Happy Holidays!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to wish everyone the very best that life can offer for this wonderful holiday season! Now go out and try some different beers!

Speaking about different beers, my wife gave me as a present a 12 pak of Beers from Across America, which contained 2 beers of different styles from all over the US! (she said that she got it at SAM's Club). It contains (or supposed to cantain) some of the best beers made from the best micro-breweries in the US. It has Porter to Light Ale and even a lager. Needless to say, I am waiting until New Year's Eve to break into this most auspicious gift!

I've been real busy giving my friends and co-workers presents this season. I have given as gifts a lot of the Peach Wine that I made and even had some people asking how to order more for next year! Everyone seems to like that wine a lot!

The last 2 beers that I made are slowly disappearing, and the Pale English Ale came out awesome. One of the best beers that I have ever brewed!

The Oatmeal Stout will be ready in about 4 more weeks too!

I am currently working on expanding the home brewery and have already received a bigger boil kettle ( a new SABCO keg) and am waiting for the new mash tun and new 14 gallon SS conical fermenter to arrive as well. In the meantime, I will be building a fermenting chamber of which I have already gotten most of the parts. It will be run on 2 TEC's (thermoelectric) cooling devices attached to a home made very well insulated chamber large enough to contain the conical fermentor and maybe 2-4 cornie kegs too! I will post some photos (taken by my new digital camera) as the new brewery is being built and put together. It will be a HERMS system controlled by a PID controller and 2 pumps. I have yet to order the convoluted copper coil for the counterflow chiller to be made for the pre-chiller and the other coil for the deep-chiller. I will do my very best to provide photos of every step of the way on the construction of this new brewery.

Well....gotta run...
Please have a very healthy and safe holiday season!