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I began home brewing around 1990 while I was
attending college finishing up working on my degree in Computer
Science and my minor in Industrial and Managemental Engineering.
My first attempts were simple extract brews using nothing more than
malt extract, sugar, and dry yeast. My first batch had a very strong
alcohol taste and I was very disappointed with the results. This led
to me giving up the hobby for other pursuits.
Around the year 2001, I began brewing again with a
simple kit my wife purchased for me from a homebrew store in Boston
via the Internet. After a couple of extract brews that had very
passable results, I began to yearn for more information regarding the
hobby. I studied many books and decided that my next option would be
to delve into all-grain home brewing. I began by using a simple three
bucket system that was entirely gravity fed. I learned much more about
the process and developed a desire to gain more control over different
aspects of the mashing, lautering, and sparging steps of all-grain
brewing.
After much deliberation, I began to research many
of the aspects of brew system construction including valves, pumping
options, hoses, electricity versus propane, etc... I found many great
resources on the Internet consisting of personal web pages,
newsgroups, and bulletin boards.
I also had quite a bit of help deciding what would
work best for my system as far as stand materials are concerned.
I decided to try copper since I had not seen any one else use this
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