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Also the hopper thing is just making me crazy. I don't know what to make it out of, how I want it to look, what size I want it...How much grain will the 5G water jugs hold?

Soo....I have found a ton of older electric motors in my basement, along with various size "wheels" for attaching belts to. I was hoping to do more of a direct drive, but I really don't know too much about any of this yet. Checking the motors, they seem to be either about 3100RPM or 1200RPM. I'm...

It's in the keg...now to not drink it!

Well, if you're someone who will actually make pasta, buy a cheap one for your grain. A good pasta machine will be something you can pass on to your children. But if it's going into your cupboard to be used a few times a year, get that thing knurled and grind away!

I bet this would be a breeze with a cheap style wing corker like this one you would just have to shove it in as far as you wanted then let go, right? I've never done a belgian in bottles like this, I wonder if it would be good for some barleywine?

LOL that thing on top of my OLD HLT (!) is the top to a tiki torch. They're mounted around my deck and that one just happened to line up perfectly. Sorry for the confusion!

Or someone to just show up and do it for me...I'm not making this damn thing! I wish I could though...I guess it's just right to the dremel for me...

Yeah I'm hoping that one day that will happen for me as well :)

You're talking about painting on the actual sight glass, right? I don't know it might work. I'm talking of painting the metal tube behind it...

I'm not concerned about wasting the 2G of water in the deadspace of the HLT. I'll use it for cleaning. I think I'm going to do this. Now to mark my protector... Beerthirty, if you fill your hlt through your dip tube, wouldn't that eliminate the air pocket? Lil Sparky - In case you didn't...

So quick problem. I've got my dip tube installed on the ball valve that allows me to drain all but a scant 1/2 pint of liquid from my kettle. However, with this setup, my sight glass does not come into play until 19Q (4 3/4G) in. I'm thinking I'll just remove the dip tube and allow it to drain...

Yeah I've seen those, and similar. I've tried those compression fittings with the stem thermometers and was not happy. So now I can thread my threaded thermometer right in. Should have it tomorrow or Monday so I'll update full finished project then.

So I went through all of this trouble, made this beer (which came out pretty good) and decided that due mostly to a lack of bottles and an overabundance of kegs, this would be my first kegged beer. So I read up a bit, set my regulator to about 11 psi, and let er rip. I shook it every day...

Here it is in it's latest brew day. I've built a little stand for the propane tank and clamped the gas manifold in with plastic pipe clamps (the little bit of flexibility from the plastic made things a bit easier). Next up are wind shields for the burners, brewing on a windy day seems to waste...

Well here it is...It's been a bit of time in the planning and actually pulling the trigger. I didn't want my sightglass and thermometer to be in different places on my keggle anymore. See my stand if you want to know why. So I invented this little guy. It replaces those compression fittings you...

I just fabricated mine tonight. Not a dip tube, but another piece of thin tubing I had laying around. My thoughts on the target level markers (zip ties) was to grab a few 1/2" od ORings and have them available for marking targets. Now if I could only find singles in different colors, that...

Hah hah. Love you guys.

Love the ska pattern on the bottom shelf :)

So I think that I need to texture my rollers more...I ran a pound of grain through to finish the bill for my Imperial Brown Ale and I had to apply a bit of pressure to the top of the grain to get it to feed through properly. I'll more than likely be going the drill bit route as well as I've...

there's a few ladder stands floating around out there...