MaxOut
Well-Known Member
I know this has nothing to do with brewing beer but I thought if anyone would appreciate it it would be the members of homebrew talk. Over the past year I have not brewed on the MaxOut Brewstation. In early January I lost a close friend unexpectedly who was also my brewing partner. It has been difficult for me to get back into the brewery. Although I consider myself a beer connoisseur of sorts and really love a good IPA I still prefer a crisp refreshing lager on those hot summer days. My lager of choice has always been Moosehead Lager or my own brew 444 that I created as a clone to Moosehead lager. So in the absence of my homebrew this summer I have been accumulating a lot of empty Moosehead bottles. My wife came up with an idea to make a tree out of the Moosehead bottles. With the help of my wife, friends and family we have amassed a large quantity of Moosehead bottles. I originally laid out the design of the tree in CAD software and estimated I would need 597 bottles to make a tree approximately 10 feet tall and 5.4 feet wide. When I started assembling the tree I decided to make it wider at the bottom to 6 feet. There was one major flaw in my cad design aside from widening the tree I had added a space between each bottle in the design. This error along with widening the tree significantly increased the number of bottles needed to accomplish this tree. Luckily we continued to save our Moosehead bottles and had enough.
So this is what we ended up with.
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The tree and star is close to 15' in height, 7' wide at base with 999 bottles adorning it.
So this is what we ended up with.
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The tree and star is close to 15' in height, 7' wide at base with 999 bottles adorning it.