Bill2
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I know there are some bomb ass cellars lurking out there... come out of the woodwork and playyyy.
Jesus ****. Is that barrel for homebrew? (Also, are you still hanging out with Matt? I remember our trade ages ago that he set up.)Moving out of the city and into the burbs has some pros...
Jesus ****. Is that barrel for homebrew? (Also, are you still hanging out with Matt? I remember our trade ages ago that he set up.)
Moving out of the city and into the burbs has some pros...
I thought so, though I may have you confused with someone else. I traded with an M Moser in Illinois in June 2011. If that's not you, then I'll be SHOCKED.Don't home brew, picked it up from Goose for display. Have we traded?
You don't want them easily accessible for those drunken benders.In the back! Gotta hide the whales!
I thought so, though I may have you confused with someone else. I traded with an M Moser in Illinois in June 2011. If that's not you, then I'll be SHOCKED.
Nope, I'm stupac2 everywhere. It could've been him, it was a noob trade, RR locals for New Glarus stuff.That's funny. Did you have an alternate handle on BA? My brothers name starts with an M, but don't think he traded much.
that looks great, but where do you put the other 420 or so bottles?
Moving out of the city and into the burbs has some pros...
I have a question for people, do you store your most impressive beers at the front of your shelves? I ask because it often seems somewhat likely from these pictures, but I store my rarer stuff farther back. Then again, I'm in earthquake country, so that weighs heavily on my mind...
But we have crawlspaces, and they can be nearly as good!
It stays <70 even in the middle of summer. Not the best, but not bad. It's fuller now, I should get updated pictures. I have about 330 bottles total, and a buddy is storing his stuff in my place too. He has like 24 on my racks and another 340 or so in boxes.
My "cellar" is my wife's family heirloom steamer trunk
I'm genuinely interested as to why you've angled the shelves downward like that. I'm usually a store standing up, but am happy to store horizontally as well, but I imagine with lambics that angling them downward like that would put all the sediment and gunk right at the base of the cork?I'll be building my new shelving soonI'll be having the woodshop kids build my new shelving soon, so I was curious.
So, those shelves are not made 100% from scratch. I bought some of the parts off of craigslist and then made the front parts (which hold the necks so they won't go flying in a minor earthquake) myself. In order to be able to use the standard parts while still being able to get bottles in and out easily, they have to be angled down.I'm genuinely interested as to why you've angled the shelves downward like that. I'm usually a store standing up, but am happy to store horizontally as well, but I imagine with lambics that angling them downward like that would put all the sediment and gunk right at the base of the cork?I'll be building my new shelving soonI'll be having the woodshop kids build my new shelving soon, so I was curious.
Holy botchy ballsMoving out of the city and into the burbs has some pros...
So, those shelves are not made 100% from scratch. I bought some of the parts off of craigslist and then made the front parts (which hold the necks so they won't go flying in a minor earthquake) myself. In order to be able to use the standard parts while still being able to get bottles in and out easily, they have to be angled down.
Someone else asked this earlier and I said that I have not experienced any dregs in the neck. I haven't had them like that for all that long, though, since I completely rearranged the system during the summer after first making it last November, they haven't been sitting for more than a few months.
But I think that Bill is right that the angle is not so much as to get a lot into the neck:
That's approximate as it's hard to get SW to get the tangencies right, but I think it's a steeper angle, if anything. We'll see though, after a few more months it'll probably be clear where the dregs want to settle, I can post a picture at that point.
(If that image dies let me know, imgur is being a ****head right now and after 10 minutes it hasn't uploaded it, so I used some random site.)
If you're building from scratch that should be doable, I'm just lazy and not very good at wood working (though I'm a lot better than I was at the beginning of this ****). Really, if you want to build something with a huge capacity, you should look at mickey's or mjmoser's. That style of rack seems pretty easy and stores horizontally, though if you were feeling bold you could angle it pretty easily.Interesting. When I start building I was thinking about angling mine up in basically the same position as what it would be if it were sitting in a lambic basket. Thanks for the analysis.
Have you run out of space with the "hanging upside down in a room full of fireflies" method?Indeed. I've got around 400 bottles and I'll likely (unfortunately?) need room for more. I need to find decent plans for 375ml bottles.
Have you run out of space with the "hanging upside down in a room full of fireflies" method?
You could always just make a special rack for 375's, if you're going from scratch that wouldn't be all that hard.
Drink less, think more.I've been trying to come up with some snarky ass way to incorporate a Cleveland steamer joke into a reply all day and been coming up empty.
Indeed. I've got around 400 bottles and I'll likely (unfortunately?) need room for more. I need to find decent plans for 375ml bottles.
Interesting. When I start building I was thinking about angling mine up in basically the same position as what it would be if it were sitting in a lambic basket. Thanks for the analysis.
Lambic baskets hold the bottles at a pretty steep angle, are you trying to avoid beer contacting the cork?
What's in the drawers?You all have some kickass cellars full of kickass beer. Here's mine, it's just a fridge I bought on the cheap when I worked for Sears.
Cellar door (decorated with many stickers from some of you very generous BTers)
The inside:
The door:
What's in the drawers?
What's in the drawers?
Pics or gtfo.I actually use my crawl space which stays at a nice 57+- 2 all year round. Count fit all my stuff in a fridge so its good to have all the room. Needs to be straightened up currently though
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