Hi, I am Rob and I have been a homebrewer since 1997 when a college buddy, Ron Davis, introduced me to the hobby(or as my wife refers to it...obsession.) I was mostly an extract brewer utilizing some specialty grains up until 2004 when I made the shift to all-grain and haven't looked back since. I love almost all styles of beer, but am really interested in brewing Belgian styles. My "go to" beers have been APAs, IPAs, British bitters, Belgian Pale Ales and Saisons but in the last few years I have put a lot of time and effort into the "funky" stuff. I have done things like BDSA's secondaried with brett, all-brett fermentations, Berliner weiss, funky saisons, and currently have a Flanders red aging in secondary.
I hope to use this blog to record my future brewing escapades and will include pictures when I can. I use a 3-tiered brewing system with a 48qt cooler mash tun. My typical batches are 6 gallons but with my converted sankes I have the capability of doing up to 12 gallon batches. I chill using a March pump and a Shirron plate chiller with a copper pre-chiller due to the temperatures here in New Mexico. I have 3 chest freezers, all with temperature controllers, that I utilize as a fermentation chest, a lagering chest and a kegerator. I keg most of my batches into corny kegs with the exception of my stronger and funkier ales which all go into bottles.
I am lucky enough to have a very understanding wife that just happens to appreciate beer almost as much as I do. We even spent our honeymoon touring around Belgium and Germany a few years ago.
Cheers, Rob
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