Brew Brain Blog

I managed to finish up the keezer Friday night!  Woot Woot!  My home brewery is now complete with one small piece of equipment left to purchase.  I still need a heat source for fermenting in low ambient temperatures.
Here’s a photo of the thing:
From left to right is my beer fridge, fermentation freezer and keezer.
Here’s a […]

Not long ago, I bought a six-pack of North Coast Brewing’s Old Stock Ale - the 2008 vintage of their Barley Wine.  I’m drinking sipping the first one now.  The remaining five bottles are sitting pretty in my fermentation chamber at 64 degrees.  Too warm?  I hate to refrigerate them and stunt the growth, so […]

I really like Alton’s show on Food Network.  He’s fun to watch and quite informative.  He did an episode on beer brewing - extract with either a partial mash or steeping grains. I can’t tell which without seeing the rest of the episode, which I haven’t seen. I’ve only seen the video below.  […]

I now have all the equipment I need on order.  The keezer build will be completed very soon.  Once I receive everything, all I’ll have to do is sand the collar, drill the tap holes, attach the collar to the freezer and attach everything.  Oh, and of course I’ll need to go get the CO2 […]

That’s right, I’m now the happy owner of a second deep-freeze that I converted into a fermentation cabinet.  Actually, there is no real conversion.  I’ve simply plugged the freezer into a temperature controller that’s keeping the temperature at a steady 65 degrees, give or take a degree or so.  And, I’m making good use of […]