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Just wanted to show off my bar and brewery.
Spent a bit of time building then living in it so I'm a bit like a kid at christmas (a drunken one)

Here's the brewery



and here's the bar









and here's the brewery in action




It won't make 400lts, but I'm kind of happy about that

Awesome bar
Whats the bike?
Cheers

Triumph Bonnie.

For some reason the pics aren't displaying for me but they are on this site
http://www.homebrewdownunder.com/index. ... icseen#new

Looks great! Maybe a flooded front in years to come?

Awesome setup Tipsy, all the best ingredients covered, Poker , beer , bar , cumfy couch etc.. now all i need to know is what time to show up!!

A few shots of my bar, brewery is to come (my phone is painful to transfer photos from.)

Whole keggerator:


Jaws open:


Belly of the beast:


Celli taps:


EDIT: Excuse the poor quality and the fact that one of the pics didn't align itself correctly after I set it to. Oh, looks like the pics are clipped on the right-hand side. Heading to the photobucket account that they're from may give you a better idea.

awesome bar Tipsy!

i'd like some more information on that calender on the wall please

nice bike, a fella at work has a bonneville.. immaculate!

DROOL...

any +1 to the reqest for more info on the calendar...

chadjaja wrote:Looks great! Maybe a flooded front in years to come?

If the missus new you were putting these ideas in my head

lethaldog wrote:Awesome setup Tipsy, all the best ingredients covered, Poker , beer , bar , cumfy couch etc.. now all i need to know is what time to show up!!

Always open....with the exception of hangover days

RUM57L wrote:i'd like some more information on that calender on the wall please

It shows 12 months from January to December......that's what you meant right?

bullfrog wrote:EDIT: Excuse the poor quality and the fact that one of the pics didn't align itself correctly after I set it to. Oh, looks like the pics are clipped on the right-hand side. Heading to the photobucket account that they're from may give you a better idea.

That's what was happening to me. They worked alright on another forum though.

awsome set up tipsy.just what every man needs.cant wait to start on something similar for myself.

I'm always a little envious of blokes like you with a full kegging set up.
However, being retired, and having to live on our own resources does limit the budget to a degree.

Mrs warra is most unlikely to agree to enable me to spend up for a full keg set up, so I'll have to happily keep bottling.
I actually quite enjoy the process, so it's not like it's hard labour.

Warra, old son, I got out of the entire kegging caper at about $1,500, all up. That was with a brand new chest-freezer, too. Not too expensive, considering that it was about $550 for the freezer and I made sure I got the best taps and best regulator I could find -- also bought my gas bottle outright, adding about $350 to the total. Also including the cost of 8 kegs into that total, as well. If you wanted to go for a 2-tap system in a second-hand fridge with a smaller regulator, a smaller manifold and a normal rented gas bottle, then you could be shot of it all for around $600. In my eyes, certainly pays for itself when you consider the time that goes into bottling!

Maybe ask the kids for the bits and pieces for Christmas...?

yeah I started out with a $50 ebay freezer. I got a starter pack from kegsonline who have xmas and fathers day specials and think I paid about $280 for a reg, tap, lines, connects, 2 kegs etc etc. Although with the aussie dollar now you can buy a reg on ebay for $40, keg for $50, party tap $5, connects $20 and stick it all in a used fridge or freezer with a $50 tempmate. Bit by bit over time you could get going

That saves washing a stack of bottles to start with and then you just split the gas lines, add another $5 tap and $50 keg as you go from there.

My keezer is all finished now with 4 new perlick taps on it and all I may do in the future is a gas manifold but its not paramount.

I bottled a batch this weekend for a mate using stubbies and all that washing wasn't much fun. It was bottled from the keg though so it was crystal clear, cold, carbed and no sediment ready to drink

I've got some excess gear too I think and I'd happily send you some stuff like plastic party taps, splitters, line etc etc for nothing to say thanks for your help over time here that is much appreciated.

Guys, I appreciate the sentiments and offers, but the reality is kegging won't happen for me, as nice as it would be.
I'm actually quite happy to bottle, because I only get through a 23 litre batch every 3 to 4 weeks.
I use mostly longnecks, and I have more than enough of them to meet all my needs. They're all clean and only need a quick spray with a no rinse sanitiser before bottling. The whole process is over and done with well inside a couple of hours. I'm retired so time is not that much of a presssing issue! There's also something satisfying about seeing 30 longnecks lined up after a bottling session.
In fact, one of my jobs for today is to bottle a batch of Pilsner.

SuperBroo wrote:any +1 to the reqest for more info on the calendar...

You guys know they have photographs of ladies without their clothes on on the internet now, right?

You guys know they have photographs of ladies without their clothes on on the internet now, right?

Besides this forum I thought that was the only purpose of the internet?

^^^^ this post deserves a 'like'!!!