Recent content by eboeing

Wow, cool! I didn't expect anybody to actually try brewing this; I just put it up here to, you know, be more involved with the community. As to original gravity: You're right; 1.045 is what it should be. As you might have been able to tell, I wasn't too precise with the information at the...

Relative newbiew in the formus here. Yesterday, I posted my first recipe, which is basically my house beer. What I wanted to acheive when I first started making that recipe was a toasty/nutty/almost burnt quality in its maltiness, and I do that with a pound and a half or so of Victory...

This is the base recipe for my house beer. I designed it to be what I'm always in the mood to drink. Toasty, nutty, almost burnt malt flavors, dark red color, clean yeast variety, and well-hopped with an emphasis on citrus and pine. Most batches I change up some way; I alter the hops or add...

OK, now we're getting closer. I'll make the cold box out of spray foam insulator, in a cylinder just big enough to hold a corny keg, beer lines, and the guts from a fridge I can get nearly free off craigslist. CO2 tank kept externally. Base will be 2" styrofoam, and lid (with tap sticking...

The jockey boxes I've seen are made of cooler chests, not the right size to hold a corny keg upright. Or are there any that size, too?

The idea is to get away from having to wash bottles. And I hate storing my beer in plastic.

What's your opinion of the 5L mini kegs?

I'm narrowing in on this "chill on demand" idea as having a lot of potential. You don't need the whole tower like in the picture above; you'd just need the dispensing unit that the water jug ordinarily plugs into. They sell those new for like $30. I get the problem of carbonating a warm...

This kind of what what I originally had in mind: wrap the keg in copper wire, keep it cold with refrigerator parts, and then insulate the whole thing. How much do those things go for?

Oh, man how cool would THAT be? Like a water cooler, but dispensing beer? Hang on, let me figure out your math; you may be on to something here. (Oh and on further investigation, it seems that Coleman Power Chiller only has an interior height of 17", so that's out. :()

OK, I've combed through the archives and found a couple of interesting things: Back in 2008, "TheMiller" wanted to do something similar to what I have in mind, converting a whiskey barrel into a fridge. I'm not sure if he got anywhere with it, but he did post a link to this cool thing, but...

Haha, I'm thinking the fire escape/landing is exactly the right place for the thing I have in mind!

Lol. I'm VERY surprised none of the enterprising people here haven't looked into this one before. I considered 2.5 gallon kegs (and even bought the "party pig"-- hated it), but even our fridge is tiny & I wound up having not enough room for food! I'd say shortyjacobs was thinking along my...

Good point about the CO2; I've seen kegerators where the CO2 tank is kept externally, & I was thinking about doing something similar. (Unless of course, that's an absolutely terrible idea.)

Hi, Everybody: I just stumbled on HomeBrewTalk.com while doing a few Google searches, and I'm really glad I did; you guys seem to have the most active home brewing forum around. This question has probably been asked before, so please feel free to direct me to appropriate threads. I live...