Well I'd love to post some pictures but I keep hitting some sort of spam flagging bc of the embedded pics
Christmas present from my folks. 3 trays each hold 4 bottles horizontally, plus shelves for extra storage. The two drawers hold cans, and the top bin holds glasswear including a stemware rack. (Ignore the dog food all over the floor, my pup is still learning how to dog.)
Scored a huge Harp Mirror for $40 CAD (for my american friends, that's approximately 2 dollars ) so had to expand a bit!
I said it was under revision... lol. The shelves came with the house. The previous owner built them to store his home brew. Why you eould build MDF shelves in a bomb shelter is beyond me.
Finally finished my chest freezer cleaning this week, added a temperature probe and rescued my cellar from the horrors of the hall closet. My daughter assisted with the counting and sorting. Happy with the cellar. Corked beers lay down up top, most because even the stubbiest 12 oz. bottles are still too small for the trays. Temperature probe is set at 52 and seems to be properly functioning.
Moved into a new house, inherited a big fridge ... although i didn't realize this picture sucks as much as i did until i tried to post it... enjoy my craptastic photos! Craptastic as in - you can't see the bottom shelf, which is full of barleywine and stouts. 20160314_171210 by Noah Scott, on Flickr 20160314_171205 by Noah Scott, on Flickr
Finally got hold of some good shelving units for my cellar. Gotta put them together and start sorting out my 40-odd boxes of beer / bottles. Can someone throw up a link to instructions to post pics? I thought I had that saved somewhere but can't seem to find it.
Pretty easy, upload your pictures on a host site like tinypic, they'll give you a direct link for the image. Come back here, under the commenting, there's a button for images that and paste your link
edit.. here are some better shots 20160316_201242 by Noah Scott, on Flickr 20160316_201246 by Noah Scott, on Flickr 20160316_201253 by Noah Scott, on Flickr 20160316_201318 by Noah Scott, on Flickr 20160316_201339 by Noah Scott, on Flickr and some sours of mine tucked away 20160316_201351 by Noah Scott, on Flickr
So I may have mentioned I moved a year and some ago into a new place, and of course my beer collection came with. I finally got around to getting shelving and organizing my beer. Homebrew and commercial I got the shelving built and things organized. I also hung a curtain over the alcove to make sure it stays nice and dark, though I have the light in there for when I need it. The alcove stays nice and cool - I keep the unfinished part of the basement at 55 degrees, though it may trend a bit north of that in the heat of the summer, it still stays well cooler than the rest of the house down there. Most of my homebrew equipment will also live there, I plan to build my brewery just outside, when I get the electric run, I'll be using induction burners for now, and we'll see if I got higher tech than that. It's amazing when organizing, how much I forgot I had, and things I found that I thought I had maybe one, that I have 2 or more, like the '09 Bourbon County bomber, I thought I just had one, I have 2, and so forth.
Hey man, I'm in the market for shelving as I'm closing on my first house, and i'm digging those shelves. Can you tell me the brand/model/whatever? Thanks.
The brand is called Muscle Rack. I got them at Target, oddly enough - they were on a half-off clearance. I've seen similar ones at Home Depot or Lowes, they're basically angle iron, with the shelves that notch in. The shelves are particle board. At some point when that craps out I'll replace it with 1/2" plywood or some such. They're rated for 3000 lbs each weight handling.
I got similar shelves then went to home depot and had thick plywood cut to size to replace the cheap particle board. They did all the work and I think it was less then $50
When did you two buy the shelves? The reviews are a bit sketchy, it appears the quality diminished over the last year or so. I'm really debating between these shelves and the wire style.
6 months ago from Menards (any big box should have them). I have had no issues with them besides the cheap particle board, which I replaced right away. The shelf itself is very solid and holds a lot of weight
I got mine a few weeks ago - end of March maybe? I don't know if quality is better or worse, but the metal seems fine, and though the wooden sheves themselves aren't the best material, they'll work for now, and like I said, at some point I'll replace it with plywood. I will keep tabs on the slelves, especially the lower ones in back, I presume those will be the first to dry or rot out.
Have 30 other bottles not in here, but would prefer to only have enough to stock this at any given time. Does a great job at maintaining steady temp without any kind of regulator
I'm new to stocking up and actually cellaring beers. I live in central Florida so having an awesome basement set up is out of the question here. So I search and settle for this. After putting just a few in there I knew I needed to come up with a better plan because this isn't goin to cut it
haha. I had a probe in it to get some temp readings the first few days of operating the new refrigerator. I've since switched to a digital and hidden it in the back.
I'm new to cellaring. In the past, beer never made it that long. So I have seen a lot of folks keeping the beer on shelves out in the light. I have all of mine tucked away in boxes or brown paper sacks to keep the light out. Is this not as much of a concern as I am making it out to be?
A lot of people have it out in the light so you can see the beers in the photo. I imagine a majority of the time the room is dark. At least that is what I've assumed
Make your own. I made mine using some good pine. It is nicer and cheaper than most anything you can buy.
Better part of a weekend. I got 1x12 pine from my local wood supplier. Started on a Saturday and was staining it on Sunday. Put it together with screws and then glued the front trim on. I used L brackets to anchor it to the concrete wall. It is not going anywhere and materials were less than $100 to make it
Good thing it was so cheap, because I used the money I saved and a ton more to turn it into this I have since built another shelf out of scrap wood to hold all my homebrew stuff. It is not quite as cluttered now...
