We are homebrewers and home-chefs who are extremely passionate about the craft of brewing beer in our homes. We all live in north east Mississippi and we are proud of this fact. Some of us are born and raised here and some of us are transplants who have fallen in love with living in the south. Coming from the south, we love our southern ways of cooking food. This blog is dedicated platform that will allow us to share our passion of beer and food with you. We want to share brewing techniques, beer styles, sensory and judging techniques, product reviews, good old fashion southern cooking and all things we enjoy related to food and beer. We hope you will follow our page on our wonderful journey. Please be sure to check out our social media pages and contributor biographies below.
Cheers,
The Southern Fried Fermenters
Ron Unz
I am the one transplant in the group. I have lived all over the country, but landed in Starkville to study Physics at Mississippi State. I was not a particularly big fan of beer until my later years of college. It wasn’t until I tried a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout that I fell in love with craft beer. My first batch of homebrew was a pale ale kit that came with a Mr. Beer kit my wife bought me for Christmas. I didn’t know crap about beer then, but I thought it turned out pretty good. It tasted a lot like green apples (I would eventually learn this wasn’t appropriate, haha), but my friends and I had no problem drinking it. I didn’t take homebrewing more serious until my first year of graduate school. My passion for beer and brewing has grown since then. I started with extract brewing and worked my way up to all-grain. It was in 2010 when Jeremy Wickham, Richard Bryant, and a few fellow brewers started our Golden Triangle Brewers homebrew club. Since then my life has pretty much revolved around my amazing circle of brewing friends and craft beer. I am a certified BJCP beer judge and a certified beer server. My favorite beer style comes and goes like the wind. One second I want to brew crazy IPAs and the next minute I’m on a kick for brewing lighter, easier to drink, beers. As of right now, my favorite style of beer is Berliner Weisse. There is nothing better on a hot, humid, southern day than a super light, tart, and crisp beer. However, this has been a difficult beer style for me to pull off until recently. Sharing my passion and knowledge with others has something that has brought me great joy and is the primary reason why I wanted to start this blog with my cohorts. I try not to take brewing too seriously. I try to keep it fun. Life is short, so enjoy some homebrew. I hope you will decide to follow our blog.
Cheers!
Ron’s Social Media
Jeremy (Wick) Wickham
In the summer of 2009, I was introduced to home brewing by my brother-in-law, Nathan, in Kansas City, MO. He had discovered a Fat Tire clone recipe online, so we bought the ingredients from his local home brew shop. Brewed in his kitchen, and he brought the bottled beer down with him in November, and from then on out, I never looked back. Back in Mississippi, I brewed my first batch in January 2010 where I tried to recreate that beer I brewed with my brother-in-law. Neither beer did not turn out like a Fat Tire whatsoever, but it still was a mighty fine beer. I got a little more equipment and began brewing all grain batches. As all home brewing adventures have gone, I have brewed some really good beers and some really bad beers. Sometimes I’m an outside the box brewer sometimes I just want a classic style. Dark beers my forte is, if you ask a home brewer in the state of Mississippi about my beers most of them would say try his imperial stout. That’s about it in short, I’m an IT guy, beer geek, and Mississippi State football fanatic.
Cheers and Hail State!
Wick’s Social Media
Richard Bryant
Ron has asked me like four times for a small bio for this page, but I haven’t done it! So, Ron is going to write one for me. I like to brew and drink beer. I particularly enjoy brewing and drinking brown mild ales from England.
Alright.