New Brewer in Columbus Georgia

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Verge_25
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New Brewer in Columbus Georgia

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Here in Columbus craft beer always meant Guinness, Newcastle, or go home. Then restaurants started serving wider selections, then we got a brewpub in Phenix City, and now a store downtown called Maltitude that almost exclusively sells craft beer both bottled and from the tap. We still only have one store that sells brewing equipment, simply called Homebrew. I got into it a couple of years ago, but only ever brewed from kits. Like many, I was intimidated by how complex all-grain brewing sounded. Now that I've seen people do it first-hand, I feel very confident I could do it myself. I hope to get skilled enough to design my own recipes as well as crack the recipes of my favorite beers! The new owner of Homebrew recommended this site, so here I am! Eager and ready to learn!
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Awesome!

Welcome aBorg Verge_25!

There are a multitude of great brewers here brewing all manner of styles and via many methods...

Extract, Kits, Brew in a Bag, Partial Mash and All Grain and everyone is welcome!

This is by far the best beer forum, perhaps the best forum period, on the web!

Ask anything, share, post and brew!

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Welcome to the Borg!! jimjohnson is in your area I believe ( if he isn't who recommended the Borg ) working at a LHBS. Any questions you have, ask away someone here will pitch in with help.
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Traveling Red?
Yazoo Gerst Clone?
Peanut Butter Porter?

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Cherry Mead
California Moscato

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Hardly Apple Cider on tap
Hardly Cherry Lime-Aid on tap
Oktoberfestive-Ale on tap
PGA Cider (Pear, Ginger, Apple) on tap 3rd Founders Cup 2016 King Of The Mountain on tap
Bottoms Up Brown on tap GOLD 2016 Ohio Brew Week Silver 2016 Ohio State Fair Silver 2016 Son of Brewzilla, Silver 2015 Son of Brewzilla, Bronze 2015 King Of The Mountain on tap
NITWIT BELGIAN STRONG ALE Banjo-Dawg RCE bottled
DAWG LB PALE ALE bottled
CITRA SLAPPED AMBER ALE bottle
MO FREEDOM SMaSH bottle
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Silver 5
Bronze 5
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Welcome to the Borg! Glad you found us here!!!


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Welcome! Glad to have you. Please keep us up on your brewing. We all learn from each other.
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Verge_25 wrote: The new owner of Homebrew recommended this site, so here I am! Eager and ready to learn!
Welcome Verge, great to have you here! The new owner would be Jim Johnson or JJ as we call him here. We will be glad to help you with any questions you can think of. All of us here were new brewers at one time and would like to help pay it forward. Did you swing by Homebrew in late February when JJ was having the class? If so then we've met. I was brewing BIAB with Jim that day.

I swung by a liquor store on the way out of town. It was next to a Harley dealer? Y'all have a very nice selection down there.
Naked Cat Brewery On Tap
Yazoo Sue Smoked Porter
Octoberfest
Le Petite Saison
Czech Pale Lager
A Toast to Big Fuzzy Russian Imperial Stout at 10%
Belgian Blond
Flower Power IPA
4 Kilts Clueless Belgian Strong
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One Wort Two Yeast with WLP940
Shipwreck Saison
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Hey Verge! Welcome to the Borg! We're happy to help you make whatever you want. Designing recipes can be as simple or complex as you want. Knowledge simply comes with time, effort, and drinking your mistakes. Ask questions and enjoy the hobby!
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Verge_25 welcome. However, I'm not the owner(I wish) didn't mean to give that impression. I'm just the Shopkeeper, workin' for a buck just like you...I just got the dream job is all. :lol:
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I am drinking ale today."

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Hello and welcome to the Site!
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