Another FNG

[Photomask]

FNG=Friggin' New Guy

I recently started brewing beer again after a 15 year hiatus. I used to brew back in the early 90s with a buddy while in the Air Force. Unfortunately, he was the one that knew how to do it and I was just helping and drinking beer.

A co-worker that knew about my fabrication skills approached me about building a rack for a brew-rig. He couldn't answer many of the questions I had, so I started doing research and I was hooked. I joined a local homebrewer's club and the first meeting is in January.

I'll be starting a brew-rig for myself in the next couple of months. I already have the kegs and a good selection of mild steel. I also have a large surplus of electrical components that I have scavenged off of equipment that was being, "decommissioned", at work....

 

[KopyKat]

Welcome fellow Texan. Here's to many great beers in your future -

 

[bohdan987]

FNG=Friggin' New Guy
I also have a large surplus of electrical components that I have scavenged off of equipment that was being, "decommissioned", at work....

nothing is better than a F-22 converted to a brew rig! i bet you, that you can boil 15g of water in 10 seconds flat, using those twin jet engines....

 

[Photomask]

Welcome fellow Texan. Here's to many great beers in your future -

Thanks. Strangely enough I work in Round Rock...

nothing is better than a F-22 converted to a brew rig! i bet you, that you can boil 15g of water in 10 seconds flat, using those twin jet engines....

That would be an interesting concept, but I retired from the Air Force a decade ago. For the last ten years I've been working as process equipment maintenance & engineering at a photomask plant. (A photomask is the master that is used to produce semiconductor chips. Most people don't know that and neither did I until ten years ago.) On the side, I do custom metal fabrication and am geared for woodwork and plastics as well.

 

[KopyKat]

Thanks. Strangely enough I work in Round Rock...

Yeah, I know. Toppan (I am sykick)

 

[Photomask]

Yeah, I know. Toppan (I am sykick)

I don't recognize da' sig line... Semiconductor industry too?

 

[david_42]

Welcome! You'll find the hobby has changed radically in 15 years. More suppliers, more yeasts, more specialty grains, nutcases with fully-automated half-barrel rigs, and last of all the Intertubes and HBT!

 

[Richabt]

Welcome!
A lot of folks here have similar stories about brewing a while back and just getting back into it. Much has changed, and all for the better.

 

[Photomask]

It's absolutely amazing how much more information, equipment and ingredients have become available in the last 15 years.

My middle daughter stopped by and brought me a HAZMAT Label to go on the brew-rig when I get it finished.:rockin:

 

[DragonTail]

Welcome

 

[KopyKat]

I don't recognize da' sig line... Semiconductor industry too?

No, trucking operations. Our company used to have a hot shot driver that picked up at Toppan and delivered to AMD and I used to dispatch it. Even did the late night run a few times myself when the driver was not available. (read already in his cups)