About HopWild

Welcome to Hopwild – A blog that helps beer enthusiasts learn about beer and brewing

My name is Jimmy and I’m a home brewer and all-around beer geek.  I’m about to turn 30 and I live in North Carolina, which is quickly becoming a hotbed of brewing activity.  I currently work full time for a major technology company – but spend the remaining waking hours on subjects like brewing, travel and a few of my favorite TV shows.

Brewing

On a whim in 2005, my girlfriend and I bought our first home brewing kit.  It was a lazy Saturday and we were looking for something to do.  She brought up the idea that we should have a go at making our own beer.

A trip to the home brew store – and $85 later- we were in business.

We brewed pretty casually  at first until I started to get more serious about it – around the end of 2006.  Eventually brewing took over as my primary hobby.

Hopwild the Blog

From that first batch, I began reading various Internet websites and forums on brewing.  I also picked up a shelf full of books and magazines.  Making the leap from reading about brewing to trying my hand at writing about it was sort of the next logical step.  And so – this site was created.

At first – much like brewing – it was a casual project.  But at he end of 2008 I decided to put a more concerted effort into updating it regularly and – perhaps more importantly – improving the quality of the writing.

Here you can read about a variety of topics:

• mainly Home Brewing Tips and Tricks
• some Home Brewing How-To’s
• and Experiments
• also some Beer Recipes
• the occasional Musings on Beer
• and Book Reviews

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I hope you find your experience here both educational and enjoyable.