I am a regular over at www.homebrewtalk.com and found this forum to be a great resource for everything related to the homebrewing hobby. I’ve been wanting to hack up my beverage cooler after the first use when I did the Arrogant Bastard Clone. Give it a bit of an overhaul so to speak. I found a great thread with vivid instructions on how to assemble your own mash tun, here are the results:

Tested with plain water (4 gallons for 3 hours) no leaks! May test with rice hulls or oatmeal flakes next.

 Brewing schedule for the Arrogant clone went something like this…

Brewed on 12/23/07

1 week in the primary

1 more week in primary with dry hopping addition

Bottled on 01/05/08

After one week in the bottle I cracked one open to test carbonation and see how the beer was coming along. Looking at this beer when bottling I thought that the color would be too light to be close to an Arrogant Bastard but once I opened the bottle it finished fairly dark and similiar to an Arrogant B. This recipe turned out great, a tiny bit bitter at the finish but this should mellow out with age in the bottles. I’m going to wait one more week before cracking open the next bottle, at that time I will compare it side by side with a bottle of Stone’s Arrogant Bastard Ale.