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Been a long time.... My old Bev-Air BM23 kegerator gave up the ghost....bad compressor. Since the economic slowdown, I haven't been brewing much. We were pretty much using the ole girl to chill cans of brew and soda for parties. So, I'm scrapping her out. Thought I'd come on here and...

Nope, it's not about somebody's recently passed away grandma in a casket..... it's about the "bag in a box" soda syrups. Today I was at Sam's Club and noticed they had the "bag in the box" soda syrups for soda fountains for sale. It got me thinkin'.... "I bet I could dump one of these into a...

I've been having some problems with my Foodsaver. Sometimes, the bags do not seal completely, and they lose their vacuum, sometimes they won't vacuum down at all. I was going through some stuff in the freezer, found another bag of meat with no vacuum. I started thinking.... in my infinate...

Ok, maybe some of you've seen this before. This is the first time I've seen it and this is some incredable stuff. If you've ever seen flying squirrels before, you'll understand the title of the post. http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262 Wonder who was the first one to try...

I have finished replacing the condenser coil and capillary tube and temp control in my old Bev-Aire BM-23-C kegerator. Runs good, gets nice and cold. Planned on using this unit for fermenting and possible serving on the back patio when we have parties Made a deal with the wife that I'd get...

Well, this afternoon, I called about my drug test that I took for my upcoming new job. Seems that the turkey day holidays have slowed it down, but they are expecting the results tomorrow. I've pretty much gotten the job, based on the results of my pee test,which should be fine, didn't drink...

This weekend, I drank 2 Dead Guys, boiled a cup of wort, cooled and added it to the bottles. Let them ferment out, boiled and cooled 2 cups of wort, put into my third-world starter bottles. Poured the fermented yeast, plus the dregs from 2 more Dead Guys into them, and put airlocks on them...

Ok, after I lost my job last month, I celebrated my new found unemployment by drinking the bottle of Rogue Imperial IPA that I had planned on trying to cultivate pacman from...... So, anyway, at this present time I'm still unemployed, but will chances look pretty good that I will land a job...

Since I'm presently unemployed, I thought I'd do a little work on my website. It's not much right now, just an age verification page, but it's got my logo and I just finished making the tiki god graphics a little bit ago. http://www.howlinowl.com The logo is 2-color, so I was thinkin'...

So, after 6 years of working for the same company, said company was sold 3 months ago. Anyway, last Thursday (10/24) the new owners decided there wasn't enough business and let me and another employee go. I celebrated by drinking my bottle of Rogue IIPA Thursday night. Anyways, a buddy of...

This morning, after church, the wife, daughter and I went to Davy Jones' Locker Room here in Port St. Lucie, FL. http://www.davyjoneslockerroom.com/ On their list of draught beers, they had the usual suspects, plus one called "Davy Jones' Signature Grog". I asked the waitress what it was...

So, I'm lookin' 'round the house for things to make into tap handles with the little do-hickey you can screw into things and make 'em into tap handles. I spy this little laughing buddha figure that I picked up at the dolla' store a couple years back. Thinkin'...."hmmmmm....Howlinowl Third Word...

I bought myself a present today... A 750 ML bottle of Rogue Imperial IPA in the cool black ceramic flip-top bottle. Gotta plan a saturday sometime to spend some quality time with my new friend. Anyways... it says that it's fermented with "top fermenting pacman yeast"... should I be able to...

I have a Fujitsu C340 laptop. 233 PII. The battery had died a long time ago, and there are no replacements. I've been using this thing in the kitchen with a wireless card for quite a while. I should toss it and buy a new one. Some weeks ago, I noticed that the A/C inverter changed the...

Was checking out brewpubs in my old homestate of Kansas. Found this site for Hank Is Wiser. http://www.hankiswiserbrewery.com/ Man, I'm wantin' to quit my job, move the hell out of Florida to a small town and start a brewery like ole Hank has. Allan

Tomorrow I'll be kegging my second batch of brown ale. Gonna have two 5 gallon cornys with about 4 gallons each in 'em. I've seen at some of the restaurants we service that they will daisy-chain two kegs on each serving line. Basically the CO2 goes into the first keg, forcing the beer from...

Well, got my 2nd all grain batch in the kettle boiling. Everything went well until it was time to sparge. No matter what I tried, the sparge stayed stuck. I even removed the hose from my pump and shot some compressed nitrogen up the hose. Got big bubble through the mash, but no flow back. I...

Last night, I made my starter in anticipation of brewing on Sunday. So, today it got a nice foam on top and yeast layer on the bottom. Wouldn't you know it, my wife informs me now that she has plans for me on Sunday and I won't be able to brew. Unfortunatly, I have to do yard work Saturday...

Was getting ready to order some more supplies and take another crack at the Brown Ale I screwed up last time. Last time, I ordered from Hearts Homebrew in Orlando, mostly 'cause they are in state. This time, I was going to order from More Beer, 'cause they gots the grommet I need for my second...

Was thinking today about how many corneys I should have on hand.... I've got a True kegerator with 2 single tap towers. At this moment I only have 3 corneys. I figure that I should have about 5 corneys for the 2 towers. Reasoning being that I am going to make 10 gallon batches....2 kegs per...