My brother and I started brewing in our Minneapolis apartment (about 5 miles from Northern Brewer's retail store) in mid-February. We already had a kegerator so we jumped right into a keg system. We brewed a Hefeweizen (twice), an extra pale ale (twice, the first time we messed up the grains by not having them crushed properly prior to the brew), a cream ale (drinking it right now, so good!), and we have a belgian blond in primary right now.
In June we moved out of the apartment and into a house in St. Paul (3 miles from Northern Brewer) and immediately bought a propane burner and 10gal kettle for fullboils. This coming weekend (after we get the stirplate working) we will be starting our all-grain brewing with Jamil's oatmeal stout recipe.
This started as a fun hobby to get cheap-but-decent beer and has progressed into a terribly-expensive-but-good beer and listening to the BN has NOT helped me save money! The snow just melted 2 weeks ago so it's nice to be able to brew outside
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