(Re)Introduce yourself here!

[Mike C-Z]

Name: Mike Conlon-Zimmerman
How long have you been brewing?: August 30th 2008.
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: all grain.
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: Been working on an oatmeal stout lately
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: Just beer
What's the best beer you think you've made?: India Red Ale
Any other fun hobbies?: Painting, camping, going to see art at museums/galleries, and of course eating my wife's delicious cooking (is that a hobby?)

[rose_norris]

Name: Tom Rose
How long have you been brewing?: Since 2007
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: Partial Mash
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: The big ones, especially Belgians
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: Cider, and the occasional red wine
What's the best beer you think you've made?: Well, there was one in my first year or two that I lost my procedure and could never duplicate... other than that a Belgian Dubbel, but we goofed on the ingredients quantities and it was extremely big. Took two different yeasts, several fermentations, and almost a blown bucket lid, but the results were mighty tasty!
Any other fun hobbies?: Photography, kayaking, and avoiding the office.count?

[scottt]

Name: Tom Rose

Are you the dog training Tom Rose?

If so, I live just a couple miles from your facility and have GSDs that compete at the national level in Schutzhund...

[Dustin_J]

Name: Dustin Jundt
How long have you been brewing?: 3+ years
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: All Grain
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: Pretty much anything, but I'm really partial toward German, especially Bavarian, styles
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: Just beer
What's the best beer you think you've made?: Probably a Traditional Bock or a Strong Scotch Ale.
Any other fun hobbies?: Golf, basketball, softball, motorcycles, BBQ

[Bentk]

Name: Ben Kniepkamp

How long have you been brewing?: 12+ Years

Extract, partial mash or all grain?: All Grain

What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: English Styles mostly. But I have one hybrid american Pale session beer that I brew a lot of.

What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: I have brewed the apple cider. Beer is better IMHO

What's the best beer you think you've made?: Vienna Lager

Any other fun hobbies?: Playing with my 2 boys, bothering my wife, wood turning, photography, building brew equipment

[Lynux]

Name: Sean Heidmann
How long have you been brewing?: Since 2007
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: All grain baby
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: Love em all but a big hoppy IPA just might be my favorite, love Saison too though
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: Cider and Mead
What's the best beer you think you've made?: Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter
Any other fun hobbies?: golf and shooting bambi

[Alpha Male]

Name: Jeff Harbaugh
How long have you been brewing: 13 years total 10 all grain
Favorite style brew/drink: Barley wine, cat 23, hoppy stuff
Best beer ever made: Rye wine with Drew
Other fun hobbies: My twin girls hockey team

[Newtonius]

Name: Matthew Nelson
How long have you been brewing?: 15+ years
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: All Grain
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: German /Bavarian Lagers atm
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: Cider, and Mead
What's the best beer you think you've made?: made a reallly good canadian red ale recently, will have to make it again it went to quickly.
Any other fun hobbies?: Wood smoking meat, drinking beer, video games.

[brewd00d]

twin girls hockey team

That's marketing GOLD for a Coors Light add.

[Salterian]

Name: Jake Salter
How long have you been brewing?: 4 months
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: Extract and partial mash for now
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: Belgian Ale
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: none
What's the best beer you think you've made?: ha. The amber kit beer from StL W&B. My creative endevors that followed haven't lived up to that first batch yet.
Any other fun hobbies?: running, writing

[stltaper]

Name: Brian Sax
How long have you been brewing?: n00b here! started 12/26/08....the day after my brother bought me a kit
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: after 3 partials and brewing all grain with ScottT a couple of weekends ago, i'll be moving to all grain ASAP
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: i'll brew whatever's clever. I drink pales when it's warm and creamy stouts when it's cold.
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: none....yet?
What's the best beer you think you've made?: brewed an american/belgian hybrid ale that came out great. my first brew too.
Any other fun hobbies?: music(play in a classic rock/blues band on the weekends. active concert goer and taper. i LOVE music), camping and other outdoor fun times, St. Louis Cardinals baseball

[Matthew/prost]

Name: Matthew/prost
How long have you been brewing?: a few months
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: Extracts
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: Oktoberfest
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: I try to throw milk out before that happens.
What's the best beer you think you've made?: BB Oktoberfest for now
Any other fun hobbies?: computer games, racing, photography

[Mordith]

Name: Rick Haynes
How long have you been brewing?: 10ish years
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: Mostly Partial and extract... switching over now though
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?:IPA
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: That's it... just beer.
What's the best beer you think you've made?: Kolsch!
Any other fun hobbies?: I try to play the tin whistle, play online games (COD WaW now), play with the kiddies (ride bikes, etc.), write, D&D, and lots more.

[mattb]

Name: Matt Belz
How long have you been brewing?: 3 weeks (obviously, I'm an expert)
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: Extract (ducking)
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: I'm a beer man for now.
What's the best beer you think you've made?: My West Coast Pale Ale or my ESB . . . of course, neither one is ready to drink, so they both could be awful, but they're all I got!
Any other fun hobbies?: I have an 8-month old English Mastiff named Lola, so I spend most of my free time following her around with a towel cleaning drool off my furniture; but I also watch a lot of sports and try to stay away from my fiance while she plans our wedding.

I haven't officially joined yet, but once I get a few brews under my belt, I plan to pony up the cash and start coming to meetings. The few homebrewers that I have met around town have been awfully nice folks.

[David]

Name: David Nitzsche
How long have you been brewing?: Since 1981
Extract, partial mash or all grain?: All Grain
What is your favorite style to brew/drink?: All beers German, followed by any and every other style
What other tasty beverages do you ferment?: The occasional sake
What's the best beer you think you've made?: In the late 80s I brewed an Oktoberfest using a liquid culture for the first time. I'm not sure if it was the best but it was so clean and malty compared to anything I brewed previously that I was ecstatic.
Any other fun hobbies?: Drinking beer, reading about beer, talking about beer, with some gardening thrown in

Although I have a long brewing history, I hadn't brewed a decent beer until I joined this club in 86. We are the best brewing resource you can get.