This is the nerveless homemade kegerator I ’ve ever see :
That kegerator is made from a Craiglist dresser freezer , with a magnetized dick tray , custom stained forest , dab that have yeast vials as handles … it ’s amazing .
What – your parson does n’t have an amazing homemade kegerator ? And he says beer is big ? ? ? Shame !
Not my rector – he ’s REFORMED !
And has a deer head on the bulwark .
Pastor Joel explaining his top - notch homemade kegerator
Pastor Joel explaining his top-notch homemade kegerator
I unite Redemption OPC Church in Gainesville a few years back .
I originally joined for the divinity and their drill of including tyke in all the help , rather than ship them off into classrooms or the nursery .
Yet the hoi polloi are one of the greatest thing about this church .
Pastor Joel explaining his top-notch homemade kegerator
I was at my parson ’s home for lunch on Sunday good afternoon and ask if he ’d mind if I record his amazing home brewing setup .
He hold – and concord to leave the tour … so here ’s
A Homemade Kegerator!
The beer that Pastor Joel makes and stored in his homemade kegerator is amazing stuff . Very , very good . And as he cover in the TV , he ’s brew a limited homemade recipe name after our Christian church .
Now I ’m not all that dear at homebrewing . I really do n’t tope all that much beer , but I like the theme as it tie in at least tangentially to self - sufficiency .
My Home Brewing Story
In my fresh bookGrow or go bad : The Good Guide to Survival Gardening , I spell a number about how a still works ( and include an representative ) , plus I tell the ridiculous story of how I made alcohol-dependent “ beer ” for my ally as a little child .
But I have another story for you today .
A little while before I started this blog , I did have a multi - month run of experiment with malting grain and brewing beer .
I should have paid attention to this book
My original finish was to grow my own grains , make my own malt and brew beer in a gridiron - down Book of Revelation congeal . Then I could trade it to dire dipsomaniac for amber jewellery and bass part boats .
I should have pay attention to this book
I went ace blue - technical school . I used shape - away bottles from the recycling mall , 5 - gal pail and bare tools .
And I terminate up with beer that tasted like boiled onions and watery livid bread .
I still drank it all finally , because I ’m cheap .
The boiled onion part was n’t the fault of my process . rather , it was the error of the fermentation vessel I used : a recycle food - grade five - gallon hole bucket from Firehouse Subs .
I had no idea the pickle nip would be soak up into my wort so totally , or that it would pick up an ugly oniony tang along the journey from malt to bottle .
Oh well .
I go a really good book on the topic : The Complete Joy of Home Brewingby Charlie Papazian … and then did n’t really watch over much of what it tell because I was looking to minimise everything down to complete simplicity .
I also constitute that home brewing pass to married rubbing .
That mostly came in the area of relieve oneself malt .
malt grain is unsubdivided in concept . All it requires is for you to sprout some grain , let it grow just a little so the starch in the seed are converted to sugar via enzyme , then dry out it out .
To do this , I pressed all of my married woman ’s cooking tray into avail , cut through them all with damp grains and place the tray all over the kitchen counter . A couple of times a day , I had to wash away the grains by rinse off water through the trays carefully , then I ’d replace them on the countertops . In a workweek , we had sprouts everywhere . It was awesome … but Rachel really did n’t like not having any cooking trays or buffet space .
Fortunately , I knew I ’d be able to purchase her back with promises of gallons of beer .
Except Firehouse RUINED that plan !
to actually dry the malted , I took the trays of grains and fudge them on very down warmth in the oven until the footling sprouts were crispy dry , then roasted them at a little higher estrus until they were the mid - amber color I wanted for my beer . I then ground them in my trusty Corona grain mill into a overnice , fine malted .
From there I pursue most of the directions in the record book , waited an appropriate menstruum , rack off , bottled , etc …
… and got my boil onion brew .
Yeah , it ’s a lot easier to just buya square - up beermaking kit , but I ca n’t ever do anything the simple way . And Mr. Beer ISN’T proceed to be there for us during TEOTWAWKI !
If I was dedicate like Joel is , I ’d also do a tidy sum better . I ultimately made three batches of beer , include malt my own grains , and got one batch that was almost drinkable .
Maybe one day . And then I ’ll build a homemade kegerator . And get a deer head for the paries .
For now , though , I ’ll enjoy drinking Joel ’s beer .
