Los Angeles Brewers

We bought a freezer from Lowes (after visiting Home Depot) that we had to return.  Somehow it suffered a crushed lid at the store. It was a real bummer to get it home only to have to drive the 20 miles back to return it.  They had no more so we ordered one from Sears ($30 more but color is black).

When we went to Sears with our “pick-up is ready” email, they said that they did not have any in stock.  Fortunately, some sucker had ordered the same one and had not picked it up in two months.  Sears gave us his.

We hooked it up to the controller to get it to maintain 68 degrees.  The fermenting temp for our first recipe.

We finished the pump wiring and ran into a small problem.  The enclosure’s solution for waterproofing the switches is the little levers that move the switches via a small two-pronged fork.  One of the forks is forked.  It does not align properly and we had to open the box to get our second pump to run.

We made a huge push to finish the brewing rig and attempt to whip up a batch of beer.  We made this platform for the pumps and chiller.