re: Anyone here do any kind of homebrew/ wine making

I'm going to watch S1 E5 of Twin Peaks now, I'll check in later. Thank you for the conversation thus far.

What happened here. wine only takes six weeks

Bottle or keg?

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Keg. Bottling is for people with time and better backs...

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I haven't brewed beer in a couple years, but when I left off, I had those 6 liter bottles, Tap-A-Draft, where you fill up three or four and cap them off with just a screw cap. Then there was the attachment where you get CO2 (food grade) cartriges and "force carbonate" the beer while chilled, give it 72 hours or so, the beer absorbs most of the co2, so you put in another cartridge to provide the force to pour it from the contraption. It worked pretty well as a "I don't want to bottle beer anymore but I'm not ready for a real keg system".

I do have a shitty old chest freezer I bought from a Mexican boy in Bogart years ago. I was perusing Craig's List for a chest freezer, I don't recall why. I emailed the seller and arranged for me to come pick it up. I showed up to the trailer around 4PM in a 1991 Oldsmobile station wagon with vinyl faux-wood side panels. The catalytic converter had been removed and a straight pipe exhaust put in. It really growled, and really hauled arse when it needed to. I couldn't tell which trailer I was supposed to go to, they weren't numbered. But I saw the one with a chest freezer on the front "porch".

I approached the domicile and a Hispanic boy about age 10 comes out, looks me up and down, I say I'm here for the freezer. He nods at me, closes the door. Opens the door and speaks perfect English "Do you have the money?".. I say "yes" and begin pulling out my wallet. He closes the door again. It's like some kind of drug deal, but more than a drug deal, more like a trafficking deal. Kid opens the door after I have the money in my hand, and his "mother" comes out, speaks no English, but is talking to the boy, instructing him something. The boy asks to see my money. I give him the $40. He gives it to the woman. She says more shite to him.

He says "Ok mister, the freezer is all cleaned out, we scrubbed it really good, you may still smell bleach in there. On the bottom, there's a thermostat to control the temperature, but the little indicator light doesn't work anymore, but I assure you it works. I'll help you carry it to your car."

He starts to try and pick it up by himself. I start to pick up the other side. His "mother" starts yelling at him, he starts yelling back at her. He says to me "My mother wants me to carry it by myself."

So I say ok, let's reposition it so you can carry it. During that process, I pick it up by myself and carry it to my busted arse station wagon.

You wouldn't think you could fit a chest freezer into a station wagon, but this was a big arse station wagon and the back seats fold down. The whole fricker got in there.

At the conclusion of the transaction, I turned for a handshake or nod of conclusion, and they had all retracted back into the trailer.

I cranked the engine and goosed the gas a little to keep it from stalling, as was customary, and the boy ran back out to the driveway with a $5 bill. The original Craig's List ad was actually $35, not $40. But I had lost sight of making change. But the sellers didn't. He gave me my $5. I told him to keep it. He said no. He refused.

So I drove this busted arse Oldsmobile station wagon with a busted arse chest freezer hanging out the back from Bogart to Winterville during rush hour, just in time to meet my wife in the driveway of our busted out rental house.

"Happy Valentine's Day!"

So I still have this chest freezer, it's in my basement near Grayson and I want to know how to transfigure this thing for kegging. Make it a "kegerator" so to speak. I understand there are thermostat things, and ways to do this, people make it look easy on youtube, but I fear things that look easy on the internet. What is your kegerator setup?