Recent content by ratfarmer

I don't know if you'd consider it a beer bar but it is a "bier bar" with GREAT food! Feierabend 422 Yale Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 http://www.feierabendseattle.com/bier-menu/

I'm about at the same stage with my first 2 batches of wine. Did you top them off? If yes what did you use?

I'm not familiar with that chest freezer but the one I have has a drain on the bottom that I put my probe wire thru before I added a collar to it. Now that I have a collar on it I just drilled a hole in it and put it thru there and plugged it with plumbers putty.

This is cool information! We should start bottling up our water in 5 gallon bottles and sell it as brewing water!

Thank you for the chance!

Awesome! I want to get more involved locally! What time at Larrys? I'd sure like some welding done in the future and I'd much rather have the money go to a local brewer.

This was my first year growing hops also and I didn't have high expectations at all. But, I am envious that you had 3 more harvests than I did! Hehe The weather here sucked this year for any kind of crops!

I agree with dumping the beer and and adding about a gallon. As far as the noise goes I ended up wearing some ear protection like you'd use if you went shooting. I wouldn't fill the keg up all the way just in case you accidentally dropped your cutting tool in.

Yes exactly!

Most carriers will not ship pressurized kegs. The 8 kegs that I have bought recently had the lids inside of the keg.

Has anyone tried the 1ounce metered caps that they have in some bars? Sounds like it would sure beat doing 16 pumps!

My hops have been in the ground just about 2 weeks now and i'm starting to think that i've got some duds also. I may just dig them up to see whats going on this weekend.......ugh!

The nice thing about the Blichmann burner is that you have the option to do propane or natural gas with the optional fitting.

See if a refrigerator magnet will stick to your keg. A buddy of mine kept telling me that my kegs were aluminum so we made a bet. I grabbed a hard drive magnet off of my kegerator and tossed it onto the side of the keg where it stuck! I won the bet!

My neighbors liked my cedar boxes soo much that I built 5 more of them and made $100! Now that my rhizomes are in the ground I need to come up with some strong, stable, tall and inexpensive uprights for the trellis.