Profile of Jon Baldwin
 

• Brewing since 2006
   
• I bought a homebrew equipment package at a garage sale for $20 and started brewing
   
• Reason for Brewing
   
• Initially I started because I wanted to replicate my favorate beer, Cherry Kriek, saving the hefty $5 per bottle I soon learned Homebrewing doesn't save you any money Why do I continue?  It became a series of mad passionate science experiments Rarely do I read books, I've read four homebrew books now...cover to cover  Plus countless hours researching on the WEB and reading homebrew magazines Homebrewing is now my spare time consuming hobby, which includes growing my own Hops
   
• Favorite Beers
   
• Belgium cherry kriek and other sour beers...as long as the weather is tropical
• hoppy IPA's
• sweet and malty Dopplebock's
• I prefer Ales over Lagers, many of my homebrew friends can't understand
   
• Beers Brewed... (mostly Ales, though I did one Lager)
   
• Malt barley beers of America and beyond
• Malt barley w/adjunct beers
• Wheat Beers
• Hoppy beers
• Ciders, Meades and Melomels
   
• Special Techniques
   
• I've devised a homebrewing format I call Kitchen Mash which is basically small batch all-grain brewing in the kitchen with kitchen equipment the advantage...equipment is very inexpensive, you probably already have everything.  the disadvantage...only small batches are possible (typically 3 gallons) for more info on that, see my post on our discussion forum Beer - Brewing Techniques - All-grain brewing in the Kitchen
   
• Final Thoughts, "Before I started brewing...
   
• I knew very little about beer"
• Except for a few craft beers I didn't really like beer"
• I didn't know what Hops were"
• I didn't really know what Malt was, I did know it was sweet and made milkshakes taste better"
• I was very much into Wine (the expensive type made from grapes)"
   
• Lastly, to tie it all together. Maybe I can't replicate my favorite brews as cheaply as I can buy them...if you can find them ! But I can brew many great tasting alcoholic beverages much cheaper than the wine I use to drink....OK I still drink a little of that expensive wine