Piedmont Brewery Co.

Well, here she is.

Kreezer

Eventually there’s going to four taps.

Well, I don’t have any pictures … I can tell you we brewed 10 gals of a very good (Okay I don’t know that, but it smelled and looked good) Oatmeal Stout. Right in line with trying something new every time we brew we’re fermenting this in one of our extra kegs. Reports from Dan seem to suggest that we’ve got a nice vigorous fermentation on our hands.

We also worked on some of our equpiment Sunday. We created a brewbox, a tool box that holds both our pumps. Its pretty good to have both pumps secured in one container with the controls easily accessable. I’ll post pictures later this week.

-Alex

Here is a photo of the pale ale we brewed some time ago. Pretty good if I am any judge of beer …

Looks good, eh?

Well, I’ve been slowly (at least slowy in my eyes) working on getting the equipment to slant my own yeast. I ordered a large amount of glassware from cynmar. I was kind of worried that the UPs driver would call the athorities based on the large number of crack vials I ordered … good news is that he didnt. I ordered a stir plate, that shipped today. So hopefully this weekend I’ll be getting everything together and start slanting yeast!

-Alex

Heres a photo of my pumpkin beer.

Its pretty good. I don’t see a reason why I’ll end up with extra …

-Alex

Well, we brewed beer again.

Photos here

It was fun, and nice to have my grandpa helping out. But we’ve got bigger news, and I’ll post about that later.

-Alex

I’ve added some more photos of the keggerator. Basically everything works as intended. I need to drill another hole for the gas lines, but as far as functionality goes … its pouring beer.

I did change the “tap” design a bit. The 1/2 copper pipe I got could never fit through the bung, I switched to a 1/2 barb. That seems to work, and will be a tad bit easier to use. I need to get quick connects hooked up to everything so replacing kegs is easier, and hopefully taking a keg with me becomes more of an option.

Link to photos

-Alex

Well, we finally got around to kegging some of our beer. The pumpkin smelled amazing, and the hydro sample tasted excellent too. Mah Pale Ale wasn’t too far off of what I was expecting either. So we’ve got 3 weeks or so for everything to carb up then I’ll let you know how the finished product turns out.

Kegging Day

-Alex

Well, its been along time.

Heres what I’m currently working on.

Minikegerator

More pictures can be found here … Minikegrator

This current project goes hand in hand with our thinking about using the minikegs to keg our beer. I don’t have room for a corny keg setup. As much as I like the ease to pass bottles out I think these little kegs would be perfect. As long as I can get the tap equipment worked out I see this a being a great alternative to bottling.

-Alex

Heres my photos I took from the 30th. The pumpkin is looking awesome, well it was, before we boiled it.

Photos!

-Alex