tubing and an air lock. Oh yeah, and a beer kit to make a pale ale.
My dad and brother picked up full equipment kits and beer kits to make a Newcastle clone (Ryan) and a blonde ale clone (dad).
Can’t wait to start.
