Dabbling in Beer

My wife got me the Coopers Brewery Micro-Brew kit for Christmas.  So I have been doing some dabbling into beer making.  Started with a simple Can kit the was supplied with the kit.  Then I made an Extract W/Specialty grains version of a Dunkelweizen. and than another Canned Kit but added some extra flavoring Hops. The first batch came out real well.  The Big battle in making beer in Florida is the Temperature.  Since most ales light to be fermented at 68F it does make it a little more difficult with temp control.  Nothing like a fermentation swamp cooler

(tub with water and a towel wrapped around the fermenter and frozen water bottles to help control the temp).  A little Ghetto, but it works.  I use the same thing when fermenting White Wines.