From: rp9780@mexico (Rudyard A K Porter)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
Subject: Re: New hobbyist needs everything - things to buy, advice...
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:53:35 GMT
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.

slndw@cc.usu.edu writes:
: In article <oe7moB2w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>, murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy) writes:
: > Greetings!
: > 
: > I've been lurking for awhile now and enjoy how many of you are so into 
: > the hobby.  Your knowledge and seriousness are impressive.  I'd like to 
: > try my hand at zymurgy but don't know where to begin.  All I know is that 
: > I can get started for $50-$100.  Is this right?
: > 
: > I suppose some basic questions might be:
: > 
: > 1.  What do I need, anyway?
: 
:   << deleted nice list of stuff >>
:
: > 2.  Where can I get this stuff?
: 
: there are many good suppliers.  Check your yellow pages under "beer making"
: or "brewing" or "homebrewing" or "winemaking" or "zymurgy."  Or you can
: get stuff from a catalog.  I have one here that is ok.  the prices on equipment
: look a bit high, but the extracts look reasonable, and if you order over $30 (
: or something) they pay the s&h.  Their address is:
: 	William's Brewing
: 	P.O. Box 2195
: 	San Leandro  CA  94577
:           phone #(510) 895-2745
: 
: Another one is George(?) Paige out of Minnisota, but I don't have
: that address handy.
:

This is James Page Brewing Company, Minneapolis, MN.  Phone (612) 331-2833
Also call  Brew & Grow, Minneapolis, MN. Phone (612)780-8191
There's another one called Great Fermentations of Santa Rosa.  I don't
have a # or address with me here, but it's Santa Rosa, California.

I prefer to get my supplies from a shop where I can talk to real
people, check the goods over, and ask questions face-to-face.  But
get your goods wherever you can and jump into the hobby! (way of
life?... no, too deep....)
 
<< Other good advice deleted >>
: > 
: > I'm not all that interested in traveling to exotic locations to get the 
: > equipment I need.  If necessary, can I improvise by brewing in my bathtub 
: > or some other stupid thing?  
: 
: 
: If you like to bathe, I am sure you could rig something up.  But
: you will need an awfully big tub to accomidate you, your brewpot, AND
: your dog.   Also, if you choose to do this, uuse a gas stove.  You are
: not supposed to use electricity in the tub.
: 

Wow, I don't know about brewing in the bath tub.  My girlfriend's dad
told me he did this in college, but I think it's the stuff of
euphemized legends.  The bath tub, the place where you get clean every
day, contains an orgy of bacteria and other beer-unfriendlies.  Don't
try it, you only waste good beer.

: > 
: >                      Your friend in Lawrence, Massachusetts...
: >                                  - - - Murph
: > 
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: 
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Rudyard Anderson Knox Porter             *  Life's but a stumbling shadow,
rp9780@medtronic.com                     *  Full of sounds of beer glasses,
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