Sheen wrote:Is that a triple regulator/manifold I see there in the background? It took me 2 years of brewing before I got something similar...
I actually bought 2 of them
the one you see had the high pressure gauge dinged up during shipping, the other one is hooked up to the tank.
I'll think you'll like my kegerator idea when I finish building it. There will be a shelf that a 3-6 port regulator will rest on and a door in the front so you can tilt out the 20lb tank to refill it (2 day process here). In an emergency I can hook up a 5lb tank while I wait for the 20lb to be refilled. I am wrapping up a major project at the moment so I hope to have some free time to do serious work on the brew area after the new year.
I am going at this hobby a little backwards, getting geared up a little first (bought the chest freezer for the kegerator almost 8 months ago) and then actually brewing. Ran a version of Doc's/Tasty's/BrewTat's carboy cleaner last weekend for the first time and 45 minutes later my first dirty carboy was fresh and clean and rinsed out with hot water.
First Carboy Cleaning - Carboy tried to run away, so I strapped it to the future ferment fridge.
Sump pump in a kettle of PWD blasting the carboy - it is noisy, so I'm going to make a home for this on the other side of the wall. In a plastic laundry sink.
By this time next year I hope to have a nice all-grain setup going and (more importantly) the skills to use it properly. I wanted to try brewing almost 10 years ago, but it was only the beginning of this year that I found the BN and was able to seriously learn this craft. I am trying to make up for lost time. I bought Charlie P's book quite some time ago (and the Beerwidow bought me a Mr. Beer kit a year or so later for Xmas - it is still in the box) but it took Palmer's and Jamil's books and the BN for things to start to click and make sense.
