Last night we bottled our first batch of OA beer. It was pretty awesome to see our experiment limping idly towards success. The beer turned out to be much lighter than it appeared while fermenting in the carboy, but it was pretty remarkable how much like beer this strange concoction actually looked. We siphoned the [...]
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Quick Switch Between Cornelius (Homebrew) Keg & Sanke (Commercial) Keg
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Great Price On Kegerator
I just noticed this sale on kegerators. You can get a single faucet tower kegerator with CO2 tank included for $425! Shipping puts you up to just about $500 for the whole thing. This is a very competitive price. The only thing I don’t know about is the quality of the product, both the fridge [...]
She-Devil Novelty Tap Handle
As I mentioned in a previous post, I cleaned my kegerator lines last night and, inadvertantly, my entire keg fridge. It’s odd how, as you grow more rings around your trunk, you come to truly relish and enjoy the simpler things in life. I love the time I get to spend with my kegerator, disassembling [...]
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Twitter Haikus
I’m sitting here drinking a delicious Metropolitan Flywheel while I clean my kegerator. I decided to post that with a link to instructions on how to clean beer lines on Twitter. While tweeting, it dawned on me that Twitter is the ideal spot for a new birth of the Haiku amongst the mainstream malaise. So, [...]
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Dogfish Head Chica Explained
Interesting video here explaining the process of using enzymes from human saliva as a way to create the sugars for the new Dogfish Head beer, Chica. Chicha beer is Peruvian in origin and typically uses purple maize, but can have many other ingredients like yucca or strawberries in Dogfish Head’s case. I’m a big fan [...]
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