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View Poll Results: What is the coolness factor on a scale of 1 to 10?
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2.53% |
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1.27% |
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1.27% |
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0% |
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1.27% |
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3.80% |
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11.39% |
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29.11% |
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17.72% |
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31.65% |
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02-07-2010, 05:50 PM
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Beer Geek
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Posts: 6,108
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Beer Engine or Jockey Box-like Beer Engine?
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Yeah!!! - I finally made my beer engine today after about 1 year blathering on about it.
Its single cylinder, two-stroke engine or however many strokes you want!!! No oil or batteries required. Just beer!!!
I intend to use it at home as a normal beer engine with a pass-thru shank to the fridge or I can use it like a jockey box at an event. The engine disassembles. One corny keg or two poly-pins fit inside. Now I just need to brew some beer... I only have cider right now.
I used the following; (All from Menards- except for the hand pump) ~ $95 total including the pump cost
- 1 tall narrow kitchen cabinet
- 1 wooden foot stool
- 1 marble tile
- 1 black cube, normally used for wall shelving
- 1 rocket hand pump
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BS Nano-Brewery
Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,
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Last edited by Schlenkerla; 02-07-2010 at 09:14 PM.
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02-07-2010, 06:22 PM
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Beer Geek
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Posts: 6,108
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BTW - For home use, you can also mount a pass thru shank on a fridge and then use a beer nut coupling to attach the beer line.
I might glue some rare earth magnets to back of this cube so it sticks right to the fridge. 
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
BS Nano-Brewery
Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,
|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|
Last edited by Schlenkerla; 02-07-2010 at 06:31 PM.
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02-07-2010, 09:11 PM
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Cranky Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Willamina & Oak Grove, Oregon, USA
Posts: 24,799
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Nice work, I'm repeatedly amazed at the effort people will put into this hobby.
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02-07-2010, 09:17 PM
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Beer Geek
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Posts: 6,108
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
BS Nano-Brewery
Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,
|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|
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02-10-2010, 12:33 AM
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Beer Geek
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Posts: 6,108
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Gee lots a lookers not so many voters!!! 
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
BS Nano-Brewery
Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,
|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|
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02-10-2010, 12:57 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Kirkwood, MO
Posts: 105
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Nice job - that looks really nice.
Is the cabinet insulated, or will the beer be served at room temp?
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02-10-2010, 02:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: St. Clair Shores, MI, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way
Posts: 424
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I gave it a 7. It would have scored higher if there was a chiller involved (even an ice box) and if it had a better base. You could do better than the stool. We'll call that a deduction on the landing.
It's very cool though...I just recieved my faucets and shanks and everything for my bar and after seeing this I may have to add a 'real ale' on tap in the corner!
Nice work! 
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“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” ~George Burns
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02-10-2010, 04:53 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Middleborough, MA
Posts: 1,915
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8
9 if it had hidden casters
10 if you were actually pouring beer from it
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02-10-2010, 11:29 PM
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Beer Geek
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Posts: 6,108
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I will being doing any one of the three; pushing in a corny or a poly pin into the cabinet, or attaching it to my kegerator via a pass thru shank.
The beer storage vessel needs to stay cold, so the co2 stays in solution, using a chiller, with natural carbonation will draw out the CO2 (go into solution) as it warms up. Using a chiller will result in totally flat beer over time.
I plan to use chiller blankets to dry-ice down the beer.
The stool is not a perfect match maybe I'll strip it and try to do a better color match.
__________________
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
BS Nano-Brewery
Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,
|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|
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02-11-2010, 10:52 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: St. Clair Shores, MI, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way
Posts: 424
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Well then...you're working your way to a 10 
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Sand Viking Brewery
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” ~George Burns
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