oh hay thanks for the welcomes, everyone! I have been brewing since high school (am now 30ish...) and I tend to favor the darker brews eg stout, porter, as well as heavily-hopped Pale Ales that bash you over the head with hops. These styles are a bit more forgiving of technique and facilities available to the casual home brewer compared with more delicate styles eg. pilsner, dark lagers/dunkle that require lower temperature fermentation and more expensive ingredients to achieve decent results. Getting into cold brewing has been not that much of leap from home brewing in terms of the much-longer preparation time required (compared to other coffee styles), and the capacity for experimentation in technique seem to be parallel eg. for home brewing using different amounts and types of hops and malts is similar to using different blends of beans and ratios of water for cold brewing, as well as fiddling with the brewing time. Also, I tend to cold brew coffee in largish volumes, so the skills learned from bottling beer have come in handy...
