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I need to learn to be a better brewer. I decided that a good way to do this and get a nice broad set of experiences with ingredients and recipe design is to spend a few years brewing every recipe in Brewing Classic Styles. Seems like a natural thing to blog about, so therefore:

http://www.funstonbrewing.com/blog

Probably going to take four years or more to get all the brews done, but it should be fun in the mean time.

I will be interested in following along!

pfooti wrote:Probably going to take four years or more to get all the brews done, but it should be fun in the mean time.

Very true! Will you be providing tasting notes on the finished beers? I am sure you have already thought of this but it might be a good idea start with the lambics/geuze and other sours first.

Good luck on your adventure.

Yes, I'm definitely planning on doing multiple posts per style, including tasting notes. My current plan is to start in on the long-brewing beers in a couple of months. First I need to get a handle on the system with a few faster-maturing beers, then I'll work on getting the sours and stuff into glass. The annoying bit, of course, is getting enough carboys to handle it and getting extra plastic tubing and stuff for the sours. But it'll be fun; I've never brewed anything with bacteria or brett.

I am probably about 3/4ths of the way through brewing BCS, my basic rule is to brew it by the book, then re-brew with changes. My goal is to finish the book eventually. Need to do a tally to see where things stand.

Nice, I'm impressed. That's a lot of recipes to be doing twice or more. But it already seems to be shaping up into a neat way to learn about the marginal effects of different recipes and fermentation profiles.