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Put the corney keg in a bucket. Fill the bucket with ice. You'll pull cold beer no problem. Replace the ice when you want to drink that day or evening. I use re-freezeable freezer blocks, you cold probably use cold packs or frozen water bottles, etc... It has worked fine for me. In the...

Bravo. Looks damn nice.

Refer would probably be fine. Use a dual stage temp controller. For cooling, power the fridge, for heating, power a heat source in the fridge. Say a light bulb or a space heater.

My sig has a link to a thread that has some math that might help you figure out your insulation and cooling needs.

I have the floor model band saw you linked, and I think it provides a great value. I cut metal with it, but also wood on occasion. You can lock it upright and mod up a table on it, so you can do more free hand cuts if you like. I don't have a portaband, but hot damn they are super awesome...

Kirkland Beer....

I like hops and IPA's, but to be honest, I don't care for Ranger at all. Just not the right malt / hop profile my taste buds want I guess. Honestly I'm not the hugest fan of New Belgium's products, so it didn't surprise me that I didn't like it.

Nice, close in dimensions to the eventual build I want to do.. So many things to do.. so little time...

There is a link in my sig to a thread that discusses ferm chambers, R-values, mini-fridges, etc.. It lays out some average numbers for mini fridge outputs. Might have some info for you.

I'm not advocating one way or the other about vodka in the air lock, but I have to ask, do you have children? I've got a 3 year old that is a bit of a terror and loves to go where he shouldn't and loves to make a mess of things.

Don't a lot of people just turn on the burners to bake it on? I'm assuming most people don't have ovens that big, except for maybe powder coaters :) People have used it, to seemingly success. Good to have experience chime in here ....

When I read the first post, I interpreted it as saying that the powder coat-er was concerned that the powder coat, once applied, would not hold up to the heat generated by the burners when the stand is used. Then the OP would be upset if the coat flaked off or chipped, or failed, or whatever...

Sounds like a good deal price wise.

That's basically what my current plan is moving forward, except instead of draining the mash into the bucket, I'll drain the HLT/BK into my old kettle. Then drain the Mash into the HLT/BK. Then dump the hot water from the old kettle into the mash and do a single batch sparge.

I'm gonna try this to start out with I think: At end of mash drain heated sparge water into my old 7.5 gal pot, drain the MLT into the BK, dump the sparge water from the 3rd vessel, into the MLT. Mix it up and let it sit for 10 or so, then drain that into the BK. Too bad though... It brings in...

I'd probably go the fill with water route myself... The fire pit looks nice :)

Where did you find the tank? Looks like a nice setup.

Res, with it hard plumbed, you must be doing CIP? Does that mean your break material and everything is just getting rinsed down and pumped out?

Ed, thats where I'm at now I think. Planning to try and get 1 batch sparge out of the final top off water. Loving this concept brewery though. Looking forward to getting mine going :)

So you are just topping off, that makes sense, I've thought about that too. Dumping grains seems easy enough clean up wise, but the BK will have the coil in it, and I don't want to have to chase loose hops around the coil... Maybe I should try a hop sack kinda thing I see people doing with it...