I thought I knew how to brew

[Jmspears]

Just read the whole thread. Can’t believe you got the fermentation chamber so cheap! Congrats on getting married... and making your brewing deadline!

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Kudos to you! Wish I was close enough to at least sample some.

 

[Tbagger]

Just read the whole thread. Can’t believe you got the fermentation chamber so cheap! Congrats on getting married... and making your brewing deadline!

Yeah, it was a crazy deal! I still can't believe I got it so cheap.

 

[Nate R]

Great read! Love the story!
It's these types of threads that keep me up past my bedtime reading!
Congrats on the wedding. Hoping to see pics etc. And hear back on the beer, and especially excited about the mead!

 

[Tbagger]

The wedding is in a week and we are leaving for our pregame camping trip tomorrow so I made a couple of temporary keezers. Six recipes totaling 105 gallons of homebrew is finished, carbed, and ready to serve. I also have some extra connections for my home brewing friends to hook up their kegs and 2 sankey couplers for the 1/2bbl kegs that we ordered. The wife to be also made me some cool labels! Only downside is that I went with picnic taps (except the nitro stout faucet) so that drunken idiots don’t break my nice faucets. But overall I think they turned out decent and will serve their purpose. Pretty damn excited!

 

[Jmspears]

How did it go? Surely you’re back from your honeymoon by now [emoji6]

 

[NickTheGreat]

I missed this thread until today, but I'm glad I got to see the whole journey!

How did everything go?

 

[cmac62]

Congrats on the wedding, I'm following to see how everything goes

 

[Tbagger]

Went great! Got back yesterday. People loved the beer, especially the stout, but the mead was the biggest hit. No major problems with the keezers. All in all it was a major success. And as a bonus, I have quite a bit of left over beer. I didn't get to take pics as I was a little busy lol, but I'll post some when the photographer is finished touching up the ones he took.

 

[Tbagger]

So apparently the photographer didn’t get any shots of my brew station. But I’m in the process of tracking down all the guests pictures in hopes of getting some. But here are a few pic of the wedding.

 

[Tbagger]

And someone took a pics of my keg cooling system for the camping week leading up to wedding lmao. That water was 38F glacier run off.

 

[NickTheGreat]

That keg cooling picture is awesome!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Congrats, on the wedding and it looks like you did a great job planning and executing the brewing of adult beverages.

 

[bleme]

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It's been 3 days and this picture, with the one keg starting to tilt out, still gives me the shivers!

 

[pvpeacock]

That's awesome. I used to live in Alaska and our Rotary Club sponsored a beer garden for a summer fair ever year. We used to put all of our kegs in a glacier fed stream to keep them cold. We built a corral out of chicken wire and metal posts to keep the kegs from getting away. Every time we finished a keg, I would put the hip waders on and go get another one. Truly great memories.

 

[Tbagger]

It's been 3 days and this picture, with the one keg starting to tilt out, still gives me the shivers!

I checked on them daily and they were super tight. I think there was a rock between two of them that kind of pushed that one out a bit. But they weren't going anywhere.

 

[Nate R]

I checked on them daily and they were super tight. I think there was a rock between two of them that kind of pushed that one out a bit. But they weren't going anywhere.

I bet there were plenty of willing volunteers that would have swam after any strays!

 

[NGD]

Hell, I wasn’t even there and I would have.