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It looks like a window well. It's used around basement windows that are below grade.

Many of the flexible sink & toilet water supply lines carried by Home Depot use the plastic braid instead of stainless steel. If you have a store nearby you could get one without paying the shipping charge.

Just call your doctor's office and tell them what you are doing. Most will not mind writing a prescription, especially if they like craft brews :). Worst case buy the fittings and make an adapter to go to a welding style oxygen cylinder. I hate to see good regulators go to waste.

Great pictures. I still can not wait to hear how opening day goes.

I don't know what a European plastic crate is but I use the plastic dish racks used in commercial kitchens to run glasses through a commercial dish washer.

When I carbonated in the bottle I would do at least one plastic PET bottle so you can feel when the bottle gets rock hard. I used the 1 liter amber bottles from Mr. Beer. They are reuseable and large enough to really cut down on the bottling chore. I have also seen many people use soda...

I always inert when I transfer beer whether it is going into a secondary or into a keg. It is probably not needed if you plan on drinking your beer within 6 months but it can not hurt. I have experimented with inerting bottles prior to filling or not and I have not been able to notice a...

You seem to be getting the growing under control. What are your plans for harvesting and pelletizing/packaging? I just grow a few bines at home and seen the large scale mechanized harvesting, picking and sorting up in the NorthWet. I am curious how harvesting is handled on a smaller...

I use a Food Saver to vacuum pack my hops wich helps cut down on the space required for storage but early on I made the mistake of just letting the machine do it's thing. The packs vacuum down into odd shapes that waste a lot of space. Now I press the bag flat as the vacuum is being drawn and...

My sanitizing bucket always has Star San in it. I make a fresh batch before bottling or brewing and keep what's left over in the bucket just in case. Each brew day I dump out the bucket, wash and make up a new batch of sanitizer. I don't think my bucket has been dry in 3 months and it shows...

I have reasonable success propogating from cuttings. I take a cutting about 6-10" long and on the cut end I make scratches in the stem for about the first 1/2" and then promptly dip the scratched end in rooting hormone. I then plant it in moist potting soil. Some varieties do better than...

I am not a follower of the "cut it down" to harvest method. Here in NC my hops kept producing and producing and never really stopped until we started getting frost at night. If I had cut the bine down when the first crop was ready I would have lost 1/2 my production. I used 16ft long 6x6...

Your CO2 bottle will drop considerably in pressure if you put it in your keggerator. Temperature really affects CO2 which is why the cylinders are filled by weight. When filled and really cold (-50f) they may read only read 100 psi. At room temp they are 700-800 psi and if you leave it...

Another word of caution about bottles from a bar. Look inside and toss the ones with cigarette butts inside.

Does anyone know how many btu is generated when fermenting an average gravity ale? I know there are many variables but I'm looking for a general number. How much heat needs to be removed from the fermentor during active fermentation to hold a stable temperature?

So, I can use my computer for more than playing solitair. Do you have an alarm rigged to alert you to an out of range (temperature) condition?

Sorry, all of the hops have found a new home. Sunday 11/15 9:55pm I have done some gardening today and I have two bags of Cascade rhizomes that need a new home ASAP. They will go out in tomorrow's (Monday 11/16) mail. These bines came from a cutting I started this spring. It grew in a...

Here is a new one. Where is she? It is not nearly as exotic as the previous locations and the design on the back wall provides another clue.

I think you have two choices. You either put in a big block with a blower sticking through the hood, tub out the rear end and keep her barely street legal or you put in a thump'n sound system, barbeque grill and a four tap keg system in back.

I was surprised to learn that this bar was once on Creek Street until a high tide coincided with floodwaters coming down the creek...