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I've been using an old fridge I rigged up with two taps as my kegerator for some time now and after lagerring a few batches in my cold garage this winter I finally decided to setup something for good temp control on my fermentations. I've been putting it off because I wanted to make the best out...

good stuff there. I'll add one thing, take it as grain of salt though, I'm no pro. I had a few batches when I started doing all grain & batch sparging that I too had horrible efficiency (50% - 60%) and couldn't figure it out quite right. Then I tried doing two sparges and saw a great...

just curious how this is going and what temps you've been able to hold?

Just curious, does the inside diameter of the copper pipe between each regulator matter? I have two dual guage regulators and I want to combine them, but I'm not sure what I need to do that.

Ok, well I've started my build. So far I've got the base and the top put together. I'm going to work on the side supports and doors tonight or tomorrow. I'm making it a mobile unit by building the base with a floor that is long enough for the chamber, the fridge, & CO2 tank. All of that is on...

I've got 3 different hills planted. 2 cascade and 1 fuggles, this will be the 3rd year for them and the fuggles have yet to produce a hop cone. They didn't come up at all the first year, last year they had about a foot of growth. This year they've already grown about 2 feet. The cascade on the...

yeah, I was wondering the same. why are "crowns" so special?

brewed it and it is marvelous. Got about a 1/4 keg of it left now and it's about the best it's tasted, it's been in the kegerator for about 2 months now.

any suggestions on how to make it a dual purpose serving & fermenting setup? I was thinking just putting a plywood wall as a divider with a couple of holes and fans setup to a thermostat to kick on and blow cold air into the fermenting chamber.

Great work, I was looking for something really close to this. Just wondered if you've had any issues with this since last posting, I'm in dire need of something like this and was thinking of doing a combo serving/fermenting chamber along these lines.

I've dry hopped two beers now and I prefer to do it in the keg. Take a smallish grain bag and boil it with a stainless steel wing nut, add the hops, tie it up and drop it in the keg before you rack.

i have a friend that decided he was going to start making wine. His 2nd batch he was siphoning from primary to secondary in his bathtub. Something went awry and ended up dumping half the batch into the tub, he depressed the stopper and just siphoned it back into the carboy. Soap scum, dog hair...

heh, I have that same Chicago Electric drill. Bought it two weeks ago at Harbor Freight for $15. Pretty sure I burnt it up last night running 14 pounds of grain through my Corona. Never seen a drill smoke like that.

I got blind sided on punt return team one time in high school, didn't knock me out but I heard bells and saw stars for a few seconds couldn't really determine what side of the field was our sideline. Missed one series and back at it, probably not the smartest thing but who's very smart in high...

Bells makes a barleywine that was really good, can't remember the name right off hand.

and what are the various temps that this is achieving?

Very interested in seeing some pics of this, I'm wanting to do basically the same thing and my lack of knowledge on the capacity of mini fridges and such has kept me from it thus far. I currently have an extra fridge/freezer combo that I've added taps to, a stock mini fridge, and a deep freezer...

do the pecans really come through in this? I'm assuming you crushed/chopped those up and threw them into the mash?

saw this on shirt.woot.com when it was debuted and forgot to buy it. No idea a HBT member did this, pretty cool.

I'm looking for ideas and just wondering, why not put some kind of insulation on the back of the collar to make it more efficient?