Hoakster
Member
Greetings and Happy Holidays my fellow Brewmeisters,
Wanted to give a glance at this year's Christmas gift for a couple of lucky friends hopefully they arent browsing this site or they will know what they are getting.
I brewed up a batch of American Pale Ale in October and split it among 750ml Belgian bottles and 12 oz stubbies (originally held Redhook IPA). Yield was 24 stubbies and 12 Belgians. The Belgians are for gifts. I call my APA Fouled Anchor Pale Ale, and my operation is Broadside Brewing Co. Obviously some Navy roots here.
Picked up some unfinished pine wine boxes from Amazon and stained them (staining experiments resulted in a variety of finishes). Note, the glue used for these boxes during manufacture was allowed to drip and splatter which results in stain not being absorbed into the wood where the glue is. Discovered that by using Polyshades (stain and polyurethane in a single product) the stain acts a little more like paint and sits on top of the wood and glue spots.
The 750ml bottles fit perfect in these boxes with a little bit of faux straw.
Bought some wet-slide decal paper from ebay and printed out my label which allowed me to apply the label to the outside of the box for a relatively professional manufactured look.
Bought some Avery labels, printed front and back and applied labels to the bottles.
Next up: After scouring threads for the proper way to wax seal the bottle (for visual effect only), I bought some of the actual wax from Northern Brewer and tested it on a few empty bottles. It was a bit difficult to get off the bottle, so I gathered up some gold twisty ties and hot-glued one end to the cap and the other end, using a very small dot of glue, to the side of the bottle which will serve as a pull tab to help remove the wax Ill post some pics once complete.
Wanted to give a glance at this year's Christmas gift for a couple of lucky friends hopefully they arent browsing this site or they will know what they are getting.
I brewed up a batch of American Pale Ale in October and split it among 750ml Belgian bottles and 12 oz stubbies (originally held Redhook IPA). Yield was 24 stubbies and 12 Belgians. The Belgians are for gifts. I call my APA Fouled Anchor Pale Ale, and my operation is Broadside Brewing Co. Obviously some Navy roots here.
Picked up some unfinished pine wine boxes from Amazon and stained them (staining experiments resulted in a variety of finishes). Note, the glue used for these boxes during manufacture was allowed to drip and splatter which results in stain not being absorbed into the wood where the glue is. Discovered that by using Polyshades (stain and polyurethane in a single product) the stain acts a little more like paint and sits on top of the wood and glue spots.
The 750ml bottles fit perfect in these boxes with a little bit of faux straw.
Bought some wet-slide decal paper from ebay and printed out my label which allowed me to apply the label to the outside of the box for a relatively professional manufactured look.
Bought some Avery labels, printed front and back and applied labels to the bottles.
Next up: After scouring threads for the proper way to wax seal the bottle (for visual effect only), I bought some of the actual wax from Northern Brewer and tested it on a few empty bottles. It was a bit difficult to get off the bottle, so I gathered up some gold twisty ties and hot-glued one end to the cap and the other end, using a very small dot of glue, to the side of the bottle which will serve as a pull tab to help remove the wax Ill post some pics once complete.