• 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.

• Getting ready to go weld up the new brewstand! #
• Just got home from welding. The brewstand just needs a few things to weld still, then paint and casters. #
• RT @JJtweets: http://twitpic.com/1c2ofl – My Homebrewing roommate @RealNateMC is welding a brew stand in our garage. #
• Sitting at my parents waiting for dad to get home to investigate a pressure washer and compressor that needs fixing. #

Paint. That is all that I did today. 3 light coats of Chevrolet Engine Orange paint. Bright isn’t it? Why did I choose orange? I figured since I had to paint it for rust protection I might as well go with something that screams crazy. This is a big break from the norm for myself and paint. Both my vehicles are Black with white stripes (minus the Bajaj but that doesn’t count) and most of my paintings are based off of the “Nate MC Color Scheme” of Black, White, Light Grey, Dark Grey. I’m trying to step into some color for my beer stuff.

Latest update from UPS puts my Casters in Portland this afternoon with delivery still set for tomorrow. I’m going to give the paint about a week to cure and then I will put the burners back in and work on my gas manifold. I didn’t go with a gas beam like Lonnie Mac’s Brutus 10, because I’m using a much higher pressure (2-10psi vs the 2-4psi on Lonnie’s)