skadaddy

I may try and open an etsy store this winter for my hats?

 

Can you make me one for my weiner? It gets so cold here in Sacramento.

 

Winter will be here before you know it.

How are you seeing availability?

 

4 posts before yours:

 

I'm assuming he added them all go his cart until it said he couldn't add another copy.

I'll bring you guys some voodoo donuts. Good morning folks!

 

I thought the Butcha always brought the meat.

 

 

 

Heyooo!!

Also makes me realize I've never posted a picture of myself on this site.

Jared poster done. patience kids..theres a list.

 

 

These posters are amazing. There needs to be a place where they get shared so I don't miss any of them when I'm not online.

All Mods are lame!!!!

 

 

Booooo. skadaddy does not approve this post.

 

I just found the post.

 

I'm sorry, Juan, but I have no idea who this girl is.

 

But she seems friendly in the poster.

Also:

 

Nothing bad. Just perpetuating my being a HxC Punk metalhead who looooooooooooooooves pop music. 

 

That does sound expensive.

I pee in everything.

I just got a call from a local IT place, that liked my resume. He said he only has retail positions open now, but feels I'm over qualified and he can't pay me enough, but he said next month they are hiring for their business side which starts out at $5 more than I make now, so he said he'll call me for an interview for that. Awesome.

 

Nice.

haha yeah, i didn't think it was a place people usually go unless they have work to do. i might be heading up towards the city anyway to see a friend, but if that doesn't happen i'll just hang around my hotel.

 

i just looked at their list of beers and i'm very intrigued. it's only 10 miles from my hotel. definitely doable!

 

If you end up checking it out, let me know what you think. Maybe I'll make the trip over next time I'm stuck in the East Bay for work/training.

Friends shouldn't let friends order online drunk.

 

What did you do??

hey, do you have any recommendations for dinner in san jose? i'm up there for a night in a couple weeks (got a job to do and i'm flying out right after). staying by the airport, but i'll have a car and don't mind driving. not sure if you ever go down there.

 

I haven't spent time in "the Hoe" in decades. I grew up in the Peninsula, so we didn't really venture that far South because The City was the other direction and had way more to offer.

 

There is a brewery in San Jose that I've been wanting to check out, but like I said, the opportunity hasn't arisen yet. It's called Hermitage Brewing Company, but I don't think they serve food:

also, PHRASING!

 

Damnit.

 

very cool! and i'm excited to hear about this new beer. i've been loving the citra stuff that's been out this year.

 

It's an awesome hop. So much citrus and grapefruit when it's used right.

 

I did an all Citra SMaSH IPA a few months ago and I was really pleased with it.

Thanks. It was actually my bride's idea for me to build it. She said she was tired of waiting three weeks after I bottled my beer for it to bottle condition before she got to try it. She is seriously the most supportive person I know when it comes to this shit. I'll see if I can find a picture of my basement "brewery."

 

Here's what she let me do to our quarter basement. It's so small down there that I couldn't even get a shot of everything:

 

 

My old turntable is in the upper right.

yeah. that thing is pretty badass.

 

Thanks. It was actually my bride's idea for me to build it. She said she was tired of waiting three weeks after I bottled my beer for it to bottle condition before she got to try it. She is seriously the most supportive person I know when it comes to this shit. I'll see if I can find a picture of my basement "brewery."

Nice, looks good. I imagine it was cheaper than buying one too.

 

Definitely. The best part was that I could upgrade the tower and the faucets with the money I saved doing it myself.

 

   

 

That's awesome man!

 

Thanks, guys!

 

Half of this hobby is getting to build my own equipment, which satisfies my need to build things. The other half is the drinking part, which satisfies my need to drink.

Nice! That sounds awesome. Post some pics of that kegerator, I love seeing diy builds for stuff like that.

 

Here you go:

 

 

I had to pry the top off the fridge and carefully cut through 3 inches of foam so I could find the coolant lines so I wouldn't damage them and essentially brick the fridge when I drilled through it. My garage floor was covered in tiny pieces of that foam, all of which sticks to everything.

 

 

Then I drilled holes through and added copper pipes for the beer lines so they would transfer the cold air from the inside to keep the beer in the lines cold and foam free. Added some plywood and mounted the tower an the taps.

 

 

Assembled the whole thing and added drawer pulls from Ikea to make the rails on the top.

 

 

I then tore out the factory controller/light unit and rewired the fridge so I could control it with a homemade temperature controller that reads the chamber temperature and enables the compressor whenever the fridge gets 1 deg F above the setpoint. That's the box on the left that has the digital temperature readout. This is the type of shit I do at my job, so it was a given that I was adding one. I have a dual stage controller I built for my fermentation chamber in the basement.

 

I don't have any shots of the inside, but it barely holds two 5 gallon corney kegs and a 5lb CO2 tank.

 

I think my favorite part is that the fridge has a lock built in so I can keep the boys from opening the door and letting all the cold out.

 

I still need a drip tray. And a beer that's ready to keg. Soon...

That sounds so goood

 

I'm hoping. I'm pretty happy with the grain bill I've developed over the last few IPA's, and aside from Magnum for bittering and the 2ish ounces of Citra I have leftover, all those IBU's are coming from the Galaxy hops. I'm using 3 oz to dry hop with so the fruitiness should be in your face.

Nice! That sounds awesome. Post some pics of that kegerator, I love seeing diy builds for stuff like that.

 

I think I have some on my phone. I'll try and remember to post some after I get these designs out.

Brew Day Saturday!!

 

I'm making a Galaxy IPA with Citra. If all goes according to plan: 7% ABV and 102 IBU's.

 

It will also be the first beer that I keg in the kegerator I built from a $35 Craigslist mini fridge.