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I have had a very productive weekend. Yesterday’s effort has already been documented. What I failed to mention was the reason for such industry. What else? Beer! While I love having a hobby where the fruits can be enjoyed in such a hedonistic way, it can be a lot of work getting to the “enjoying” part.
What I wanted to do yesterday was modify my parents old freezer into a “kegerator”, and clean and prepare my kegs for the storage of beer. I had acquired a tank of CO2 on Thursday after much bollocksing about with account setups and such, and was all ready to rock and roll. Or so I thought.
“Hrm”, I thought to myself, “if I hack this thing up and get it all going, I have nowhere to put it. Maybe I should clean out my computer room…”. And so it began. I cleaned out and totally rearranged my computer room. Halfway through the day I had an empty room, and the rest of the house looked like a bomb had gone off. At about 2pm I realised that there was no way in hell I was going to sort that mess out and still have enough daylight left for serious beer-related hardware hacking. No matter, it meant a great job was done, with no time pressure, and Sunday was free for beer hacking!
Sunday dawned overcast, but essentially OK. It actually didn’t take too long to drill a couple of holes, fit and test the lines, clean the kegs, and finally fill the first keg with my first all-grain brew - Crazyhorse, an American style APA. I plonked it in the big gap I had laboriously created for it yesterday, and hooked it up to the mashmaster thermostat, installed the CO2 tank, regulator, and hooked up the keg. In about a week, it will be ready to taste! Note that I’m not force carbonating, just providing enough pressure to allow the beer to carbonate on its own during refermentation in the keg. Pressure is 10psi (or 70 kPa). Have some photos!