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Hi,

Have been browsing for some time after recommencing brewing following 16 year break. Registered a few days ago and was so keen to pop my posting cherry but could not think of what to ask. I have come to the conclusion that after just browsing this site for 6 months you have already increased my knowledge a hundred fold.

I thought I would just post a thank you to you all for increasing my beer and brewing knowledge so much so quick.

This is a great site!!

After 6 months I have done 20 brews. Each one is better than the previous. I now have 5 fermenters going, have to lock the garage, enter by the side door (if the garage door is seen to be open, they see, then they come, then they drink and they dont want to leave).

Just love the whole deal. In my life family is 1st, work comes as a forced habit and is not rated. Brewing, fishing, runnning the tracks around Mt Keira and jamming with my garage band/s are what I am about. This brewing caper complements all and keeps me at home.

Life is grand.


muddy

Good to see you have rejoined the brewing fraternity!

damm straight muddy...

My brewing has also gotten HEAPS better since I found this forum

All very helpfull chaps!

pixelboy wrote:damm straight muddy...

My brewing has also gotten HEAPS better since I found this forum

All very helpfull chaps!

i second that, i used to brew pretty good beer before but since joining this site it is now outstanding.

What do you play/

i just love learning to play my Strat and having several brews to help me.

just gotta love the sound of a good '86 Jap Strat!!!! Sounds heaps better than a lot of the Yank stuff from that period!!!!

Wassa wrote:What do you play/

i just love learning to play my Strat and having several brews to help me.

just gotta love the sound of a good '86 Jap Strat!!!! Sounds heaps better than a lot of the Yank stuff from that period!!!!

Get hold of a yank jackson their like heaven with strings

Wassa,

I play the drums - sort of.

Have a group of like minded mates - love beers and making music.

Two bands - one on Thurs nights and one on Sunday arvos.

My garage is blessed by gods of garage rock. I have one neighbour - he is in his 80's and cant hear a thing. Footy fields / high school are the other neighbours. Can jam at any time and no one hears.

It is brilliant - my sons, their mates, their mates fathers, my mates, their sons - we all get in there, brew and rocknroll.

Last Xmas eve sums it up for me - a spot of drum pratice in the morning, my son the snake heard and called his mate who turned up . Some others came and before long we had five fourteen year olds going hard with me at the drums. One of the kids dad's (a guitarist) came to get him. Bad move. We were carried out of the 'rage that evening after jamming to every sixties song we could think of playing and consuming way too many home brews.

You are here for a good time.....

muddy

You are here for a good time.....

Here here muddy, it certainly aint a long time and good on ya sounds like your garage is the place to be, good beer and good music, way to go m8

Hey Muddy, Ex steel-city boy here in Newcastle....welcome.
Mate, I have picked up on so many hints and tips and it's fantastic. Many thanks to Oliver and Geoff for starting this.
I have also posted my different recipes, that have worked for me, on this site.
Ensure that if you find that special blend, you share.
Again welcome back to the fold, and cheers.

Another ex-Gong lad here

Grew up in the shadow of Mt Keira

Welcome aboard Muddy (is that short for Mudguts?)

Cheers

Guys - thanks for the welcome.

This would seem to be a very friendly place full of good times and great advice.

I see there is a few gong people on this forum. It is a small place and would not be at all surprised if I know or know of some of you - and probably vice versa.

Beer pig - I live under the show of Mt Keira and unfortunately muddy did start as mudguts. If that means anything to you BP - it wasnt me!!!!
How long have you been away from the illawarra?

Boonie, sharing and learning is what I am here for. I just tasted (last night) what is definately my best effort to date. Will find the right place and have a rant about it.

cheers

muddy

Absolutely great thread, but one disturbing comment.

Muddy? "Work comes as a forced habit and is not rated"!

Oh dear. And here I am, an employer of 20, and love home brewing.

Too much bother for most, if not all, of my employees! Probably all!

I think it was Dogger Dan (where is he?) who complained recently that his organisation was depriving surrounding villages of their idiots. I suspect that my business is guilty of similar charges.

Muddy, it worries me that most, if not all, of my employees would align themselves with you. Hopefully your venture into HB separates you from my employees.

Please Muddy, work has to rate. If it doesn't, you wouldn't be a Home Brewer!

Hope this post is not out of line.

If it is, hopefully Oliver will delete it.

eh?

Muddy

I've lived away from the Illawarra for 17 years, all of my family still live there & I get back every year or so to check on them

Next question, are you a fan of Rugby Union?

Cheers

Pacman,

Not offensive in the least. We all have our points of view. I do stand by my comment though. I work to live not live to work It would take a long thread to fully explain - but lets just say I have put in, got spat out , reinvented and now am Asia Pacific manager for a global company. Office is 100 k's from work, the phone rings 24 x 7 and at my stage of life I have just about had enough of the rat race.

I am but a simple yobbo from the 'gong who has bluffed the world and done alright. It is a neccessary but hard slog.

Beerpig, you scare me. You know too much. Go the mighty Vikings!!!!
Please dont tell me I belted you, rucked you or committed some other offensive act upon your body in the name of winning a rugby game, but if I did I apologise.


Muddy

Muddy

Not sure about getting rucked by you, but I do remember taking many tightheads off the blue scum at Viqueens field.

I hear the club president is layed up with a broken leg, exactly what he deserves the old bastard.

Tightheads taken from one brother .................... broken leg for the other brother

Go the Wombats!

Cheers

BP,

Long live the befuddled wombat! Wish the club was still around, and I mean that sincerely. Used to love playing Weerona. Not the same with joint venture clubs.

You have me thinking hard. I cant let sh*t like this drop. Taking tight heads (delete blue scum and viqueen references) means you are either a prop or a hooker. Old Wombat props cant read nor write so you are an old hooker. Brother rerference is interesting. Our pres has a brother who was a wombat hooker and left town late eighties. Initials BM??

Either way - it is a small world and this name has got me into so much strife over the years you would think I would remember to not use it!!

Muddy

Very good Mud

I believe we won two out of three grades in my last game down at Vikings and also took out the boat race later in the clubhouse, despite the lumps on my head from an unappreciative opposition front row

The demise of the Wombats was sad indeed, they should never have left Wiseman Arms Park, which was a drunken stagger from where I lived

Good days

Say g'day to the cripple if you run into him. Had many beers with him a couple of weeks back when he flew up to Bris Vegas to watch the Wallabies pants the Springboks

Cheers mate

BP,

I am sure it would have been beer for you and shandies for the gstrung one.

Still have a chat with your old man each weekend down at 'punishment park'. He makes much more sense than el presidente'.

Get to most state capitals pretty regularly with work. I will make the effort to let you know I am coming to Brissie next time - maybe we can catch up and drain a bar. or two.

Take care

Muddy

Mud

You are correct about the shandies but he has improved with age, not much mind you.

Dad is another who won't retire, still refeering juniors in his spare time, but more power to him I reckon. I hope to be as fit at his age.

I'm in Nth Qld, so not much chance of a beer in Brisbane. Will be in Wollongong in January to celebrate forty years of poor behaviour & many good beers.

The thing that scares me most is that there are young Muddies getting about, the world isn't safe!

Cheers