Recent content by TwoWheeler

Aw c'mon, you should have taken one for the team! (Actually, I live near Saranac, Middle Ages and Ommegang, and have asked a bunch of questions on their tours...and the tour guides always seemed happy to answer - sometimes, I think they're pleasantly surprised to have people on the tour who...

So if I don't use the "search" function, I get flamed, but if I DO, I get flamed for thread dredging? ;)

Well, I'm not the OP, but I too am trying to clone MM as my "house" beer. I tried something very similar to what you posted: 13.5 Lbs Belgian Pilsner 2lbs. Candi sugar, Saaz hops (1 oz @60, .5 oz at 15 and 5 min) and Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes. Came out pretty lame. :( I...

I made them. The tap handles, the plexi engraving, the sandblast stencil, the stem cap, the door handles and the sign (not shown) were all "donated" by my employer ;) That's what happens when you have $50k worth of CNC sitting next to you, and a clueless boss....:rolleyes: I'm most proud of...

I looks like this, except with two taps: (See why I hid it behind door #2 - the one with the MSDS label.....:D?) It all started because I got sick of washing bottles and decided to keg...so I needed a kegerator....then, because I had the kegerator, I thought I ought to build a bar...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The HandleBAR, a cross pollination of my love for things with two wheels (powered and human powered) and my love of beer: It's hard to see, but there's a high wheeler engraved in the plexiglas door of my glassware cabinet (and the double doors of the...

Head/desk, head/desk That damned "search" function again.....:) Thanks! EZZZACKLY what I was looking for!

I am fortunate enough to have a large sugar maple right at the end of my driveway. Most springs, I can get enough sap for a half gallon of syrup and one five gallon batch of maple barleywine. Last year, when I racked to the Corny keg (after several months in secondary) apparently it took...

Yeah I was concerned about scorching, but was thinking of being able to gently add heat to the tun to take it from, say, 154 to mash out at 170. I know that some systems raise the temps by heating the recirculating tube- and I've heard scorching can be a problem there, too. Which brings me to...

Ah, good thought. Most of what I've seen have been converted kegs - which are the way they are because they're repurposed. Starting with a clean sheet like I am, I'm not bound by what's available. . Yeah, I get that. Haven't made up my mind about the direct- fired thing. Waiting for someone to...

Are you sure you quoted a BYO article and not my post, above? It was almost word-for-word....:D Ok, so THAT was a dumb idea. Scrap the "cooling down" portion of the program. Now that we've established that.....what about the REST of the stuff I asked about?

"Budget" is not really an issue. Much of what I'd be getting/doing will be for free. :D But it's not a money thing. I've been sorely tempted to just say "screw it" and buy one, but I am a hands-on, DIY kind of guy. The "building" is part of the fun for me. I've seen a lot of great looking...

Ok, obviously I'm not explaining myself well here. (What else is new?) When I refer to "cooling down" I don't mean more than five or ten degrees - the idea being to start at, say 158 and allow the alpha amylase enzymes to do their thing, then cool down to 145 to allow the beta amlyase enzymes...

Sorry for the confusion - I wasn't sure of the temps, so I got lazy and opened this in another tab and managed to get the wrong numbers anyway.....(that's what happens when I post at work....) (And I'm honest enough not to go back and fix my original post....):D But that's just details. What...

Bear with me and forgive my n00bishness while I ask a bunch of stoopid questions... Every time I use my ghetto all-grain setup (picnic cooler) I keep thinking "I ought to build me a badass,over-the-top brew sculpture..." ( I loves me some overkill.....) A little background.... I'm a...