Basement Brewing

Since I replaced our ancient cooktop with a glass cooktop I have forbidden Dan to brew beer on it. Brewing beer is a messy (but fun!) business. And since there is a lot of sugar involved and sugar is very very bad for glass cooktops. I nixed it. However, I have been working hard on turning a part of the basement into his brew area. It is starting to come along nicely, but is definitely taking longer than I anticipated. Our basement is unfinished but already had a cozy area to turn into a beer area. Mostly because there was already a deep sink there. I also want to replace the old nearby water heater with a vent-less gas water heater, which would free up enough electric for all the boiling that is involved in beer making. Anyway, I started painting last night and the sink turned out pretty well (in my opinion anyway). The exterior is a semi gloss orange (that Dan picked out) and the interior of the sink is now white enamel. looks waaaay better than it did. Unfortunately there are no "before" pictures, but here is an after picture :)

The list of things that have been done so far: 

- replaced plumbing to and from the sink (everything was frozen up and the lead pipe from the sink fell off when I touched it) 

-added wood trim around window (it was just insulation packed in around the new window which was smaller than the original) 

-painted the copper pipe to the sink white and touched up the wall behind the sink white
-painted the outside of the sink orange
-painted the inside of the sink with kitchen/bath white enamel ( it was just plain cement)
-cleaned the window (it was so dirty you couldn't see through it)

Still to do:

- panel ceiling
- paint floor white
- put curtains on window
- add a heat source for boiling
- finish blocking off the back of the steps and paint


Basically beer making needs to be in a very sterile environment so it needs to look clean, be clean, and be easy to clean.

More to come I'm sure!