Recent content by Eigenbrau

They still have their vacuum. I experimented with releasing it, but broke a couple in the process and figured it wasn't worth it. They're epoxied into a socket and the socket epoxied to a nut I picked up at Lowe's. There were some concerns initially, but they really don't see enough abuse to...

It's funny, I posted a kegerator in this same thread years ago. I've since upgraded a bit. I made the tap handles myself. I've had a few people comment on how stupid it is to have vacuum tubes as tap handles, but I haven't had an issue yet in the 6 months I've had this built. Perlicks don't...

Awesome, count me in!

Finally finished applying everything to mine. Decided on a Star Trek theme (TNG, mainly).

Gee, I dunno...I GUESS I'll reply :D

I thought I'd throw mine in. I vectorized a picture of me giving a thumbs up and I think I've finally decided on the brewery name listed. I did a test of the label with ink-jet, and as anticipated, it bled through. I'm going to get some printed with laser tomorrow and I'll post the results when...

Sorry for the late reply guys. I'll get some inside pics tomorrow and post them up. As far as the NSN, it's a commercial unit and won't be found in FEDLOG. It was a container for small (30 gallon-ish) oil drums. We picked it up from the recycling center and "recycled" it. Better than the plastic...

My wife keeps raving about this African brew that's popular in Germany. I'd like to brew some up, but I've never tried it and can find only very limited information on it, including recipes. Anyone have any info?

This should make mandatory functions a little bit easier to swallow. Pun intended.

Just finished my first steam distillation of some Cascade whole-leaf hops. Got around 10 mL of oil from 1/3 lb. Will do some work in the future with various plants to see what this thing is capable of.

I'll be utilizing the same system on a 2L level. It should hopefully be enough to get at least a few mL out of a full pound of hop matter. The setup will be nice to have for reagent distillation and purification as well.

No, I was referring to the actual bittering compound. I'll have to find a method to extract the humulone compounds from the leftover mass that doesn't involve liquid CO2 and won't strip the chlorophyll out (I learned that the hard way last night when attempting solvent extraction with ethanol)...

I was under the impression that the isohumulone compounds were extracted via steam distillation. Just out of curiosity, where do they go?

Hmmm, looking at it from that point of view, I might rethink my approach to it then. Controlling (and more importantly, measuring) the amount of alpha/beta acids going into the vials would require some more research and likely some equipment I don't have on hand. I respect your experience and...

You are indeed correct; it would just be strictly aroma. I'm a strong opponent to using extract oils in my brews. Nothing good ever seems to come out of it and I think you lose a lot of the character. From the sounds of it, it looks like it'd be a very limited market selling air fresheners and...