About
In April of 2000, I started out like most home brewers, working on the kitchen stove with an extract + grain setup. A few weeks of fermentation later, I took a sample of my first Guinness clone beer to The Pumphouse in Struthers, Ohio. Greg, the owner of the Pumphouse, liked what I had made, and invited me to stick around, as there was a home brewers "taste night" later that evening. I was amazed at what the other brewers were making, and after some encouraging reviews of my own beer, I joined the "Pumphouse Brew Crew" and Y.A.H.O.O. (Youngstown Area Home brewers of Ohio).
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