July 13th, 2010
Just wanted to let you know that my name was approved by the State and I have formed Justice Brewing LLC for the purpose of starting a Nano-Brewery. I have been networking with the fine folks over at Foggy Noggin and 192 Brewing to get the scoop on how it’s been to open a small brewery. So far the consensus is about 2 years once you find a good location. But I’m hoping I can learn enough from their experiences to get it done in a decent time.
If you live in the area I suggest you take out some time some Saturday and visit the other Nano Breweries in the area, they make some damn good beer and I can’t want to share my creations with them.
The next order of business is to launch the website (JusticeBrewing.com) and then starting talking to a couple cities to get a feel on where I should spend my money.
Also, I am still working on the articles for the website that I mentioned below. I’ve been working swing shift and it just kills my creative process. But this should all be changing soon when I go to days. I love my job at Google, but I really wanna get this brewery stuff up and running! I have started concocting my “signature” beers for the brewery and I have two of them ready to go for production with about 5 more under consideration, including some sours beers, which I think we are seriously lacking in this state.
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May 26th, 2010
I’ve submitted the paperwork to the state to form an LLC with the purpose of starting a commerical nano-brewery. This is just the first step in many to be able to sell beer. I’m expecting the full process to take a year or more.
Wish me luck, I’ll keep posted on updates and how things go from here on out. Domains are registered already, hopefully the name I want goes through no problem, ran it through TESS and everything. So I’ll need to apply for a trademark as well.
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May 23rd, 2010
Hey everyone, I’ve landed a contract working at Google. Which means it’s back to the full time work force for me. Here are some things that I will be posting about that I’ve been working on the last month.
How to get custom bottle caps and a review of some custom caps I had made
Vintage Kegerator Rebuild – 75% Complete
Keg & Carboy Pressure Washer – 90% Complete
Review of Blichmann Conical Fermenter
Final Article on the build of my brew stand and some hints on things to come.
Also, Ads are going to be disabled soon until I get approval from the correct people, maybe the Ads will disappear forever.
I am going to disable the weekly twitter post, it’s just increasing the noise on the site. If you really want to know what I’m up to on a near daily basis you can just check out my twitter feed.
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May 16th, 2010
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April 10th, 2010
It’s pretty much finished. I mounted the pumps and built a splash shield for them. To mount everything I used a tap and die set to create threads in the steel frame for some 1/4″ screws.
After dinging up the paint I’ve come to the conclusion that this paint might not work the best. But even if it dings up it will still help in stopping rust which was my main concern with everything. Maybe down the line I’ll strip everything off and maybe have it anodized, but I think anymore money that I’m going to put in will be moving up to a single barrel (31 US Gallon) system. Which I have planned for in this stand, the middle burner will come out and I will move it back to the Blichmann stand with the leg extensions for the HLT. Then the boil kettle and mash tun will sit on the brew stand.
I’ll get some final pictures up in the next couple days, next Friday we are breaking it in with a double batch day. We will be making a Red Hook Blonde clone since they took the beer of the market we can’t get it anymore and the second batch will be a test batch of Mike’s wedding, we’ll be designing 3 beers to serve at his wedding.
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