Wildwest's brew lean-to (my almost dream build)

[Seabee John]

A bar is only cool until you have people over, then it's trashed.

Nope... you're wrong... just like a house isn't a home till you've lived in it... a bar is only a bar till you've partied in it.... then it's "THE" bar... Long live "THE" bar!

Awesome build man

 

[BrewBeemer]

A big house party isn't complete unless the cops arrive.

 

[wildwest450]

A big house party isn't complete unless the cops arrive.

It's only a matter of time.

 

[BrewBeemer]

Take picture of the coppers there then it's an offical house and bar.

 

[iggie]

This is simply awe inspiring. I have seen many "home bars" before but a "home brew pub" is the way to go. Even SWMBO agrees. Your project got me the green light!

Cheers!

 

[KingHippo]

Dude!!! Quite possibly the best beer porn ever... If it was in magazine form I would have to sneak it back up to my old room!! HA

 

[iron_city_ap]

What is possibly one of the most awesome home bars ever is trashed in that picture. You should probably tear it down and rebuild it from the ground up. lol.

BrewBeemer, The area I live in is MUCH better and I'm moving to a different area that is even nicer. The bad areas can just suddenly stop. Granted, if you are headed in the wrong direction, they can suddenly start too. I mean, you cross a highway and its almost a night and day difference. Overall, Chicago is a great town. Lake Michigan water is perfect for brewing with too. I'm going to be sad to not having it to brew with. Stupid well water (with sulphur).

 

[BrewBeemer]

Good fresh wellwater on my island that is surrounded by saltwater.
Only thing it's rather hard water for brewing. Perfect for the Koi pond.

 

[wilceaser]

Congrats WW, Now you can say it's done! Enjoy it in health.

 

[thehines]

I have enjoyed watching this build Thanks

 

[Argus79]

The place looks great, well it did before the party.
Congratulations looks like a cool place to hang out and brew.

 

[wildwest450]

The place looks great, well it did before the party.
Congratulations looks like a cool place to hang out and brew.

Thanks. Nice to hear from someone close to home.

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[Argus79]

Your really gonna appreciate the brew pub if this winter is like last winter. I finally built a shed to brew in this summer and so far its been great. I no longer have to step over a bunch of SWMBO's Christmas stuff every time I want to brew.

I'm in Sparta pretty often. We should swap some brews. Next time I'm headin your way I'll p.m. you.

 

[wildwest450]

Your really gonna appreciate the brew pub if this winter is like last winter. I finally built a shed to brew in this summer and so far its been great. I no longer have to step over a bunch of SWMBO's Christmas stuff every time I want to brew.

I'm in Sparta pretty often. We should swap some brews. Next time I'm headin your way I'll p.m. you.

Sounds good. I'm slowly getting my pipeline built back up.

 

[Argus79]

Do you ever go to the UC Masher meetings?

 

[brboland]

nice setup, i can only dream of such a brew space

 

[shamrockdoc]

Been following this build and all i gotta say is awesome man! I can only dream of having my own some day. Congrats man you got a great pub there!

 

[wildwest450]

Do you ever go to the UC Masher meetings?

I'm trying, i've brewed with Tim a couple of times. Every time they have one something comes up, I was on the couch sick this weekend, eventually it will happen.

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

A big house party isn't complete unless the cops arrive.

I guess, according to this, I've never had a complete house party. The last party we had, we exceeded 50 people, had 3 bands playing in my garage, and didn't turn out the lights until 530am. I've got great neighbors.

Now back to the awesome build...

MORE PICTURES!!!!

 

[wildwest450]

MORE PICTURES!!!!

Alrighty then, my kegerator is functioning! Only one beer on tap at the moment, but it's better than having to run upstairs for one. A nice schwarzbier for breakfast, mmmmmm. Now that's why all this trouble is worth it.

 

[Justibone]

Oooh... nice.

You've got the spot for the second tap there, though, so it's in the works.

 

[wildwest450]

Oooh... nice.

You've got the spot for the second tap there, though, so it's in the works.

Ya, I have the faucet, just not going to connect until I have a beer to keg, so I can clean the line first. I'm that lazy.

 

[Seabee John]

I'm that lazy.

+1 brother, +1

 

[wildwest450]

MOAR! The epoxy is going on the bar top today. The guy who built my bar is doing it, he has one top under his belt, which is one more than I have. I will say, it looks fantastic, we will do one more coat in 4 hours.


Good use of a trashed better bottle

Squeegeeing the epoxy around

Heating bubbles out.

A mirror finish

As good as the pics look, the real thing looks even better, i'm happy I went ahead with this step.

 

[Justibone]

Wow!

 

[smmcdermott]

That is awesome. Just out of curiousity, how much did that cost, if you don't mind.

 

[wildwest450]

That is awesome. Just out of curiousity, how much did that cost, if you don't mind.

http://www.uscomposites.com/kk121.html

$64 plus shipping, very reasonable in my book. It's a 50-50 mix of resin and hardener.

 

[DiNap44]

Wow!

 

[Frodo]

Hadn't seen this thread before. Beautiful brew space and bar. Nice work!

 

[DrinkingLounge]

awesome job