The beginning

My name is David Bell. For my 29th birthday I asked for money to purchase equipment to try brewing my own beer. The idea appealed having recently sampled a number of successful home brews a friend had produced. (Check out Phil's blog for details of his beers.) Trying his beers has also started to get me into drinking real ales, rather than supping the mass produced cheap lagers I had grown up old with, so the idea of producing my own real ales was now even more attractive.

So read on to find out how I get on...