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.

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.

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.

• Internet is down. It's Comcastic! #
• Bored. I need to work on correcting my sleep schedule back to "day walker" #
• It's bad when I load up AP Mobile and there are 4 stories about Ken Griffey Jr sleeping during a game. What important news! #
• Neighbor's teen was hacking at lawn with fake sword shouting "I will slay you" I yelled out the window that he should try mowing it instead. #
• He then went back inside. Their lawn is full of 1 foot and taller weeds. #
• http://twitpic.com/1n9bb7 Keg washer! So much easier! #
• It's NDA time of the year again. #
• Spark plug time! http://twitpic.com/1nlaat #
• Bought a pump today to build my keg and Carboy washer. Will probably build later this week, I am in dire need of new shoes first. #

• Got the door off and the masking ready on the kegerator project. Tomorrow another sand pass and then primer. #
• Primer is done on the kegerator. http://twitpic.com/1l1134 #
• Sticking with this weeks tradition of cutting myself without knowing it until I find blood on something. #
• Tomorrow I try and seek out a new seal and some paint for the kegerator. #
• I'm off to sign papers to work at google today. Project starts sometime
  next month. Feels good to be wanted. #
• Oh Bellevue how I don't miss your traffic and parking #
• Good to see elections are going about as smoothly in the UK as they were around here in the US. #
• Spending the night trolling my republican facebook friends with lemon party links #

• My unemployment runs out this week. What extension? They claim to be helping people but I didn't see any help. Lucky I save for rainy days. #
• Nothing better than spending a day in the garage working on projects. Tomorrow I try and find a job like i do every week. Getting depressing #
• Fuck yeah. Interview at Google tomorrow. Same with my brother. #
• Georgetown brew is releasing their Belgian dubble today, limited run. They call it Donkey Deaux #
• Nailed the interview. #
• Just got done cleaning up. Hope everyone had a successful Big Brew Day. Our stout finished boil with 1.060 SG right where we wanted it. #

• Tried the Pike Dry Wit and spent some time talking Vespa with Charles and Rose Finkel at the Northwest Food Show. Shoulda asked for a job. #
• On the hunt for a suitable freezer to build a fermentation chamber with. Think I found the winner, now to negotiate a price. #
• Had one of those, can't believe I just did that from a phone moments. Logged in and did admin work. Wouldn't have believed it 10 years ago #
• Never thought I would see a bar charge $9 for a hot dog. Thanks Ballard Loft for making it exist. Oh but it's 1/4lb ooohhhh #
• Drinking what you brew. Tough life. http://twitpic.com/1hycbs #
• Killing time until hops and props. Two movies I wanted to watch on netflix instant have been unavailable for over a week now, how is that? #
• Hops and props 2010 is over http://twitpic.com/1ia393 #

• Netflix watch instantly is down. I am reminded of the downsides of streaming services and DRM. Relying on someone else is never a good idea. #
• That's it. Deleting foursquare from my phone. #
• Aww yeah got my new tire on the Vespa and tomorrow's forecast is sunny and 64. Maybe keg cleaning will wait until the predicted rain Thrs. #
• Was told by @jjtweets that I'm his alarm if he sleeps past 11. Thanks to my allergy induced coughing and nose snot every morning. #
• After a quick inventory. Beer out numbers food in the house at least 3:1 maybe closer to 4:1. Must buy groceries to bring ratio down. #
• Double batch day done in 8 hours. We made an APA and a Blonde and Mike B. got a new name. "All the hops Mike" for the hop induced boil over. #
• Hey @papjohns STOP spamming my phone with 2 picture messages and 2 texts all within 10 minutes. I'm definately not ordering from you now. #
• Hey @papajohns STOP spamming my phone with 2 picture messages and 2 texts all within 10 minutes. I'm definately not ordering from you now. #
• I heard you won't release all TED talks because of lack of money for editing. How about releasing the raw footage… http://post.ly/OAgd #
• http://twitpic.com/1gedl4 see @papajohns I bought Little Caesar's today instead of you because of your spamming text messages #

• Sorry fellow Seattelites but Lunchbox Labs' Smoker with sweet potato fries beats Red Mill anyday. Even Red Robin > Red Mill #
• Scores are back from the cascade cup. All my beers ranged from good to very good, missing excellent by 1 point. now know what I need to fix #
• Joined the cascade brewers guild and applied for a job at Red Hook today. #
• Got my hops today from hopsdirect.com and started keeping inventory in Beer Alchemy will start adding recipes soon #

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.