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[Robmay]

Robmay, you are playing with my emotions!  Love the Sierra Nevada...Dang, I am thirsty now!

Miker

Here ya go ole buddy!!

[Robmay]

I'm more concerned the other way...  No way we keep the house set to 70 - so I have to keep it cold somehow.  It gets pretty warm in NC during the winter even.

After reading about this here and getting the links I did some research and found some folks using refridges or freezers with modified thermostats to keep them warmer then normal.

Sean

Sean,

Florida too. At the present I use a deep freezer with an analog temperature control. I have a friend who uses a deep freezer that the compressor was bad on with a small 110 AC unit cut into the side and it works great. Thats what I'll do if I ever have any compressor issues.

Before I bought my wife an upright freezer I used the cardboard boxes my beer kit came in. I lined it with some old styrofoam I had laying around and would swap out frozen 20 ounce to 2 liter bottles to keep the temp in the mid 60's. I'll try and post a couple of pics below of the freezer now and the boxes then.

Freezer with a 5 gallon batch fermenting and two 3 gallon kegs with finished product.



Fermentation Boxes

[Sean M Cary]

Sean,

Florida too. At the present I use a deep freezer with an analog temperature control. I have a friend who uses a deep freezer that the compressor was bad on with a small 110 AC unit cut into the side and it works great. Thats what I'll do if I ever have any compressor issues.

Before I bought my wife an upright freezer I used the cardboard boxes my beer kit came in. I lined it with some old styrofoam I had laying around and would swap out frozen 20 ounce to 2 liter bottles to keep the temp in the mid 60's. I'll try and post a couple of pics below of the freezer now and the boxes then.

Freezer with a 5 gallon batch fermenting and two 3 gallon kegs with finished product.

Beautiful - exactly what I was looking for/wondering!

I roast my own coffee...I have a feeling I am going to be making my own beer here soon.

Sean

[Robmay]

Beautiful - exactly what I was looking for/wondering!

I roast my own coffee...I have a feeling I am going to be making my own beer here soon.

Sean

This Friday Beer Thread is what gave me the link to a forum of home brewers that got me into this!!

Here ya go!! There is a forum button in the right top corner whe you get tired of shopping.

http://morebeer.com/

[BIGDOG]

Hay where the H is the whip cream , where is the girl on her tip toes . [ it just ain't the same around here ] next thing you know it will be a beer recipe thread .

[Talon]

Beautiful - exactly what I was looking for/wondering!

I roast my own coffee...I have a feeling I am going to be making my own beer here soon.

Sean

If you really want to get into it, get Charlie Papazian's book, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. Great place to start, not a lot of BS that you don't need to get started, just the basic facts. Then as you go the Brewer's Companion by Randy Mosher, is a good book for when you start formulating your own recipes, Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels is a pretty good. I wouldn't even bother with these last two books until you spend some time brewing from recipes you find in some from books, or on line clones.

[Twolanerider]

If you really want to get into it, get Charlie Papazian's book, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing.

Have watched this thread from afart for awhile now.  With a total lack of comprehension.  Beer is for drinking.  Why would you turn it in to work ?

Sometimes I sits and thinks.  Sometimes I just sits and drinks. 

[naitram]

its not work. and the reward is more then worth it

[Robmay]

Have watched this thread from afart for awhile now.  With a total lack of comprehension.  Beer is for drinking.  Why would you turn it in to work ?

Sometimes I sits and thinks.  Sometimes I just sits and drinks. 

Is this another one of those trick questions?  

[Twolanerider]

its not work. and the reward is more then worth it

I'm being rewarded right now.  Only equpment I needed was a bottle opener .

[naitram]

me too, cept i brewed mine. come up for the Oct ride and get a sample

[Robmay]

I'm being rewarded right now.  Only equpment I needed was a bottle opener .

I didn't even need that..............

[Twolanerider]

me too, cept i brewed mine. come up for the Oct ride and get a sample

That's tempting.  Will have to find the October dates.  At least right now mid October is surprisingly unencumbered.

[Sean M Cary]

Have watched this thread from afart for awhile now.  With a total lack of comprehension.  Beer is for drinking.  Why would you turn it in to work ?

Sometimes I sits and thinks.  Sometimes I just sits and drinks. 

I am guessing its like my coffee...fresh roasted coffee is simply amazing.  \

you could ride a scooter with the same results as riding your CVO...why not just get a scooter instead?

[Twolanerider]

I didn't even need that..............

Oh my god.  I just defined heaven.  A perpetual keg, properly chilled, with a long straw that reached my chair .