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Yah OK I'm a Minnesoootan wanna fight about it?

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

Welcome to the insanity brotha,
ya'll seem well on your way.

Prost

Welcome to the inanity.

I thought Minnesootans were a bucolic, peaceful bunch......

Sounds like you two dove right in. Cheers!

Lucky to live so close to Northern Brewer. That is convenient!

Bishes wrote:starting our all-grain brewing with Jamil's oatmeal stout recipe.

And everything turned out GREAT! Our starter wasn't as much as we had hoped due to our stirplate not working but within 8 hours it was bubbling actively!

Bishes wrote:And everything turned out GREAT! Our starter wasn't as much as we had hoped due to our stirplate not working but within 8 hours it was bubbling actively!

Great to hear! Go back in the archives and catch the yeast shows with the White Brothers.

Welcome aboard!

Minnesoootan's are great, if you could just figure out how to type in that bad ass accent, well that would just be awesome. Keep up the brewing Brotha!