New SS Brewtech Half BBL BME Fermenter

Today, I finally got a respectable half barrel conical fermenter. I went with the SS Brewtech Brew Master Edition. This represents a huge investment (nearly half of what my full setup cost), but I think it is going to be worth it.

Tour - Troegs and Appalachian Breweries

I just got back from Washington D.C. and a quick trip up to Harrisburg, PA, where I visited Troegs Brewery and Appalachian Brewing Co. Troegs Brewery was a fairly small operation, a lot like Rogue Brewery, but the tour was a blast. I really liked John, one of the brothers that started the brewery, and his tour. Had a great tasting and lots of fun.  Images available.

Ventamatic Beer Faucets

I have a 4-faucet beer fridge that one person (well, one working person...) simply can not keep used enough for conventional faucets to not get sticky and freeze up with old, dry, sticky beer. Except for this new faucet, called the Ventamatic Beer Faucets. It is basically the same as the perlick faucets and they close from the back where the beer is. So, nothing should stick and get gummed up. After using two of these for a couple months now, I can say, these things are awesome and if you have sticky faucets, I would heartily recommend you try some of these. I think Santa is bringing me two more for Xmas!

Tour - Moab Brewery

I know it has been a long time since much has been put on this page, but I have still been busy brewing. I'm going to try to get some of my latest batches up on the site soon. I just got done fermenting 10 gallons of fresh cider (it tastes like crap and smelled REALLY bad, so I hope it turns out...I doubt it will...bummer). I just got back from a trip to Moab, UT. I tried some of the Derailleur Red Ale from The Moab Brewery, and I'm in love. I have to find a way to clone some of this!

How I Brew

Finally got a section detailing How I Brew put up. It has details about all my proceedures for brewing and even has a sample data sheet for recording all my critical numbers. Hope this helps a lot of you out. I've had a LOT of questions and requests for something like this.

Old Blog site

Link to the old site Blogs here.

Future site plans

One thing that I really liked on one of the pages that I saw, was sort of a step-by-step break down of how his brew day went (critical temps, what went where, etc). I think I'll try to add a Brew Proceedure page that just sort of shows how/what I do. May save me answering a lot of questions all the time in the emails I get.

Oh, and I'm almost out of Black Butte Porter. Seems like it has the PERFECT OG to make it be my next 20 gallon brew from a single mash session!

Jason also picked up 10 pin-lock Coke style corny kegs for $10 each last Friday, so I'm taking 2 of them and getting some quick flare pin-lock taps for them to potentially put in my fridge if I need to. That way Jason and I can swap kegs once in a while if we need to.