You can find the recipe here.

Gaslamp Brewing Pint Glass

Etched on an Epilog engraver at Club Workshop.

Holiday Cookies

I followed a recipe on a bag of Andes mint chip things. They’ve got said mint chips, pecans, oats, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and an egg in them.

Don’t give me that look, I still made a thing.

Apfelwein

This is absolutely the easiest hooch you can make. Many thanks to EdWort for the recipe.

Ingredients:

5 gallons apple juice - make sure it’s 100% apple juice. Preservatives and yeast don’t play well together.

2 lbs sugar - Again, no preservatives. I use organic demerara sugar.

1 pack of Montrachet wine yeast - as far as ingredients go, this is the only thing you won’t be able to get at a grocery store. You can seek out your local homebrew shop or order online (I would recommend Northern Brewer).

Equipment:

Carboy - a 5 or 6 gallons vessel in which to ferment things. I’ve used both glass carboys and Better Bottles and I totally 100% recommend that you get the latter. They are light as hell and totally unbreakable.

Stopper - A plug for the top of the carboy.

Airlock - Lets gas out, doesn’t let dust and bugs in.

Funnel - a plain old funnel will do

Sanitizer - You will use StarSan. Don’t fear the foam.

Directions:

Add all the stuff together. Seriously, that’s pretty much it. After sanitizing the carboy, funnel, stopper and airlock, I pour in a gallon of juice, and then add some of the sugar. When you’re down to the last gallon of apple juice, pitch the yeast into the funnel and wash it all down with the rest of the apple juice.

Let the batch sit for about 4 weeks and then toss it into bottles. You can use old wine bottles, Grolsch-style flip-cap bottles, or get a capper and throw it in beer bottles (sanitize these as well before bottling). You can make this still, or sparkling by adding priming sugar when you bottle. It really does age well so try to resist drinking it all in the first month or anything. And it really will get you fucked up pretty easily, so split your bottles with good company.

Clothes Rack

Parts:

Steel Pipe, base flanges, 90º elbow joints. Paint.

Assembly:

We painted this at the same time as these. The method of assembly and mounting is the same as well. Adds some much needed color to that wall, especially now that angie has a bunch of clothes hanging on it.

The only downside of this is that our bricks are not finished and thus leave a lot of dust on anything that brushes up against them. I’m thinking we could sew up a drape-like piece of fabric and hang it from the two side posts so as to protect the clothes from getting dirty. It would add even more color to the wall as well.

Shelves

Parts:

Precut stair tops for the shelves. They’re perfect for the project since they are sized perfectly and have a nice beveled edge to give the project a polished look.

Steel pipes, base flanges and caps for the supports. Probably the most expensive part of the project. We bought all the pipes precut, but if you own - or know someone who owns - a pipe threader you could probably buy a long length for less than the precut sections.

Retention clips to clamp pipes to the shelves. Just to be sure they don’t slide around or fall off.

Paint and stain. Some green satin spray paint and a nice brown wood stain. No lacquer or anything so as to keep it simple.

Assembly:

This whole project was dead simple. We put together the supports and painted them assembled as a) they stood up on the base flanges which made them easier to paint and b) we didn’t want to paint the threads of the pipes and deal with the mess that might ensue from that. We let everything set and dry overnight and then got to mounting them. A masonry drill bit and my badass 18V DeWalt made short work of drilling the pilot holes. Tapped in some plastic anchors and mounted the supports. One thing we noticed quickly was that our brick faces were far from being a flat plane, so we had to space out some of the supports. I had some left over rubber sheet that we cut into small squares and put behind the base flanges to adjust the supports to be 90 degrees from the wall. Finally, we placed the shelves on the supports and locked them into place with the retention clips. Two hours of work total for a great looking set of shelves.