Showing posts with label DIY Bear Gear. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

DIY Stainless Steel Pot Fermentor

Check out this brilliant video on how to make an easy to clean 5 gallon stainless steel fermentor!

Happy New Year!


Thursday, November 24, 2016

Homemade Beer Advent Calender


How to make a beer advent calender:

Grain Bill :)
  1. 24 Different Winter/Christmas Beers
  2. 1 Beer box that hold 24 beers
  3. 5 Christmas wrapping paper styles (Suggest getting from Dollar Store)
  4. Holdiay tissue paper or Disposable Holiday Table Cloth
  5. Christmas labels with ties on strings
  6. Advent printer labels with numbers and symbols (1to 24) - make your own

Steps
  1. Print and cut out Advent daily labels (1-24)
  2. Using glue stick, glue to Christmas label tags
  3. Cut wrapping paper into 12 inch by 8 inch strips (6 of each type)
  4. Roll beer bottle in wrapping paper with bottle one inch from bottom
  5. Fold bottom and tape
  6. Twist top and tie label around top
  7. Repeat x 6 for each wrapping paper style
  8. Should end up with 4 rows x 6 beer bottles each
  9. Wrap beer box with 5th style wrapping paper inside and out
  10. Fill with holiday tissue paper paper or disposable hold at table cloth
  11. Make one for yourself and your best beer buddy and pay it forward :)
  12. Happy Holidays!



Saturday, October 15, 2016

Building a DIY Randall 3.0

"What is a Randall you may ask? Back around 2002, Dogfish Head Brewing figured out how to turn a filter housing into a device that could infuse beers with various ingredients as they were being poured. They named this genius device "Randall the Enamel Animal", and the when they actually started building them for the beer industry the name stuck. The original Randall stirred up the beer world quite a bit, but it did have a pretty serious flaw; that being that it foamed, a lot!

So, in 2010 they set out to re-design the Randall to address the foaming issue. What ended up working was to add a second "de-foaming" chamber, which can be surrounded by ice, and a flow control faucet to balance the beer flow on the way out.

Now, you can buy these pre-built, directly from Dogfish Head for (at the time of writing) $298.00. While this is great for commercial breweries and some heavy pocketed home brewers, we have to face that fact that most of us home brewers are cheap and always looking for ways to save as much money as possible."

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Your Home Yeast Lab Made Easy

Great You Tube Channel from Sui Generis Brewing for learning about setting up a Yeast bank.





Sunday, September 4, 2016

PET-a-Draft mini beer keg system


"It solves a few issues for lovers of home-made and craft beer:

  • Beer going flat once the growler has been opened.
  • Having to clean and fill 48 bottles to store your batch of home brewed beer.
  • It allows you to use 2 liter pop bottles (PET) which is cheap or your glass growlers. 

Apparently you can get 3 liter pop bottles in the US. Or buy 6 litter PET bottles from Tap-a-draft. They use 38 mm caps, same as beer growlers.

You only need a few parts and it requires very little skill.

Assumes you already have a CO2 tank and regulator

DON'T use this without a regulator set at less than 40 PSI !!" - Lompie

Click here for plans from Lompie
See here for the party tote that goes with it!