[Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So I came up with the idea of the rotating beer flight.
But one simple change, it comes apart. It becomes a component system of a top which different size holes for different types of glasses.
[Music] a column, different lengths, different designs, and a rotating base. From these three components, you can
make any selection of number of glasses, size of the glasses, whether it be 10, six for wine glasses, beer glasses, whatever. And you can mix match. You can make bases
that are like triangles, any design, whatever your imagination. bases that look like fish for shore resorts. Beer flights with six glasses. Everybody says beer
flights are four glasses, but there's no reason why you can't have one for six glasses. Bases that look like they're floating. Your imagination let you do anything you want with this. So, today we're going to make one out of pine. and uh we'll show
you how to do that. Okay, I've step one is I've taken some pine, plain pine wood, and uh uh planed it down to 38 of an inch approximately. I've got three blanks, which were the three components.
Two parts for the base and one part for the top. So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to need to find the center. So, we're going to draw some marks
and get the center of each one. Okay. So, once we get the center of each one, we're going to drill one hole in the base. We're going to go to over here.
[Music] We're just going to drill a hole in the center here and you'll see what that's used for. [Music] Now, I I made a jig
for cutting the holes. I'm going to use a 2-in hole saw. [Music] through there. And
uh there's a screw hole. And we're going to put this on here. tighten it. And there's marks on this board. You take it and align the first mark here. And then we're going to bring this up.
And we want to make sure that it's aligned so that it's equal on both sides. Now all we have to do is turn it on. Take the piece out. Loosen this
and rotate it to the next line. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay again.
[Music] [Music] Now we have the beginning of the top piece or four holes in it.
Then we want to cut the corners off. Okay, this is the marks I've set so that uh it'll cut the end off. And then we go to the second mark for this one like this.
[Music] Okay, now you've got the board with four holes in it. And we're going to take it and Let's [Music]
rout it. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music]
[Applause] [Music] And then we can run the edges. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat.
[Applause] part for this. Just want to sand this Um, I start with 80 and then we wind up with 220. That's about uh 120 in there right now. Um, this is basically a finished top
piece. Now we got to go make the base. The base has got a top and a bottom to it. First we can uh depending upon what you want to do. We're going to take this make uh the top
part of it with the corners cut off and the bottom one we're going to leave uh square. So let's go cut the corners off first. Cut the corners. [Music] [Music] Okay,
now we can round the edges on this one. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Okay. [Applause] Okay. Now, we need these lines cuz the lines are going to be used to line up
the lazy suit device. So, now we're going to go put the lazy susan device on it. [Music] So, we got to mark where the holes are going to go. [Music]
Okay, we're going to drill those out after we finish this part. Now, we're going to put [Music]
I bought these at Amazon. They uh seem to be the only place that I found anything that sells them. I've I've looked and looked. Um Amazon has lots of them. Sizes 3 in, 4 in,
uh up to six, I think, in lazy Susan. And they're fairly reasonable. Normally, this wood will all be varnished first, but since we're just uh showing how it's made, we're not going to do any varnishing. You can stain it
first or varnish it with clear lacquer, whatever your preference is. Okay, so now we're going to make a pilot hole here. [Music] [Music]
You take this, drill the four holes on this piece of wood where the lazy sus is going to go. [Music] [Music] Okay.
Now we got to take this over and uh do the corners on this one. One more hole we have to drill. And you'll see why. [Music] We got to drill a hole through here.
[Music] So, we can put the screws in. Turn it so that it lines up with the hole and
put a screw in. Turn to the next hole. Put a screw in. Next one. One more. Okay. Now we take that
and line it up with these holes here. Okay. So now we have the four screws coming through. So we take a washer nut. that on
[Music] nut. [Music] Okay. And then we tighten them.
Find the first one. [Music] Tighten it. Second one. [Music] Now you know why you need the hole. So
you can pack the screws. Okay, now you've got rotating base and a top. So we're going to take and first of all mark the center cuz we're
going to drill a hole. So they mark the center. [Music] Okay. Yeah. [Music] Okay.
And we're going to drill through both parts. Okay. Now, we have to be able to access the screw. So, we're going to make a a hole that you can put the tool in
to access the bolt. [Music] [Music] [Applause] on. And now we can put the screw in from the bottom
and access it. We'll go do that and put it together. [Music] columns. I start out with square piece of wood. It's just a 2 by two. Different lengths.
I put a cross on the top on the bottom so that I can put it in a lathe if I want to make it round like I did with that one. Or I can just cut the corners off. You have to drill a hole top and bottom. And you put a nutert in which
looks like this. And it screws in the hole. I put a little glue on it. And what it does, it accepts a/420 screw. So that way everything is standard. Top
hole, bottom hole. And um that's how you can put the pieces together. and different lengths depending upon the different type of glasses you got. This the length of the stem uh would have a different uh length piece of wood. This
one here I made. It's got some decorations on it. [Music] the little burn marks that's done on the
on the lathe and it's simply done with a piece of wire. You just burn it actually burn the wood with the piece of wire. [Music] Put this in here.
the bottom bolt. You can fit it right through here with the bigger hole. You can access it. Put that here. Now you got a rotating beer flight. Now that we've made the beer flight, we
got one last thing to do. We got to fill it with some beer. So, we're going to go to a brewery and we're going to see what it looks like actually being used. So, let's go have a beer now, everybody. Hi, we're back here again. Today, we're at Cypress Brewery in Edison to talk
about beer flights. This was the one that they used to make and I still believe that the ones that I'm going to make are going to be better. So, I first made one like this. Nobody liked it. Then I made one that rotated
and you had a right on a thing, but that wasn't liked either. Then we made a stationary one. Then we progressed to a template for a permanent one. Now we have a new one that I think is
going to be good. I'll show it to you. That's the new one. Simple, clean, easy to change the height of the column. All you got to do, turn it over, take out one bolt.
[Applause] Take the short screw out. Put a long screw in to all the column and screw the top back on. Now you got a tall one the same size.
And what I've done is I have taken plain wood and treated it. So with a a waist wash pen, you can write on it and then comes right off. I treated it with four
coats of gloss lacquer and then paste wax. Two coats of paste wax and it seems to work. I tried it. I put a mark on it and I left it overnight and it still came off with water. It washed right
off. So, it'll never be left on that long. People would complain that these strips over time that wood starts to chip and come apart. So, I had to come up with a better way of doing it.
So, I did some experimenting and I was able to make a ridable base. So handles are permanent. These other ones, there was a hole in the top. I've eliminated that by using
shorter screw nuts underneath. It's basically simple, clean. And I guess now I introduce you to Charles, the owner here of Cypress Brewery, and Jackie, the the boss.
Okay. introduce Charles, the owner and the brew master. And in the background is the boss, Jackie. Um, Charles is going to talk about his uh Cypress Brewing, his experience, and and what he does here. I am Charles. I
go by Charlie, though. And Cypress is uh 10 years old this year. We've been uh creating new beers almost weekly. I think after 10 years, we have about 370 beers, which is almost one new one a week. We uh started in 2014 as uh three
home brewers. We're down to two, but um we still uh we still do home brew from time to time. And some of our beer today, actually, we have two beers that are two of our original home brews from 15 years ago. So, uh we continue to keep
the old and come up with new. We're on the larger size of New Jersey breweries. We have a 40 barrel system, which is just about as big as they come in New Jersey. Um, we distribute all over the whole state down to Kate May County and as far north as it goes. We have been
distributing for about 7 years. I couldn't even tell you how many bars and restaurants we're in, but you can find us all over the state of New Jersey and sometimes in Pennsylvania and specifically Philadelphia. We um have capacity including outside up to 400 people at a
time. Inside just in the bar is only about 20 people. keep it small and intimate, but if you wanted to have an event here, we can do it inside outside and cover about 400 people. We are one of the only breweries open 7 days a week all year round. We are open 2 to 8 on
the weekdays and uh 12 to 11 on the weekends. So, Cypress Brewing is located at 30 Nixon Lane in Edison, New Jersey, right in the center of the state. So, I guess the only thing left is to uh say cheers and have a beer.
Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music]