Scott Ickes
Grandmaster Brewer
Hello. My name is Scott Ickes. I live in Vancouver, WA. I'm a member of Cascadia Brewers Alliance homebrew club here in Vancouver. I was out of brewing for about 10 year. I had always been an extract brewer before. I started back into brewing in March of this year, when my nephew moved out this way and saw my brewing equipment in my garage. I made the leap to all grain shortly thereafter. I ended up getting BeerSmith, so that I could make recipe formulation easier and to be able to take detailed notes. I've brewed 15 5 gallon batches since March when I got back into it. Two of my beers just won blue ribbons at the County Fair brewing competition, both scoring in the 40's. I'm quite pleased with the results. My beer is much better now than it ever was before. I attribute a lot of that to BeerSmith. In addition, the club and my LHBS are great resources. I look forward to learning even more on here.