Hi all

[djanto]

I joined up a week ago when i came across the site on a late night web surf. Have just recently got back into brewing after a 30 year hiatus. Started brewing in my college days due to economic necessity as couldn't afford to get inebriated enough on inflated pub prices of almost a pound a pint as far as i recall lol
Built myself a nice man cave last year and then my other half surprised me with a starter kit from HBW for my birthday as she recalled me often mentioning i used to brew. So my passion for brewing was ignited again and i have been gradually building up my equipment etc over the last 6 months to get back up to speed. Its a different world now compared to 30 years ago , so much easier now to get great ingredients and the equipment has improved slightly. I started off just with kits , Coopers, Munton etc but soon wanted more so I would hack the kits with my own extra ingredients etc until eventually i got into extract brewing on a small scale, once i discovered hops i was hooked, i like a hoppy beer.
This time around I am just back with the kits and hacking them to my taste but i hope to get back to extract brewing soon. I also brew wine and some other things that I don't see mention of here from my initial visits
Am so pleased to have found this very useful site and genuinely surprised that home brewing is so big now and I look forward to contributing more in the future once i have got back up to speed. Cheers!

[DEMPSEY]

Your very welcome. Your story rings a bell with myself as I had brewed 30 odd years ago as well and one night a few years back hit on homebrew forums. 

[irish_goat]

Welcome aboard. Brewing since before I was born. 

Whereabouts are you based Djanto?

[djanto]

Thanks 

am in Lusk, north county dublin

[ronniedeb]

Welcome Djanto!

[Will_D]

Welcom Back!

Lusk Eh!

You are more than welcome to our next meeting in The Old Boro Swords Tuesday 8 th of March from about 7pm

Here is a link to our NCB forum:

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/board,23.0.html

We meet in O.B Swords 2nd Tuesday and Fowlers, Malahide every 4 th Tuesday.

Looking foreward to meeting you

Will

[djanto]

thanks Will
yes I'm originally from Skerries but am in Lusk these days
I will certainly try to get to the Swords meeting at some stage, I will try to have something ready to bring along, I've nothing even brewing at the minute due to family issues the last couple of weeks so will need to get my arse in gear

[Will_D]

No problems if no beer. We often have too much!

See you when you are free.

[djanto]

too much beer !
well thankfully i have never uttered that sentence before lol thanks and will see you soon