Recent content by DirtBagRob

Really great ideas so far!! Keep em' coming! And I'm sort of embarrassed that tally350z came up with the name "the pipeline" before I did..... I'm a pipeline operations foreman. :o I make pretty good beer I think and I enjoy and understand the science of it, but don't ask my to name one of my...

I'm not sure if this is the best area of the forum to post this..... I need help naming a bar. Its not mine, my girlfriend is going to be the GM and its her bosses and he wanted a bunch of name ideas from her by next week. A little background... its in Casper, Wyoming in an industrial part of...

+5 gal Belgian Tripel =14480

Due to a really bad brew day, I decided to leave my beer in primary for a while, I was thinking like 12 weeks. I pushed it to the back of the closet and forgot about it for about 11 months (I had 10 fermenters at the time, all of which were always full). It wasn't like a barley wine or a huge...

+5 gal American Pale Ale = 13417.5

Well, I finally brewed this weekend and it turns out my thermometer design isn't all that great. When I doughed in, the temp on my mounted thermometer and my digital thermometer were exactly the same. As the mash went on, the temp on the mounted dial thermo slowly dropped about 20 degrees...

Odell Brewing's "The Meddler" is probably the first beer I've ever had I couldn't choke down. I ended up dumping it after two days of trying to drink it. It sucks too, because Odell is one of my favorite breweries and makes 2 beers that are in my top 10 (myrcenary and 90 shilling). I read the...

I chewed on it for a while and that's what I decided to do. It seemed to be fermenting out ok, albeit a little slow. This morning it looks like its pretty much complete, I'll cold crash tonight and I'm considering stepping it up in size a little on Wednesday. I'd had a few beers already when...

I made a starter last night so I could brew today and the yeast would be good to go by tonight when it was time to pitch. There was not fermentation at all in the starter when I got up this morning (about 14 hours after I made it). I decided to check the gravity to see if maybe it had fermented...

I always preferred to dry hop in my 48* kegerator (when I had it) rather than my 68* fermentation area. I thought the hop aroma was a lot more crisp and cleaner but the hops stayed in the keg till the keg was kicked, which was usually longer than they stayed in secondary (usually a week, maybe...

Ya, that is correct, the valve is perpendicular to the cooler. I have a 3/8" pvc manifold and it works ok. I had to play with the stack up between the washers, orings, nuts, and nipple to make it work, and I had to use a 3/4" pvc coupler inside of my cooler as a spacing sleeve between the...

Here's what I did: I used a square coleman cooler but the principle will work on any cooler with a 1/2" female npt ball valve. Where the ball valve attaches to the nipple going through the cooler wall, remove the ball valve. Install a 1/2" female tee in its place with one tee opening heading...

When I had my 4 tap kegerator (1 nitro) I tried every beer I put on nitro layered with the other three I had on tap. Over the course of trying probably 30+ combos, I found that about 20% were awesome, 10% were undrinkable (but I still drank them, I don't waste beer), and 70% were pretty good to...

100% agreed! Since I moved to Wyoming last June, at least 1 of every 4 beers I've had has been a Paco's. I thought I'd get sick of it by now, but I actually enjoy it more each time I have one. And since Dales PA and Pako's come in cans on six pack holders, they ride along next to the tube...

Ya, I drink ALOT of high calorie beer and whiskey and I keep under about 12% body fat by this. I only eat lean meat and vegetables Sunday through Friday lunch time. I do a HIIT weight lifting workout for about 90 min 3 times per week. With the diet and exercise, I can drink as much as I want...