Another busy weekend of projects, although this time it was at home instead of my Parent’s house. After 3 years of fighting limited power availability in my basement “brew room”, I finally took the initiative to install more outlets on an existing 20A circuit. Its crazy, but the existing one only had a single, extremely [...]

As some of you know, I was out of town for the past few days in St. Louis visiting the Anheuser-Busch facilities there for a business-related meeting. Part of that trip provided me with an opportunity to talk shop with one of the brewers, a packaging engineer and their engineering manager as well - and [...]

For days now I’ve been working on getting Donna’s welding area ready for her. This means hanging the dry wall, taping, mudding, spackling… It’s a never-ending and extremely dusty process. Things are turning out pretty good, and I hope that we’ll have things ready and painted for her by this Sunday. The receptacles (both the [...]

… as in worn out, not visited the kegerator too many times this evening (which may be true too).
Last few days have been really busy - Saturday I hung drywall in the garage, so all that remains is taping, priming and painting. It was exhausting work, and I certainly learned some good “Dos” and [...]

Today I racked the Oktoberfest and the California Commonfest over to secondaries. They’ve been on the yeast for about 2 1/2 weeks, have fallen crystal clear, and had very little yeast activity, so I figured it was time. The process was very uneventful, and I didn’t get any yeast in the secondaries at all. I [...]

It’s spring and that universally means time to clean. In our case, that meant major work over the past two days has gone into getting our garage back into shape. One obvious reason is creating a safe, clean and adequate space for Donna’s welding…. We intend on taking this wall of the garage, putting up [...]

Man, that’s hot. Well it finally happened… My wife pulled the trigger, and now she’s just a total bad@$$. She is the proud owner of a Lincoln Electric 225 Precision TIG welder.
This weekend we’ll figure out where her work area is going to be and get the area cleaned out & set up. Once [...]

I have moved my homebrewing-related blog posts from the First State Brewers’s blog over to this one for the time being. I found that most of the posting was being monopolized by me, and since I am not the president anymore, it probably wasn’t really appropriate. Another reason is that I’ve been looking to find [...]