Kegerator Conversion
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.
Mash Tun Conversion
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.
Quelque Chose clone….halfway home.
So tomorrow I’ll be brewing a Belgian Dubbel. Destined for blueberry’s. But since THAT beer isn’t my brainchild, what I am excited about is racking my clone into the secondary and adding #15 of tart cherries! In two weeks it should be ready and I’m sure it will sell out fast. Since I’m not drinking for a while best beleive I’ll be bottling a bit of this for next year;)
Nickelodeon Introduces Turbonick on Media Center for Windows Vista
…from the what-I’ve-been-up-to-for-the-last-6-months-dept…this one’s mine, boys!
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ —
Nickelodeon will offer its premiere interactive broadband video destination, TurboNick, as the premiere kids offering on the soon-to-debut Windows Vista platform, available to consumers on January 30. Nickelodeon’s TurboNick offers a unique interactive experience with the best of Nickelodeon programming and games. The TurboNick launch on Media Center for Windows Vista takes convergence to a new level as it will be the first time users can experience TurboNick with the click of a remote. TurboNick on Windows Vista is available for demonstration at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Happy New Year from JV
Happy New Year, folks! Here’s a good old fashioned tech post and update, SnowBrain style.
OK then, for 2007 here’s my first tech/dev post — here’s a link to Adobe Lab’s Apollo which, in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or so, happens to be a cool and interesting API for leveraging your webtastic dev talents to create desktop (yes, I said desktop) rich internet apps that run cross platform (yes, I said cross platform). This means that you will still have a place in society as a web developer/designer/geek when browsers finally collapse and fall into the sun, as we all hope and pray that they will. Head on over and sign up for the Beta now.
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OScar: the Open Source Car project
…OScar is not just a car. It is about new ways of mobility and the spreading of the Open Source idea in the real (physical) world…
Triple Boot a Mac?
Article here.
I guess my only thing with this is - why? Isn’t a user best served by only using one operating system - at max, two (with one of these being Linux)? And pardon me, but it’s my opinion that the average Mac user hasn’t the interest or inclination to run Linux OR Windows.* That’s what makes the Mac work - it’s simple, intuitive, and no-nonsense.
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