Pumpy
Pumpy's Brewery.
- Joined
- 8/11/04
- Messages
- 4,014
- Reaction score
- 7
Hi Everyone I thought I better introduce myself my name is Pumpy.
I am a Pome , I have lived in Australia 21 years I am Naturalised but people still ask me where I come from as I speak with a funny accent , I am a baby boomer and refuse to grow old, one day I am gunna grow up!.
I first brewed a concentrate over 25 years ago ,to my recollection it tasted rough , a girlfriend used to bring me around kilos of hops as she worked in the Carlsberg brewery in Northampton , at the time I just flung a few in my brew( dumped most of them 4kg hops), my mother used to brew wine and I helped her a lot and I could make Elderflower champage which was a bit like a spumante with a beautiful flavour I remember tying the corks down ,It was fantastic .
I started brewing againin Australia just over a year ago with kits and kilo but whilst initial results went well ,I think I was brewing in too high temperatures and generally results were poor ,at this stage I nearly gave up .
I used to read the US sites where they had all manner of fancy gear and thought I would like to do that ,a friend got me a couple of old legal kegs and I then thought how I going to cut these and set to work cutting the lids off with a dremmel.
There was still a long way to go it took about four months to get everything to start.
I was surprised how many little bits and tools I had to buy to do all the little jobs and still going ,I am not that fantastic with building things, but sometimes surprise myself (I dont give up easily),I ask engineers at work,read the net and use other peoples brains cuz I dont have many cells left .
My first All grain brew, I think everything went wrong that could of and pulled the grain out twice of the tun, that day seven hours later after the slowest sparge I put the yeast in, at that stage I was happy, but I had to sit down and reassure myself this was my first batch and I am sure it would improve there was a learning process.
It was if I was blindly on a mission to brew real beer with no real experience but I believed I could do it .
I brewed another seven batches of the same Ale recipe and a brown ale also a wheat & a Bok fresh wort kit , beer was everywhere was everywhere.
I assured the Missus I would stop until after Christmas and there is now not many batches left.
I made a new years resolution to try to make different beers and lagers, which required more gear, lagers take longer.
I really know little about brewing but the results I am very happy with,I have learned 90% of what I know from reading the Palmer book and reading the forum postings and some great help from a few guys on the forums who have gone out of there way to give me good advise .and point me in the right direction for that I am very grateful.
Thanks everyone!!
Pumpy
I am a Pome , I have lived in Australia 21 years I am Naturalised but people still ask me where I come from as I speak with a funny accent , I am a baby boomer and refuse to grow old, one day I am gunna grow up!.
I first brewed a concentrate over 25 years ago ,to my recollection it tasted rough , a girlfriend used to bring me around kilos of hops as she worked in the Carlsberg brewery in Northampton , at the time I just flung a few in my brew( dumped most of them 4kg hops), my mother used to brew wine and I helped her a lot and I could make Elderflower champage which was a bit like a spumante with a beautiful flavour I remember tying the corks down ,It was fantastic .
I started brewing againin Australia just over a year ago with kits and kilo but whilst initial results went well ,I think I was brewing in too high temperatures and generally results were poor ,at this stage I nearly gave up .
I used to read the US sites where they had all manner of fancy gear and thought I would like to do that ,a friend got me a couple of old legal kegs and I then thought how I going to cut these and set to work cutting the lids off with a dremmel.
There was still a long way to go it took about four months to get everything to start.
I was surprised how many little bits and tools I had to buy to do all the little jobs and still going ,I am not that fantastic with building things, but sometimes surprise myself (I dont give up easily),I ask engineers at work,read the net and use other peoples brains cuz I dont have many cells left .
My first All grain brew, I think everything went wrong that could of and pulled the grain out twice of the tun, that day seven hours later after the slowest sparge I put the yeast in, at that stage I was happy, but I had to sit down and reassure myself this was my first batch and I am sure it would improve there was a learning process.
It was if I was blindly on a mission to brew real beer with no real experience but I believed I could do it .
I brewed another seven batches of the same Ale recipe and a brown ale also a wheat & a Bok fresh wort kit , beer was everywhere was everywhere.
I assured the Missus I would stop until after Christmas and there is now not many batches left.
I made a new years resolution to try to make different beers and lagers, which required more gear, lagers take longer.
I really know little about brewing but the results I am very happy with,I have learned 90% of what I know from reading the Palmer book and reading the forum postings and some great help from a few guys on the forums who have gone out of there way to give me good advise .and point me in the right direction for that I am very grateful.
Thanks everyone!!
Pumpy
