Checked gravity on 2 in primary.
Soaked off labels and washed bottles. Friend dropped of 2 cases of Fat Tire bottles. 4 went straight in the trash, I was not dealing with someones chew spit... rest got a 3 hour soak in hot water and PBW. One of my favorite bottles as far as removing labels. They float off. Also tossed in 6 Lift Bridge(Duluth MN) bottles, I had to use a razor blade to get the labels off those... since I doubt I will buy that beer ever again I won't have to do that again!
More work on the brew stand, built the burner shelves. I know those burners will heat the wood underneath them so I left a gap on purpose to help cool things. Need to bolt the lower one down after I decide if I need to raise it more so I can gravity drain to a bottling bucket. Upper shelf needs to be bolted down and I need 2 L brackets on the uprights for safety.
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Bottled 50 bottles of my Cherry BMC clone. 4.6%abv. Nice and clean, crisp drinker. Can't wait for it to be carbed!
Hey Tactiacl:
I cant help but notice your caps don't look like they are fully crimped..You may want to recheck them...They look like long shoulder bottles but those crimps look like the ones I get when I try to cap shot shouldered bottles. Maybe its all in the camera lens distortion or something but they look incompletely crimped to me.
Hey Tactiacl:
I cant help but notice your caps don't look like they are fully crimped..You may want to recheck them...They look like long shoulder bottles but those crimps look like the ones I get when I try to cap shot shouldered bottles. Maybe its all in the camera lens distortion or something but they look incompletely crimped to me.
Looks to me like the photo is pre-crimp.
Built two awesome homes for my hops.
I always feel good about the things I put together for my brewing until I come back on these forums and get completely shown up....
Looks great!
Built two awesome homes for my hops.
This looks. Really sweet. What kind of wood is that, looks like redwood? And what are the dimensions of the boxing wood on the bottom?
Winemaker brewing 1st batch of beer! Brewers best IPA... here we go with another brewdiction...
I used the new weather shield pressure treaded wood safe for gardens. The dimension of each box base is 10w x 3d x 18 inch H. Boards for base were 1x6s. Each box will be filled with 12 inches of good gardening potting/top soil with 6 inches original clay underneath. The trellis is built with 4x4x12 poles buried 1ft into original clay, holes filled with rock and the will have the additional 12 inches of added soil. The headers are made of 2x8x12 boards that were dog eared on the ends. Beams were bolted in at base in 3 spots per with 3/8th lag bolts.
Still to be done is run horizontal balauster 2x2s across the top for horizontal support and growth for plants as well as fill boxes with dirt, run twine and plant hops and other assorted veggies.
...and it looks like you stained it to get that redwood look - am I right?
I just found this weathershield stuff for sale at the depot and I was just about to build out a few new hops beds so thanks again for the timely post!
...and it looks like you stained it to get that redwood look - am I right?
I just found this weathershield stuff for sale at the depot and I was just about to build out a few new hops beds so thanks again for the timely post!
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