re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II

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Going to brew for the first time in over 3 years.

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My son is enrolled in a Food Science degree and is taking beer brewing as one of his electives, so he asked me to brew a beer with him.

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What college?

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The idea being that we can get four beers out of one brew, a robust porter, chocolate porter, coffee porter, and a chocolate coffee porter.
I just hope I still remember how to brew…

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Good luck! I hope brewing starts taking off again. I know locally, with the local homebrew shop closing, that sort of killed some of the interest. I went in the opposite direction, and though while more expensive, i like the endless variety of grains/yeast i have at my fingertips when ordering online. Last year i used 34/70 (dried yeast) for my lagers in the summer and that worked out fine.

I look back at my recipes and i can see my evolution as a beer drinker. First i was brewing mostly IPA's and stouts. Then i started to get into quick sours and IPA's. Then i completely stop doing quick sours and focused on mixed fermentation sours. Now i'm brewing mostly lagers with some west coast pale's/IPA's with 1 or 2 hazy's per year thrown in and maybe 1 or 2 mixed ferm sours.