Fellowship of The Homebrew VII: Kegs of Fury

[GnenieGone]

Want mine?

Not sure if they can be saved but I recently scored this Kegerator with taps and fittings for only $75. Personally, I've never been a fan of decorating with brewery stickers so assuming I can get them off cleanly, I'll gladly send them to you. View attachment 608408

Interesting approach. Start with that longhorn sticker..see how that goes first. [emoji6]

 

[GnenieGone]

...and all my grain getting infested with larva.

Use Whirlflocc tablets on the boil, it'll drop out the extra protein! BTW, pretty much every retail beer you drink had weevils in the grain.

 

[JCasey1992]

Interesting approach. Start with that longhorn sticker..see how that goes first. [emoji6]

That one is actually a magnet and may actually be the only one I want to keep [emoji38]. I was born in Austin and graduated high school in a suburb just a few miles down the road from there. I have since moved up to Colorado. Despite the fact that I like it a lot more up here, I will always be a horns fan. Hook 'em!

 

[Homergah]

Use Whirlflocc tablets on the boil, it'll drop out the extra protein! BTW, pretty much every retail beer you drink had weevils in the grain.

Ha! If only. I've cooked the little devils before. This was a bit beyond that. The cocoons had actually welded several bins shut. Seriously. My wife and son are both decent brewers, if they could have used the grain right then and there maybe it could have been saved. Son was busy with work and my wife needs an assistant when brewing. She can't lift much. Oh well. Got a new bag of brewer's malt and some more Crystal, etc.

 

[pshankstar]

Submitted my offer earlier today. Thought the deadline was closer than it is. Looking forward to this round!

 

[Scturo]

Still time to join if anyone is on the fence. Should be a great round!

 

[GnenieGone]

Ha! If only. I've cooked the little devils before. This was a bit beyond that. The cocoons had actually welded several bins shut. Seriously. My wife and son are both decent brewers, if they could have used the grain right then and there maybe it could have been saved. Son was busy with work and my wife needs an assistant when brewing. She can't lift much. Oh well. Got a new bag of brewer's malt and some more Crystal, etc.

Interesting. When the brew pub goes up, thinking about storage bin...but no?? Just get fresh?

 

[Homergah]

Interesting. When the brew pub goes up, thinking about storage bin...but no?? Just get fresh?

Brew pub? Need any help? I can be the weevil wrangler.

 

[GnenieGone]

Brew pub? Need any help? I can be the weevil wrangler.

Who'd thunk that was a thing

 

[TwistedGray]

Table wine (sans pic)

 

[TheEagleRising]

Speaking of stickers, anyone know a good AND cheep place to load up on various brewery stickers for the Keggorators?

1 brew kegged 3 more to go then 3 more brews to plan for....time to quit work again.

I just always grab mine from the breweries I visit or craft beer fests. Dont think I've ever bought one

 

[pshankstar]

Speaking of stickers, anyone know a good AND cheep place to load up on various brewery stickers for the Keggorators?

1 brew kegged 3 more to go then 3 more brews to plan for....time to quit work again.

I have some extra stickers I can send your way. PM me if you are interested. If you pick me in FotD or this round of FotHB I will be more than happy to include them in the package. If you're in no rush you can wait and see how those picks play out.

 

[TheEagleRising]

I may have some duplicates as well. Let me dig through my stash tonight.

 

[Homergah]

Interesting. When the brew pub goes up, thinking about storage bin...but no?? Just get fresh?

I had always kept my grain in a refrigerator, just taking out the big sacks of stuff if I needed ferm space. Then I heard that can encourage mold on the grain. So I quit. I also had the habit of putting the grain thru a deep freeze cycle to kill the bugs. I quit doing that also because my previous spare chest freezer got low on r22, which means it's done. I now have three dead chest freezers headed for the dump. I'm pulling the controls, compressors and any coils I can salvage out off them. And scavenging the refrigerant. Going to attempt a glycol chiller of massively overbuilt proportions.

 

[Scturo]

There’s a slight chance I’m getting extras for this trade today.

 

[GnenieGone]

Going to attempt a glycol chiller of massively overbuilt proportions.

I'd recommend you starting a thread for this project. Love to see it in progress.

 

[GnenieGone]

There’s a slight chance I’m getting extras for this trade today.

Monkish..pffff...I'll sacrifice myself and pick you. Save the others from disappointment!

 

[GaBrewZoo]

I finally got around to kegging my chocolate mint stout that I brewed early December to be ready for Christmas. Preliminary tastes say .

 

[GnenieGone]

I finally got around to kegging my chocolate mint stout that I brewed early December to be ready for Christmas. Preliminary tastes say .

My favorite ice cream. You just got sent to top of my list..but then there's the Monkish possibility....

 

[JCasey1992]

Enjoying a flight of my offerings tonight. So far, tasting pretty promising! Can't wait to see what you guys think!

 

[JCasey1992]

I think this picture says it all. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Otherwise I would have had to replace a good portion of my wardrobe [emoji38]. Kaboom!

 

[JCasey1992]

Oops! I think I've had a few. Wrong thread and I can't figure out how to delete.

 

[TwistedGray]

I think this picture says it all. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Otherwise I would have had to replace a good portion of my wardrobe [emoji38]. Kaboom!View attachment 610485

What happened?

 

[JCasey1992]

What happened?

Like I said in the post below, this was meant for another thread but long story short, I was still new to brewing at the time of this beer (a dubbel) and I didn't know what a blow off tube was. Fortunately, I received some great help from homebrewtalk members and was able to pry the lid off EXTREMELY CAREFULLY to release the pressure and rig a blow off.

I later realized that I don't like that style anyway but was at least able to avoid soaking my entire closet in beer.

 

[TwistedGray]

Like I said in the post below, this was meant for another thread but long story short, I was still new to brewing at the time of this beer (a dubbel) and I didn't know what a blow off tube was. Fortunately, I received some great help from homebrewtalk members and was able to pry the lid off EXTREMELY CAREFULLY to release the pressure and rig a blow off.

I later realized that I don't like that style anyway but was at least able to avoid soaking my entire closet in beer.

I was curious how you were able to release the pressure, looks gnarly! Eeeeek

 

[JCasey1992]

I was curious how you were able to release the pressure, looks gnarly! Eeeeek

Yeah. Dodged a bullet on that one as I only had limited spillage. I have used blow off tubes ever since. Never again lol.

 

[JCasey1992]

Sent my offer today.

 

[6Tap]

Sent my offer today!
Cheers [emoji482]

 

[TBC]

I may have to stop drinking now!

 

[GnenieGone]

Fellowship of the Drink - FotD XVI: The Donger Need Beer

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Participation & Offer Status

Active Participants with Offers:
TBC
TwistedGray
JamesonFan
j1laskey
Jimyson
MC82
imasickboy
Fourfarthing
brandtrepair
aharri1
dpinette2
HopsNTails
LoneTreeFarms
baldm79
CtownBrewer
Mullet6577
Louz
Thorrak
orionol73
afro_lou
FoxPaw
MapleGroveAleworks
GaBrewZoo
Jason613
pshankstar
EcuPirate07
Pianoman
jerbrew



Active Participants without Offers:
@wstbrewing

Wrong thread brother

 

[TBC]

deleted

 

[TBC]

Wrong thread brother

That would explain my other response. Sorry 6Tap!!

 

[GnenieGone]

Anyone mind changing the dates a bit? Offers due on 9th but picks are 2 weeks later. Could we shorten that a bit?

 

[Scturo]

Some very nice offers starting to come in. It's not too late to join the fun.

Offer Submitted:
@Scturo
@6Tap
@JCasey1992
@pshankstar
@jason613

Waiting for Offer:
@GaBrewZoo
@Homergah
@PianoMan
@imasickboy
@TBC
@fourfarthing
@chrisgood1
@Gunshowgreg
@Beerwildered
@TwistedGray

 

[Scturo]

Anyone mind changing the dates a bit? Offers due on 9th but picks are 2 weeks later. Could we shorten that a bit?

I don’t mind moving it up, if it’s ok with everyone. Any issues folks?

 

[fourfarthing]

Ok here

 

[JCasey1992]

I don’t mind moving it up, if it’s ok with everyone. Any issues folks?

Fine with me!

 

[Scturo]

I’ll wait till tomorrow. If there are no complaints, I’ll move it up to the 17th.

 

[TwistedGray]

Okay with me

 

[GnenieGone]

With the HB trades, making it sooner is a plus. We can awlays send later when folks feel they're ready. I got **** to send NOW! [emoji39]