Option #1 wouldn't save you any time as you would spend more time boiling, also you would need to adjust your hop schedule to account for this.
#2 is similar to what some people do, I have read it being called making "concentrated" wort. Honestly, this isn't that much different than what most...
Pickup in Arlington, TX. I have a mini-fridge for a fermentation chamber now. It has a fan and thermostat, uses ice to maintain temp, works great! FREE
As an electrical and computer engineer I am offended! Ha, actually I'm not, sounds like a typical engineer to me. Look forward to seeing your progress. Good luck!
Well if you get a 3 tap tower, you wouldn't have to keep that 4th keg empty. Depending on how you carbonate your beer (prime like bottles, force at a high pressure, or the "let it sit at serving pressure") you wouldn't necessarily always have all 4 kegs ready for tapping. So you would have the...
This is an awesome thread/story/information. Congratulations on every thing so far and I hope you can grow at just the right rate for you. Do you have any pictures of your labels and information on what your doing for them (just some local place?)
Oh yea, a good trick for browsing for CO2 cylinders on CL is "CO2 -paintball" in all of for sale because if you just search for CO2 98% of it will be paintball stuff...