Projects
Mixing Valve: Projects
Achieve a precise water temperature for mashing in or lautering by building a mixing valve.
Build a Burner Igniter: Projects
Build a simple electrode to spark your burner.
Bottle Filling Station
Take your bottling process to the next level
Tap Cleaning System
Clean multiple beer lines in a fraction of the time. The best technique for cleaning beer lines utilizes a submersible pump to push the cleaning fluid through your taps and beer lines.
Build a Multiple-Bottle Filler
A full 5-gallon (19-L) batch of homebrew requires filling 53 12-oz. (355 mL) bottles. What if you could fill more than one bottle at a time?
Build a Hop Bine Wreath
Rather than becoming landfill fodder, those withered dry hop bines can be recycled into a center of attention for the coming holiday season when they are formed into wreaths that welcome visitors into your homebrewery.
Build a Carboy Cleaner
One of my two Kiwi sons-in-law, Luke, got me started in homebrewing when he and my daughter were here for an extended visit. When they returned to New Zealand, I found that
Build a Beer Engine: Projects
Move your brew without CO2? Now you can, too, if you build your own beer engine.
Build an Indoor Vent Hood
A repurposed large mixing bowl is used as the hood on this vent build optimal for brewing indoors.
Barcodes for Your Homebrew
This column is going to be about how to make barcodes for your beers and make it easy for people to rate your beers on Untappd, it should be noted that you can use different styles of barcodes to go to a specific website, which is good if you want to use something instead of Untappd, promote your homebrew club, or maybe for a homebrew competition advertisement.
Build an Open Fermenter: Projects
Buckets and carboys are the most common homebrew fermenters. For those open to experimentation, however, we present our open fermenter project, in which we prove it’s hip to be square.
Build a Custom Beer Fridge
We loved the look of old antique freezers and ice boxes, so we created specs to design and build a fermentation beer fridge that had that aesthetic. Here’s our step-by-step process of framing, building, insulating, and wiring. You can follow the specifications of this project exactly and build your own fridge of this size — or — you can use this story as an inspiration to build something uniquely suited to the space and equipment in your homebrewery
