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Free Book By Palmer, How To Brew
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This was the first book I had on homebrewing and I got hooked. I began with an Liquid Malt Extract kits, a 6 gallon plastic bucket, a pack of pellet hops, dried yeast and some santi-tabs or something like that in 1992. My buddies and I drank Grolsh beer until I had enough to bottle 5 gallons of beer. The first batch was amazing! And I was hooked.
Fast forward 10 years and I was brewing all-grain, buying 50lb sacks of grain and hops by the lb, kegging with nearly 30 5-gal kegs, moving into yeast ranching (obtaining strains of yeast from a slant or slide and propogating them into 5L starters) and could ferment up to 25 gallons at a time.
There are so many different paths you can go, competitions, trying weird and exotic brews, or whatever. I never went the way of competition, I liked my beers and gave a lot away to friends and relatives. Everyone want me to come over with my portable keg system.
I do not brew currently but enjoy helping those that do.
Back when I was brewing big a brew forum member Hightest was the mead king. He put together a great resource but had a falling out w/ the forum owner.
Hightest's Honey Haven
I hope that helps.