Recent content by ImaBrewinfool

So one question, did you leave the rollers with the flat surfaces, or was that prep for lathing. I would think the more flat surfaces the better the crush. Do you know what your roller gap is, if its round? Great idea.

Ok, Ima quote myself. Heres some earlier pics of my 'Keezer'. Best I could find. It now has an oak front where the fabric is, and a 3 sided footrest not seen. Ive always called it the BeerWench. " Ya wanna beer? Go talk to the BeerWench."

Putting wood around the cooler is possible on the rear, but the other sides are where your condenser is for cooling. My collar extends out the front 16", and the 'bar' is in the rear, with wood decoration, with the footrail covering 3 sides (not front ).Dont know your location or how much you...

Well lets look and see how this will likely be used. WHen you first come up with the great creation it is so much fun to show your friends, but when practicality kicks in, My bet is that it will sit out 90% of the time being poured from. SO design for the most use there, and live with its...

A homebrew store here sold pasta mills as pasta mills/grain grinders. Didnt go over too well, but got some people making noodles. Which is great also. Now you have to figure out which beers go best with pasta. My suggestion: get her interested in making pasta. Fresh pasta is as enjoyable as...

Seen a few homemade concrete mills and the results have been fine. One point not clearly mentioned is the drive rod you put through should have some pins drilled or welded on leftover hardware or such to keep your rod from spinning loosely within the concrete. Also a slip clutch for the drive -...

The dusty looking clumps of bubbles have the appearance of Brettanomyces. I have seen bubbles 6" around in some of my Lambics after about 6 months or so. If so, the characteristic leather and horse blanket aromas wont be far behind if so.

Whens the last time you cleaned beer lines. Sounds like a beer line issue to me. First beer tastes bad, then you get the line cleared and new beer from keg. Ive seen that on my system when Im bad on line cleaning.

Good idea. One reason you dont have such a bad pour is the height from the bottom of the keg to the top of the faucet is minimizing height increase by design. When designing for proper pouring, the largest usable tubing diameter works best for reducing turbulence and pressure loss, and small...

Footcrank. GREAT IDEA. Take an old bicycle, mount the mill at the rear wheel, hook up the chain to the roller, and away you go! Totally GREEN! BTW: Best spelling of FZ lyrics I have see to date! Dude, it rocks!:ban::mug:

Good point, I am sure we all could use to burn off some beer calories! I sure could, anyways.

Catt22, I agree with you. It is difficult to go too slow, especially with the easily available parts out there. Trying to get a 15" pulley ( or larger ) and the room for it is difficult. But it is easier to go too fast. The real proof is in the brewhouse efficiency and astringency of the final...

Nice work, you know you are swimming upstream by actually using a refrigerator! Heheh.

Nice job. Have you filled it with 22 oz bottles yet? Still standing? I dont use 12s too much any more. If I'm going through the effort I want to minimize my work.

I left some comments on this thread, 500 rpm is way too fast. Buy a more powerful drill. Please read https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/mill-speed-155740/ for more info. ImaBrewinfool