Howdy all,

Im glad to see theres a brew club around that isnt dead set on over hopping everything (not that its a bad thing, just has its time and place). Either case I thought I'd make an introduction on here now that Ive gotten a chance to brew a few batches and reorient my fermenting to the So Cal experience... and weather!

In brief the name is Joshua Kunkle and though I grew up in Murrieta, I moved away for the past 8 or so years for schooling, of which 6 of those years where in San Francisco, which if it had nothing else to offer had awesome weather for brewing. Been brewing partial grain since 2007 and with the extra space I have now the hope is to transition into all grain, hopefully Ill learn a trick or two here. In the meantime the trick is to remember to make it to any and all of the meetings and I look forward to eventually getting to meet with as many of you as I can.

Until then and for conversations sake, Im currently brewing a gravity monster of a beer (OG 1.100)... a recipe I loving call a honey orange pale ale, or HOPA for short using a trappist yeast. So far the process has been going beautiful (FG 1.010) and I got the sucker carbonating right now, cant wait to sip on the finished product which despite the alki content has an awesome flavor profile! If I manage to stash any away Ill share at the next meeting to anyone interested, figure it would be a nice "how do ya do" moment.

Look forward to meeting and greeting at the next meeting, take care and adios till then!