Precariously not beer-related so any mod can feel free to move it.I have saved some of my empty grain sacks (a Best Malz, a Weyermann, a Malteurop, a Canada Malting, a Rahr) thinking that I would do something with them. I had some of them just 'tacked' to the wall of my beer bunker but I wondered and rubbed my chin about having some of them framed to hang in the bar. These are not necessarily super-decorative pieces of art but they're certainly unique to brewing. Anyone done anything decorative with an empty sack of grain?
Has anyone decorated their bar/brewery with grain bags?
#1
Posted 02 November 2014 - 04:33 PM
#2
Posted 02 November 2014 - 04:47 PM
just like you i have them pinned up in my brew area. that's about it. i bet someone could make messenger bags or purses out of them that might be neat. maybe a hobby for mrs. ken? then you'll have to brew more
#3
Posted 02 November 2014 - 04:51 PM
I give them to my dad and he fills them with field corn in the fall. And that's a NO to the decoration idea as of yet.
#4
Posted 02 November 2014 - 05:12 PM
Precariously not beer-related so any mod can feel free to move it.I have saved some of my empty grain sacks (a Best Malz, a Weyermann, a Malteurop, a Canada Malting, a Rahr) thinking that I would do something with them. I had some of them just 'tacked' to the wall of my beer bunker but I wondered and rubbed my chin about having some of them framed to hang in the bar. These are not necessarily super-decorative pieces of art but they're certainly unique to brewing. Anyone done anything decorative with an empty sack of grain?
Yep. From your pics it looks like you have a really nice beer themed bar. I would think your idea of putting them in a frame and hanging them in the bar would fit right in. I say do it.
#5
Posted 02 November 2014 - 05:23 PM
you can always cut out the logo from the grain bag and frame that so that it is not so large.
#6
Posted 02 November 2014 - 05:28 PM
Right. I don't think I would want to frame the whole thing... it would be huge and expensive. Maybe slightly smaller like 20x15 or something so that it was smaller but not down to a 8.5 x 11. Could be cool, methinks.you can always cut out the logo from the grain bag and frame that so that it is not so large.
#7
Posted 02 November 2014 - 06:29 PM
Ken I've been saving my old bags for this idea.... I'm just not sure how I'm going to incorporate it.
I'll keep you posted.
#8
Posted 02 November 2014 - 06:55 PM
#9
Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:01 PM
#10
Posted 03 November 2014 - 06:29 AM
#11
Posted 03 November 2014 - 06:52 AM
I want to do this. Although since i'm tall, i would need to stitch 2 together.
#12
Posted 03 November 2014 - 07:03 AM
I want to do this. Although since i'm tall, i would need to stitch 2 together.
I keep trying to get my wife to make one of these for me.
#13
Posted 03 November 2014 - 09:09 AM
Huh... I had never thought of doing this. Damn you guys! I just threw away a couple of bags a few weeks ago (grain is stored in vittle vaults).
#14
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:25 AM
The only real strange one is that the text printing on the Rahr sack was not aligned with the logo printing so it's off. I think that I would have had them cut it and straighten it out if I had noticed it was like that. Otherwise, I think my attempt to "de-frat house" the bar area worked out well. The guy at the frame place said he thought the idea was really cool and that he had never framed "grain bag art" before. Cheers kids.
#15
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:28 AM
Looks sharp. I have a couple hanging up but really its just to cover concrete block wall in my beer dungeon, beer bunker, brewery.
#16
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:36 AM
#17
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:41 AM
The CCB brewpub is decorated in malt bags all over the damn place. I think they are quite ubiquitous in the brewing world.
#18
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:44 AM
Despite being in far too many brewpubs, breweries, etc., I'm not sure that I have seen many malt bags used as 'art'. When I first brought these in and they were laying on a big table, other employees would come by and go OH COOL! and pick them up, look at them, etc. I assumed most people wouldn't know what they were.The CCB brewpub is decorated in malt bags all over the damn place. I think they are quite ubiquitous in the brewing world.
#19
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:48 AM
They have them framed in as well, but about the whole bag. Probably 100 or more.
#20
Posted 17 March 2016 - 11:37 AM
Sweet. I bet it looks cool.They have them framed in as well, but about the whole bag. Probably 100 or more.
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