Ann Arbor Brewers Guild

Steve Darnell writes:

Over the weekend my son and I put together a motorized
malt mill. I’d been planning it since Jim Suchy gave me
a washing machine motor just before he left. The parts we
purchased cost less than $25 and it took about four hours
to make, with Ben’s help.

The motor is 1,729 rpms and we adjusted it with two sheaves
at 1.5″ and 8″ down to 324 rpm and attached it to my Schmidling
mill. It grinds a pound of grain in 6 seconds.

Im looking forward to brewing this week.

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Dan Jeska replied with a couple of photos: Steve, that looks very similar to the mill I have. I used an 1800 rpm
utility motor reduced down via the sheaves you mentioned to around 300
rpm. I have never heard of those wheels or pulleys referred to as
“sheaves”. You will be now be able to use your arm strength for
lifting fermenters instead of crushing grain!

The attached photos show my old creaky grain mill, as well as the
“Mother of All Grain Mills” built by my friend Steve Higdon.

Note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings.

The February brewers’ guild meeting will be held on February 8 at the home of Matt and René Greff. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features the Saison and Biere de Garde beer styles.

We have the AABG logo in a variety of formats. Members may download and use these logos to label beers, make name tags, meeting signs, and similar uses.

Largish B&W logo (595 x 595)	B&W AABG logo in Microsoft word (appx 220×200)
AABG Banner PDF
Color logo (large: 860×860)	Color logo (medium:180×180)
Color logo (small)	Adobe Illustrator logo

Matt Goebel writes:

The spot online where I bulk ordered the ugly, but cheaper,
vanilla beans is : http://www.comorosvanillabeans.com/specials.htm
and looks under specials for Grade B beans.

If you didn’t get a chance to taste his vanilla mead (18 beans in 1 gallon!) at the January 08 meeting, you missed an amazing flavor experience. It was flavored intensely of vanilla but not overwhelmingly so.

Recently, Steve Darnell, our stalwart newsletter editor, asked me whether he should continue to create maps for the web site, or whether we should just use the Google map. Clearly, there’s some work involved in making the map that is published in the newsletter, and in a slightly different form, online.

I didn’t know how to answer his question, and I probably shouldn’t answer it on your behalf. So, I’m asking you: Which map(s) do you find useful?

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The January meeting will be at Randy deBeauclair’s (the home of the BBBW) on Friday, January 11, starting at 7:30. Randys house is brown brick/tan siding, and at the top of a steep
driveway. Park in the driveway, (it is a bit steep), or on the street,
either side. You can read about how to get there and what to bring. or download the newsletter.

The December meeting will be at Rolf Wucherer’s on Friday Dec 14. We’re going to attempt a webcam hookup to the South Carolina annex during the meeting. Read all about it.

Jim and Wendy Suchy drove 800 miles from South Carolina. A bunch of us drove much less than that to the Corner Brewery on Friday for a warm, friendly get-together.

Jacob

Steve

Wendy & Jim chat with Matt

John and Roger

Jeff

Wendy

Nancy

Scott and Jim with ?

Denise and Mike

Jim

Wendy

Jim, Spencer, Wendy, Matt

Read about Crispy’s fire and a caution.

The November meeting will be held at Chris Frey’s on Friday, November 9, starting at 7:30. The featured style is Stout. See the November Newsletter for more details.