ever heard of beer glaze?

[watergirl]

and it's not what you think!

ok.. i'm a painter (theater - sets, backdrops)

and today for the first time, was introduced by my boss to "beer glaze."

take beer, I think she bought a 32 oz. budweiser or coors on the way in to work, and add dry pigment paint (just powdered color, like dye)... and then you brush it on, over a base coated thing (chair, wainscotting, whatever)... and let it dry, then you go back with a chopped up cheap brush and water, and drag through it, to make faux woodgrain.

very bizarre, and i had to smell cheap beer all day.

Just felt like sharing... I know this won't make much sense to anyone else... martha stewart, watch out! home decorating - with Beer Glaze!

 

[phrodeau]

Thanks for the post. I've done work like that, but never heard of beer glaze. I usually get by with flat latex & water (and the crappy brush).

 

[bknight2602]

Seems like a waste of beer to me.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I've worked on a few back drops but never with beer.

*exit stage left*

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

This threw me way the hell off...I thought we were going to start swapping recipes again!

 

[scylis]

Seems like a waste of beer to me.

Bud and Coors? i didn't know it was possible to waste yellow, fizzy, piss water.

 

[bknight2602]

Bud and Coors? i didn't know it was possible to waste yellow, fizzy, piss water.

LMAO.

 

[paganangel]

excellent, i actually needed to know this!

 

[watergirl]

woo hoo

Wow, my trivia is helpful to someone? Paganangel, you're quite welcome... Phrodeau, really? cool... if you want to know anything else about the beer glaze, i'm now moderately experienced with it... you have to seal it with shellac when you're done - a waterbased polyurethane will just dissolve it again, anything waterbased will make it all runny. So use shellac, but wear a respirator -no huffing paint fumes, kids!

everyone else - i was wrong... it wasn't bud. it was busch.

the first time, the boss used heinekin, but then she switched to the cheapo big bottle beers... it was kinda a fun technique, once i got the hang of the timing and delicacy.