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Welcome to the Broken Oar Brewery blog.

I am new to this whole "blogging" thing so bear with me.

I am a Home-Brewer trying to develop some good beers. My intent is develop several different beers and to eventually open a brew-pub somewhere in Southern New Jersey. I have already touched base with a local (Atlantic City Area) restaurant and they seem interested in possibly placing one of my offerings on tap as a trial.

To date, I have brewed several different Czech Pilsners and a Schwarzbier for lagers. On the Ale side, I have done a dunkle, a heavy winter warmer, an IPA clone, hefeweizen, honey weizen, porter, and a small IPA called Tongue splitter.

Currently, I have a honey weizen on tap in the keggerator and I have an Extra Special Bitter in secondary fermentation. Looking at going back on the IPA trail next week.

I have traveled to some other brew-pubs in the vicinity (of which there are not many) and all have seem to have a variety of different offerings. However, I find myself not giving the establishment a very good rating if they do not have a good IPA.

My hope is to get a good IPA going, place it on tap at the local restaurant that is willing and see where it goes.

I am currently looking for a bargain conical fermenter so drop me a line if you have/know of one in the NJ/Philadelphia area.