Monthly Archives: November 2006

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Build your own bar with kegerator

Having gotten into brewing my own beer in the past year I’d grown quite sick of having to bottle it all because of the time it requires to do it. Hanging out in the Northern Brewer forums I was amazed at some of the cool kegerators that the forum members had built themselves. The best thing about having your own kegerators is that instead of two hours of bottling it only takes about ten minutes to get your beer into a keg and then instead of waiting 3 week for it to naturally carbonate itself you can force carbonate your beer with co2 and have it ready to go in about five days or even less if you want.

The majority of kegerators that I had seen pictures of online were bare bones kegerators built for the sole purpose of dispensing beer. I had grander ideas. When Laura, who was my girlfriend at the time, purchased her house she had always said she’d like to have a bar for entertaining in the basement. I figured this was the perfect reason to combine our two wishes together. A bar for entertaining, with a kegerators built in for dispensing beer.

After a little research online I decided on a design in my head (drawings? plans? Hah!) and headed to Home Depot to purchase the base for what would someday become the Haraldson Family Brewpub

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The Gimp

It’s been awhile since I added a new bike to the stable, let alone a knobby tired one. I wasn’t really planning on it but a few things fell into place and the next you know I was putting together the pieces needed to build up a complete bike.

The company is On-One a British company that also makes Planet-X framesets (which I have also owned in the past).

Originally I had figured to just piece it together using stuff I had around the basement but after a member of a my cycling club posted up that he was selling his suspension fork grander ideas started to swirl through my head.  I emailed him an offer and he agreed and I picked up the next night.

I went to my friend Andy at REI to get a new set of rubber for the ride.  Oddly enough we are a distributor for the company that makes them but to get them would be a pain in the butt so a few extra bucks is worth the lack of headaches.

All in all I think the bike turned out about twenty times better than what I had envisioned it would be.  Looking forward to trying my hand at some small jumps and just rocking some urban rides next summer.

Who wants to take bets on how long it will be

Till my next comment?