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It's Damp Rid. The inside of the keezer tends to collect a lot of condensation.

A while back, a friend asked me about making a beer using traditional root beer spices. I picked out a recipe to base my beer recipe on, but I'm trying to figure out how to cut down on the spicing so it doesn't end up becoming so overpowering as to make the beer taste like crap. I'm thinking...

Do you have a good source for some of these ingredients? It's looking a bit hard to find Sarsparilla Root, Sassafras root bark, cherry bark, licorice root. I'm seeing a little bit on amazon, but it's pretty sparse on information on what is actually being sold.

I live near Midwest, so I don't order, I always just pickup onsite so I have no experience with ordering anything online from them, but I can tell you that in person, the place can be very hit or miss depending on the day you go in. I'd say it's because they recently moved locations and they're...

I used a few guinness bottles when I used to bottle, both the draught and the stout bottles. I never noticed any problem with carbonation, but I did notice that if I was going to have any bottles break while capping, it was the guinness bottles. I think I broke one non-guinness bottle, and...

I normally age my beer between 4 and 8 weeks before drinking it (although, there are exceptions.) I normally finish off a batch in less than 6 months though. This is by far the longest any of my beer has ever lasted. This really is a conundrum for me. I kind of want to share the beer and...

I must confess that I had kind of stopped drinking my own homebrew for a while. I had gotten tired of bottling, so I got into kegging a little over a year ago. It started out good and all, but all I had was picnic taps, and the inside of my chest freezer would constantly get grody pretty...

Not really, there isn't much line in the coffin itself to begin with, most of it is still in the freezer. The coffin is insulated and there are 4, 4-inch holes drilled through the top, into the freezer from the coffin.

I haven't weighed the top fully assembled, but I'm guessing it's in excess of 100lbs at this point. I have really narrow doorways in my house, and was doing most of the woodworking at my in-laws' house (my father-in-law has a lot of wood working tools, I really don't) so I built the counter and...

I pulled apart the lid of the freezer, bolted the top onto the metal part of the lid and then reassembled the lid. I drilled four fairly large holes through the the whole top and lid for the beer lines and a fifth small hole for the drain. It's draining to a small bucket that is stored in the...

I don't even have the wood working or tile cutting equipment myself, I begged, borrowed or stole the actual tools needed, mostly from my father-in-law and one friend with access to a tile saw. I did end up buying some floats and a couple of saw blades (concrete board chews up saw blades...

The color in the pictures isn't that great. The carpet is red, orange and black shag. The most accurate picture for the wood color is probably the second picture.

OK, it's been a little over a year since I actually started this thread, but I've finally got my keezer more or less done. These aren't the best pictures in the world, but I'm kind of excited about the fact that it's finally done, so these will have to do for now. I'll try to take some better...

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Keezer day is my own personal holiday today. Over the last few weeks (perhaps months even) I have been slowly collecting the bits and pieces to start kegging. I started out with the dual kegging setup from Midwest. They even give you a full tank if you pick it up locally. I've then...