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  Josh Brengle

Central Florida Homebrewers

  
  Homebrewery name SlowHead Brewing  
  e-mail jtbrengle@gmail.com  
  MCAB XII Recipe download: This is a basic ingredient recipe with notes and mash info.   
    Swine Flu Mild              ProMash .rec file     .txt file    html file  
     
  First brew: 2004 All grain brewer  
  Got serious: 2008  
       
 

If I had to pick
just one thing ...

 My Dad ...he helps me lift stuff  
       
  Most important
piece of equipment 		In Florida, it gets ridiculously hot.  Having temperature control of your fermentation is a MUST.  
       
  Keys to success: Quality ingredients, fermentation practices and packaging are the three things I find most important.  
  History:
 I started brewing on a Mr. Beer kit at 19 years old with a friend.  I hid the fermenter in my closet so my mom wouldn’t find it, and bottled it in 2-liter soda bottles.  The beer was disgusting.  Eventually I began bucket fermentations with cans of pre-hopped extract.  The beer was okay.  I would brew a few times a year, and really wasn’t serious about any of it.  In 2007, I started kegging and brewing all-grain.  By 2008, my interest in brewing was growing exponentially.  I began listening to internet radio and lurking on the forums.  I figured out what I was doing wrong and what I was doing right.  I entered competitions.  The beer was starting to get pretty decent.  In 2009, I began to enter quite a few competitions and became a beer judge.  It’s 2010 and I still have the bug….

Philosophy:
 My system is pretty ‘ghetto’ and money is tight right now.  Therefore, instead of investing in a brew system or equipment, I spend my cash on quality ingredients and anything related to fermentation (fridges, starter materials, etc).  I pay pretty close attention to the amount of yeast, pitching temp, and fermentation temp.  I do my best to keep it fun.  I like to watch people brew.  None of my techniques are particularly original.  They are an eclectic mix of things I’ve stolen from other people. 

Favorite quote: "Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink."   --- Whitstran Brewery sign
 

  

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