March 9, 2007

Getting started

First off, this is largely here for personal tracking and recording .  Unless you are also just learning the ropes of the brewing profession in ATITD, you’re not likely to find much interesting here.  Even if you are, this is going to be mostly experimentation notes and things.  If I have very successful recipies, I’ll probably put them on my user page in the wiki.

Okay, disclaimers out of the way. 

I don’t have the beermaking skill yet, as I’m not high enough level.  I’m working right now on growing barley and malting/roasting it.  I figure having a good supply stored up will help with all the mistakes I’m going to be making.

I haven’t come across any of the Toad Skin mushrooms that are needed to make weed killer, so I am using the method described in the wiki guide to grow without it.  The results aren’t great, progress is slow at 2-4 barley per planting.  Some guildmates are going to see if they can find me a place where I can find some of the mushrooms.  If the barley grows to harvest, it’ll be 10 per planting.

Need to figure out what the pattern is with the grain ovens.  Otherwise I’ll end up with far too much burnt and light malt, and not enough of the dark.  Also, find a way to get more wood faster, those ovens go through it like nothing.