doodlebug
Well-Known Member
Greetings everyone, have been absolutely *devouring* all of the excellent info on here for quite some time, what a fantastic resource and great community!
After spending too many years busting my ass on other projects (home remodel, working too many hours) I'm finally *making* time for one of my true passions. My history home brewing is limited but my knowledge of the process is pretty good. I spent some time as an assistant brewer for a craft brewer in Ann Arbor, and have worked in 3 other microbreweries. I've got a nut brown in secondary and tomorrow night will have OhioBrewtus' Edmund Fitz recipe in primary.
Currently brewing on a coleman cooler mash tun, turkey fryer setup but have rapidly begun to accrue the makings of a pretty nice single tier setup - got my first 1/2 barrel last night and am posting this in between cutoff blades wearing out on the top of it with my Dremel. Found a March 809 on CL, 4 cornies in the mail from Nicki Turner - there was a thread in the classifieds on here that put me up on that. I found that my LHBS (a great one - Siciliano's in Grand Rapids) has reconditioned cornies for $25 shortly after I paid for the shipping from Nicki but whatever.
So a lot of brewing projects going on, converting a chest freezer into a ... keezer, is that what we're calling them? I also want to use that for doing some lagers, which I'm pretty excited about. Also in the process of refinishing the basement to a proper cave suited to dispensing and consuming these beverages. Therefore you'll be seeing a lot of me, sending out questions into the void and hoping for your informative replies. I expect a fair amount of ridicule and ribbing as well, if I have you all pegged right. :cross:
OK, back to the Dremel. Slowly but surely, right?
After spending too many years busting my ass on other projects (home remodel, working too many hours) I'm finally *making* time for one of my true passions. My history home brewing is limited but my knowledge of the process is pretty good. I spent some time as an assistant brewer for a craft brewer in Ann Arbor, and have worked in 3 other microbreweries. I've got a nut brown in secondary and tomorrow night will have OhioBrewtus' Edmund Fitz recipe in primary.
Currently brewing on a coleman cooler mash tun, turkey fryer setup but have rapidly begun to accrue the makings of a pretty nice single tier setup - got my first 1/2 barrel last night and am posting this in between cutoff blades wearing out on the top of it with my Dremel. Found a March 809 on CL, 4 cornies in the mail from Nicki Turner - there was a thread in the classifieds on here that put me up on that. I found that my LHBS (a great one - Siciliano's in Grand Rapids) has reconditioned cornies for $25 shortly after I paid for the shipping from Nicki but whatever.
So a lot of brewing projects going on, converting a chest freezer into a ... keezer, is that what we're calling them? I also want to use that for doing some lagers, which I'm pretty excited about. Also in the process of refinishing the basement to a proper cave suited to dispensing and consuming these beverages. Therefore you'll be seeing a lot of me, sending out questions into the void and hoping for your informative replies. I expect a fair amount of ridicule and ribbing as well, if I have you all pegged right. :cross:
OK, back to the Dremel. Slowly but surely, right?
