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When I was in central Washington state last summer, a pepsi delivery truck was at a bar that I was shooting pool in. He brought in a TON of corny kegs. I stopped him and asked him if there was pepsi in 'em and he looked at me like I was retarded and said yes. So yeah, I've seen it with my own...

Has anyone tried this? I've dry-hopped before, and I've seen some of the funky contraptions that you can use to force your kegged beer through hops. Hell, I've even thrown whole-leaf hops into a glass of pale ale. What about adding hops in with the mash to get that over-the-top hop flavor? Would...

Me too. I've got a dual CO2 regulator -- one of them has a 2-way splitter/shutoff straight out of the regulator, and one has just one barb fitting w/ shutoff (for force carbing). The 2-way attached to the regulator goes to a 6-way splitter w/ shutoffs and a 2-way splitter w/ shutoffs...

Most gas cylinders have to undergo hydrostatic testing every so often (5 years for CO2, I think). Take it to a fire safety supply shop like SimplexGrinnell and they can hydro-test it for you. I just got a 10# CO2 tank hydrotested and filled @ SimplexGrinnel for $32.

My equipment has produced 11 batches thus far this year -- 5 of 'em mine, two friends brewed 2 each, and two friends brewed one each. Coffee Porter, Pale Ale, Brown Ale, 2x Dunkelweizen, Milk Chocolate Stout, Coffee Stout, Oatmeal Stout, Honey Porter, Summer Saison, Texas Red. We're brewing a...

Ahahaha. Nice photoshop there.

Got 6 faucets mounted.

I've never attempted to do business with this guy, but thanks for the heads up. FYI, for those of you looking for keg stuff... I just did $900 worth of business with KegConnection.com and I've got to say, I don't think I'll be shopping for kegs/keg accessories anywhere else. Those guys rock...

And the circle of life goes on :-D I'm brewing a honey porter tonight, kegging a batch, bottling a batch and racking two batches to secondary this weekend. Good stuff.

IMO, with 8% AA bittering hops, you should either bump up the quantity or shift the times around like the other folks suggested. You might look at doing something like this: 1.5oz @ 60m 1.25oz @ 45m .5oz @ 30m .5oz @ 15m .5oz @ 10m .5oz @ 5m 2oz dry The hop addition @ 45m will...

I'm a fan of nearly everything that I've tried from the Boston Beer Company. I just can't stand the cherry wheat or cranberry lambic. The blackberry wit isn't bad, though.

All that's left is mounting the faucets and caulking around the front of the box! Should get that done tonight.

My phone can only record 60 seconds of video at a time, but I got a couple quick videos of the freezer and some of the components pre-assembly. Video of the freezer: Video of components:

Yeah, I'm just going with paint for now -- I'll make it pretty later. I'm already about $1300-1500 into this project with all of the parts, fittings, tanks, etc. Right now, about all I can really afford to put on the outside is a few cans of Kilz primer and Rustoleum appliance paint.

This is the box that is going to house the faucets; it sits on top of the lid. It's insulated with one of those pads of foam insulation secured with liquid nails. I caulked all of the interior wood-on-wood seams, too. Here are the sloppy cuts on the lid. That black stuff is just metal debris...

This frame is what the keezer sits on. We mounted 6x casters that are rated for 300lbs each. The frame itself is made from 2x6's and 2x4s. Here are a few closeups of the base:

I've thought about doing that; I'm either going to build a box on top of the lid in lieu of a collar, or remove the hinges altogether and build a box around the whole thing.and mount new hinges to that. One other idea I was playing with was routing out some holes so I can use the existing...

Yeah, it's a Kenmore.

I'm weighing my options here; I've got a bit of a hinge problem. The hinge springs are completely broken, so the lid must be held up by hand any time it's opened... and the hinges are really strange. Here are some pictures of how the hinges look after I removed the inside of the lid and the...

Right now, I've got a 4-tap converted refrigerator that I use as my kegerator. I can fit 5 kegs in it, but I only have 4 shanks/faucets on it at the moment. I've got a lot of buddies who brew and I throw a lot of parties, so I figured it was time to upgrade. Plus, my brewing buddies drink so...