In some way, home brewing and research is quite similar. You spend a lot of time reading, may it be on a new beer style or a new brewing technique you want to try. Then you perform the experiment, i.e. the brew day and after a while you have the final results which you try to access (i.e. tasting the beer). 

I have decided to start a new blog, this time in English as my old blog was in Swedish. The main reason for this is to reach out to a much larger community but also since I now live in Germany and it would be great to reach out to the home brewing scene here (and I do not really now German, yet). I have no clear plans for the blog yet, we will have to see how it evolves. I realized when brewing my first beer in Stuttgart that if I don't have a blog, I will not keep track of the recipes and the results. I can be quite sloppy when it comes to documentation! So this will be the main purpose of this blog! But hopefully I can share a lot more than just recipes and tasting notes. 

Before moving to Stuttgart, I sold all my brewing gear. Although it was sad to let go of all the things I accumulated over the years, I had a purpose. I simply wanted to brew smaller batches! On my old system, I brewed with a target to fill a 19 liter (5 gallon) keg. This is a lot of beer even if you invite friends over for a few beers! When buying my keging system, I did listen to a lot of people on the forums and on blogs which almost in unison had one motto: "brewing larger batches is better!". I do understand a lot of the arguments, like that it is cheaper taking for instance the cost of a package of yeast is the same if you brew 19 liter or 10 liter. However, I want to brew more batches of beer and I don't really drink too much beer at home! Also, cleaning out the 19 liter equipment I had was a big pain when you live in an apartment. I have now scaled down to batches targeting to fill a 9 liter keg! More on my new equipment in a later post, once I have bought all the stuff I need!