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When Brewing Sessions Go Wild!

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Howdy all, Thought I'd take a few days off work and do a brew on my newly upgraded brewrig. This sounded like a good idea but when put into practice I went a little something like this.. Brew Day, James Squire Golden Ale Clone. Get up at 3am (when son wakes us up) settle him and turn the HLT. Testing out the new 2400watt element newly installed into the kettle. This works fine no drama or anthing. Get up and start to MASH in around 7am, tip the grain in the MLT, the crush looks a little different so i double check that it is crushed.. Yup it is but maybe my mill was on the wrong settle.. too late now!... to the HERMS pot on and get upto the 65.5c required for this recipe.. underlet 22lt into the MLT from the HLT, everything is going great guns at the moment... Its been awhile since i've brewed but after the water hits the grain you get a hit of that smell.. OHHHH i remember this smell! loving it at the moment.. Connect up the hoses to the pump/herms/mlt and kick it off.

How to Build a Kegerator

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The Brief! Update my Kegerator 1.0 *upright fridge which died!* Hide the Co2 Bottle Hide the Chest Freezer Must be mobile Have a chiller for glass's/bottle beer The wife must allow it in the house so it must match the house have built before my 30th Must have top mount font Tools Used Me Drill Table Saw Circular Saw Jigsaw Wood Glue Sheets of 18mm MDF (I think) Sheets of 3m MDF (I think) Hole Saw Clamps Pre-Design the kegerator Did a bucketload of googling to find what other people are doing to see any cool designs. I found some cool designs but in the end decided to do my own. Designing the kegerator I thought I'd better design it before I go out and start whacking some wood and stuff together. From the brief i had a think about what I could do, got all the dimensions of the gear and modeled them up so not to miss anything. (I had more pictures but my computer died and it didn't save them all)     The