Samuel

This is my sweet all grain brewing setup. I’ve been working on getting it together for about a year, and it’s almost to where I like it.

The top tier is a brewheat, which holds hot sparge water. It actually plugs in to a 220 volt outlet, so I can heat the sparge water in it (although I have generally elected instead to heat the water separately and dump it in). I inherited this from my Father in Law, who used it when he was brewing back in the 80s.

The second tier is the mash/lauter tun. The final step in making this work is a small circle of perforated stainless steel that my friend Tom gave me. Another friend, Ben, helped me cut it to size.

The bottom tier is a 7.5 gallon stainless steel kettle that my Mom and Dad gave me for my birthday this year sitting atop a propane burner from my Mother in Law and Mr. O.

This system, in other words, owes a debt of gratitude to many friends and family members who made it possible.

Hey there sport fans. Today, the family went to the Oregon Logging Conference. This seems like a strange event for a family of environmentalist, earth conscious, back to the land type organic granola crunchers like us. And it is, but there is one marvelous redeeming feature of this event; lots and lots of machines which on Saturday morning they let kids climb around on (in what is probably a massively bad idea from a liability standpoint). You can see some pictures of Arthur and his friends climbing around here. But in this post, what I want to show you is exactly how dangerous a place the world really is. I went around the displays of machines looking for pictures of everyone’s favorite stick man getting mangled in various ways. It’s amazing all the bad things that can happen to you when you’re not careful around machines. Check it out;

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