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It didn't seem useful to just bolt a new top onto the old one - and not that it matters, but the freezer could be returned to original condition with no holes in it...

So 'real ale' is carbonated in the container that it's served in - in my case a corny keg rather than a 'cask'. So you add priming sure at the time you keg it (1/4 cup of corn sugar is perfect for this style in a 5 gallon keg). This means that a little trub will settle out at the bottom of the...

Here's a pic of the 20# nitrogen tank (for stout) behind the 5# CO2 tank (for the cask ale breather and carbonating beers for upstairs):

So the extension of that is not to seal the lid at all to begin with and then there won't even be the krausen dribbling out of the open airlock hole to take care of...

I've taken a quick video of pulling one of my first pints through the hand pump: 6lb of Maris Otter extract with 1/2lb of steeped medium English Crystal; 1oz Challenger for bittering; 1oz First Gold for flavor at 15 mins and 1oz Fuggles for aroma at flame out. This is the real deal -...

Yes - I had a Saison that I fermented upstairs wrapped in a blanket - so I can see the desirability of temperature control. It sounds a fun thing to play with.

It's slightly off topic - but I toured Bass brewery a while ago where the guy from the brewery's take was that as long as the fermentation temperature wasn't too high then there were no off flavors and the consequence was just a longer fermentation. I know that's not the whole picture - some of...

I've started using a new technique to ferment my higher gravity beers. I ferment open (i.e. with the bucket lid on, but not sealed) for the first 36 hours, and then seal the lid for the remainder of the fermentation process. Anyone else doing this? Any thoughts? I used to open ferment all my...

Nothing to stop co2 lines and beer lines being right next to one another. Serving beer on nitro is a relatively new phenomenon - you absolutely can serve stout pushed with co2 rather than a co2/nitrogen mix. You need to use a regular beer faucet though, not a stout tap (which contains a...

Yes - Nitro tank and CO2 tank on the outside. I'll post a pic once I've managed to get hold of the Nitro tank. My upstairs keezer uses a larger freezer, but no collar (CO2 tank sits on the hump) and can only fit 4 kegs (4 on the floor - one for each tap) - so I was very happy that this easily...

Very nearly complete. I still need a nitro cyclinder (the local place was out) and a couple of disconnects. Close up of the panel for the STC-1000 (temperature controller). This is about as primitive as it gets for mounting one of these. The temperature probe goes into the keezer through...

So I had some stain left from a previous project (and plenty of bits of paint) so I decided to stain the keezer (why not?). With the stain on - and the gas manifold and various clips for routing gas lines hammered in place, it's time to attach the collar to the freezer permanently...

I had a brown ale, a british bitter and an ipa all brewed the same way. The ipa had an astringent taste (tanniny, grassy, mouth puckering, 'dry' maybe). The others were fine. Fining the ipa with gelatin in the keg (1 pack gelatin, wait two days) sorted it out and left me a decent beer. I...

I've built the table to set the hand pump in, and set the keezer and the table on a plywood base with castors. This will give me a good idea of where gas bottles will fit etc... and where the gas should enter the keezer and the beer leave...

I cut and screwed the collar together, and fitted the stout tap (drilled a 7/8" hole with the drill press before screwing the four edges of the collar together). The collar was a bit of a pain. I bought a piece of 2" x 8" x 10ft lumber from Home Depot ($8 something). I went through a few...

A new keezer for the basement which will have a nitro tap for serving stout and a hand pump for serving British Bitter. [To augment the 4 regular taps which live upstairs] Having enjoyed making a keezer and having draft beer flowing in our living room I've decided I want to branch out and be...

Looks fabulous- congrats

One of these would do the trick: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00899ALB2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 You also need a potentiometer to give you the control (a few bucks) Make a small plywood box to house it and you're done for well under $30.

I'm fascinated by the idea of removing the need for cooling wort with extract brewing - also in reducing the time to get wort to a boil by making much less of it and adding a large part (or all) of the extract at the end of the boil. If the hops will really do their thing in the absence of the...

The coffin structure is two pieces of oak for the sides joined by 4 pieces of plywood. A further piece of plywood is added to the front to hold the oak board that the taps go through. The two plywood pieces at the back will support the rear cover; the plywood at the front bottom supports the...