by SaazGorilla » Sunday Apr 15, 2012 11:48 am
Thanks for the welcome, guys and Guru in particular for graciously allowing me to hijack his thread.
My bikes are both steady workhorses and really aren't very photogenic by any stretch of the imagination. One is a 1994 BMW R80, which I use for longer jaunts. The other is a 1980 Yamaha XS 250, left over from when you HAD to get a 250 to learn on. I can't bring myself to sell it because, well, it's not worth anything to anyone and besides, I really get a buzz out of riding the thing around town. It's great fun. I enjoy it more than the beemer!
Recent brews I've done include a Pilsner, which I bottled about 6 weeks ago (might try one today in fact): Thomas Coopers Selection Pilsner tin, 1.5kg dried Pilsner Malt extract, Saaz and the liquid Budvar yeast, which I'd used for the first time.
Also this year so far, I've put down 2 Wheat beers: Thomas Coopers selection Wheat tin, 1.5 kg dried wheat malt extract and the liquid Weihenstephan yeast, which I can recommend as a step up from the safbrew T-58 I used to use.
Pilsners and wheats are my main styles, which I punctuate with 'now and then' styles like a pale ale, a dark ale or a kolsch.
Unfortunately, I'd been all set to brew some Pilsners over the winter months but my brew fridge (a wine fridge) has packed up just last week!
Beers of great men all remind us, we can make our life sublime