Wassup everyone!

I stumbled on this a while back and managed to get onboard the beta testers team. I have used it a while now and just today looks likes xobni.com has released it as a public beta. I must say that if you have to use Outlook then install xobni to get the full benefit of Outlook.

BTW - Xobni is just Inbox spelled backwards.

As of 4/18/2008 Snowbrain is officially been running for 5 years.
Not much to say, we started with 3 members and got up to and still have 5 members but with everyones lives changing (jobs/kids/hobbies) there is not as much time for blogging for everyone. So I would foresee most the activity this year being mostly from me. Which is fine as I know my other members still check in from time to time and leave comments as needed.
Heres to another year!!

Below are the previous links to celebrate this day:

• 4 Years Old - forgot to blog it last year
• 3 Years Old
• 2 Years Old
• One Year Old

Going back to my post on Sound/Smell proofing my cubicle the 1st bullet point is to turn your cell phones on vibrate mode. It seems most of the sales people in my office refuse to do this, but now I have determined that they are just to stupid to know how their phones work because most of these people still use the default ringtone that came with their phone. As of right now the T-mobile one is my least favorite. Everytime I hear it ring and it rings frequently, I am tempted to take the phone off the desk and whip it against the wall leaving a note with $100 saying go buy a new phone as this one broken, the ringtone wouldn’t stop playing jackass!!
Read the Manual next time.

Cartoon courtesy of RedPlanetCartoons

Its been a long time since I have posted. I came across this and figured I’d post it for everyone.

BACON COOKBOOK

Finally was able to purchase all the items needed to make my kegerator.
All the homebrew forums recommend using the Sanyo 4912M fridge which is available from Best Buy for $200 and with all the photos and tips there was no reason to doubt them. I must admit drilling a 3″ hole in the top of a brand new fridge is a little nerve racking but again with all the knowledge from the forums, I was glad I did all the research. Here are some pics:

Tower with Dual Taps

Inside Kegerator (2) five gallon Cornelius Kegs

Everything is working great!! A little work saves you a lot of money instead of buying one of these premade.

So I finally got all the needed equipment to convert my 70qt Coleman Extreme cooler into a Mash Tun.
Mash Tuns are used for All Grain brewing. So for a small budget I was able to build a nice piece of equipment to move myself into the next phase of homebrewing. All Grain recipes leave more to the imagination and creativity of what you want to brew.

Here are some pics:

70 qt Coleman Extreme Cooler

Valve

Copper Manifold (Slits on bottom of manifold allows the wort to strain though Mash)

Next project is convert a Keg into a Keggle (Boiling Kettle), this will allow me to make 10 gallon batches instead of 5 gallons.