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As some may know I am an actually wheat and barley farmer. I don't want to get into any politics, but one thing that is common is for farmers to incorporate (tax savings, liability, etc). I have grown my farm to be big enough to justify incorporating. The only thing that is preventing me from...

The wife said I could design our new house and somehow a brewery fit perfectly in a corner under the stairs. Have a lot going on so updates may be spread out, but here we are getting ready for the floor. My helper: Concrete walls on three sides...can you say complete brewery washdown. My...

Finally went by the scrap yard today. Came home with 4 cornies and a sweat SS table for $120. Now I just need to get my new house finished so I can get the snow out of my future brew room.

http://conical-fermenter.com/ 7 gallon for $275 14 gallon for $410 All tri-clamp. Seems like a good deal. Anyone ever by from them?

After leaving my local welding supply store discouraged because they wanted $200 for a 10lb CO2 tank I happened to drive by the local Pepsi distributor. On a whim I went in and asked about CO2 tanks. They rent out 20lbs tanks for a $50 deposit with no time limit and fill them for $19. If for...

I introduce my new brew/farm helper. Can't wait to get her in Carhartts and boots.

Been trying for a while and was starting to worry about my boys, but no more worries as SWMBO is finally prego. YIPPY. :rockin::rockin::rockin: Not sure of the sex yet, but as parents-to-be tend to do we have been talking about names. I have suggest Porter or Brewer, but they have been vetoed...

RFD-TV is an agricultural TV channel. Apparently they also do a magazine as I was just contacted and interviewed. They are doing a story on home brewing and getting ready for Oktoberfest parties. The interviewer was very kind and even wants me to proof her story to make sure there aren't any...

The wife and I took this last summer. We had finished our harvest and took a drive to check out a new wind project when we stumbled onto the equipment of one of the big farmers in our area. That is over 1 million dollars in equipment. Holy crap. Three new Case combines with 42 ft headers. That...

The R bar was a college tradition at Montana State along with the Pickle Barrel (an amazing sandwich shop next door). Now they are gone. Hopefully no one was hurt. Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -Bozeman blast destroys buildings, shakes town

Our neighbor stopped by our farm the other day and asked to borrow a grain fan tube (a big piece of pipe with small holes that you screw into a pile of grain and through which you blow air). Apparently he needed to air out some if his malt barley. They had extra barley this year and had to store...

Just got back from a Scotland trip. Here is my haul and amazingly no broken soldiers. The most amazing part of the trip was my visit to the BrewDog brewery. Those guys are awesome. They gave me 18 beers and 6 glasses. Unfortunately I couldn't get it all home, so had to give a bunch away to...

I have been meaning to post this since I took them this summer. There is an old timer in my home town that has a small engine shop. Behind his shop is an amazing hop plant. He said he planted it about 20 years ago.

Happy thanks giving everyone. I am off to run three miles in 25 degree weather. WTF. My wife is trying to make this a tradition. It is a Benefit run every Thanksgiving morning called "Burn the Bird". Well at least I won't feel guilty about that extra glob of butter. Anyone else have crazy...

Because of my previous Engineering career I get random catalogs. A recent one really stood out as a cheap place for brew gear. How about a 24V 38rpm gear motor for $20. 24VDC, 38RPM RIGHT ANGLE GEARMOTOR-MPJA, Inc. Motors DUAL TEMP. PROBE Peltier

Call me overly paranoid, but I had an idea to create a complete closed system brewing system. It isn’t quite done, but this is the first step. Here is how I envision it working. 1. With about 15min left in the boil prop the lid on the edge of the kettle with the cooling coils in the boil...

Not to long ago I posted a few pictures of our barley harvest. Now I thought I would share some pictures of us delivering barley to the malt plant. I asked the plant manager who buys their malt. He said a lot goes to New Belgium...have to load the frig with more Fat Tire. Sucking the barley...

Thought you all might to see beer in its infancy. We just started cutting our barley. It looks good and should easily make malt quality.

Great read on the success of craft beer. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391489,00.html