MoBlo
#DutchCourage
Hi there!
I am a beer lover, and luckily I married one too! Growing up and spending our student years in the Netherlands I had the pleasure of having access to the most wonderful Belgian Beers, but also some great Dutch brews, of course.
After moving to the UK in 2011, we got to learn more about all the smaller breweries out here, and have tasted a shedload of great ales and beers over the years, starting to appreciate the smaller breweries and craft beers.
So, this Christmas, my husband and I were given a starting kit (BrooklynBrewShop in collab with the Dutch HEMA) for our first ever home brew attempt. We started yesterday, and are already hooked, and even started looking at a Grainfather, FFS... :-?
But, we have told ourselves we have to have at least a few (read: 10-ish successful brews of our own with the starter equipment we have now (apart from the fact that we need some bigger strainers and pans.... see pics below)
So, yesterday we started with the "Belgian Blond 5%", and are already setting ourselves up for failure / not too brilliant beer, but the idea that our pantry is now a brewery is a-ma-zing!
So hello! Hope to learn a lot here, and to contribute to the forum as an active member. :drunk: We're hoping to be brewing some nice Dutch/Belgian influenced blond/gold ales in the future, and I hope to be able to create an IPA that my husband likes.
Some pics of our first brewing session:
We need bigger pans....
And now we wait...
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I am a beer lover, and luckily I married one too! Growing up and spending our student years in the Netherlands I had the pleasure of having access to the most wonderful Belgian Beers, but also some great Dutch brews, of course.
After moving to the UK in 2011, we got to learn more about all the smaller breweries out here, and have tasted a shedload of great ales and beers over the years, starting to appreciate the smaller breweries and craft beers.
So, this Christmas, my husband and I were given a starting kit (BrooklynBrewShop in collab with the Dutch HEMA) for our first ever home brew attempt. We started yesterday, and are already hooked, and even started looking at a Grainfather, FFS... :-?
But, we have told ourselves we have to have at least a few (read: 10-ish successful brews of our own with the starter equipment we have now (apart from the fact that we need some bigger strainers and pans.... see pics below)
So, yesterday we started with the "Belgian Blond 5%", and are already setting ourselves up for failure / not too brilliant beer, but the idea that our pantry is now a brewery is a-ma-zing!
So hello! Hope to learn a lot here, and to contribute to the forum as an active member. :drunk: We're hoping to be brewing some nice Dutch/Belgian influenced blond/gold ales in the future, and I hope to be able to create an IPA that my husband likes.
Some pics of our first brewing session:
We need bigger pans....
And now we wait...
