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After moving into the new house, I've been boiling wort at the stove instead of outside. I then have to make the treacherous journey down a couple stairs and ~30 feet away from the stove to the back patio, all while carrying 50 lbs of boiling-hot wort. This is of course a bad idea, so I...

I recently built a project box for using the Inkbird ITC-1000F digital temperature controller to control both heating and cooling. I put together a video on making the box for those of you who might be interested: Parts list is in the video's description. I'm using this to control my...

This past weekend my brother urbanmyth and I made a few beer crates since we're running out of horizontal real estate in the basement. All are made out of scrap dimensional lumber. The Grolsch one was made from a ~4' section of 4x4 and the rest from 2x4s. The individual pieces are 1/2"x1-3/8"...

I have an idea that I want to try out, namely toasting my own wood for oaking and also attempting to "homebrew" some whisky in the process. Essentially, I want to take some hardwood lumber scraps from the workshop, cube them up, toast/broil them in the oven to mimic the toasting process...

This weekend my brother Urbanmyth and I erected our hops trellis. The beast is 12ft tall, 12ft long, and 4ft wide. We put room for 5 rows of different hops. Now, some of you might say we didn't give enough room between different variations, but for now it will be fine. Below are some...

While my brother (urbanmyth) has been doing the lion's share of the brewing and bottling, I have, on the other hand, been making labels for our first creations. They are: If you haven't noticed, they all follow a similar template. All are done in Photoshop CS5...