Membership questions? Log in issues? Email info@brewersassociation.org

Author Topic: Making your own barrel  (Read 3868 times)

Offline deadpoetic0077

  • Assistant Brewer
  • ***
  • Posts: 209
  • Noobie
Making your own barrel
« on: April 08, 2017, 07:22:28 am »
I was considering making my own barrel. I could conceivable easily make a barrel, that's not exactly a barrel. The only difference I could see is there's no bulge in the middle, which from what I can understand, is not a big deal since the bulge is primarily to make it easier to rotate when moving it. By cutting several straight staves, I could angle the sides all at 15ish degrees to make one large 24 sided wooden cylinder. Think this would work if I could somehow seal the inside? I could probably torch the inside myself too, id just have to do more research on that.

Thoughts?

Offline el_capitan

  • Brewer
  • ****
  • Posts: 491
Re: Making your own barrel
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2017, 06:19:23 pm »
I've seen an Instructable on making a wooden beer stein.  I don't see why it wouldn't work on a bigger scale. 

Here's a couple links:

http://www.instructables.com/id/wooden-beer-mug/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Viking-beer-mug-no-power-tools-no-tools-at-all/