New brewery/bar room build

[Jonnyconga]

Rob - this is awesome! Love the brewery and the bar.
I've got a duster house log cabin too - mine's 3x4m though so a little smaller. At present its 75% 'shed stuff'. I plan on getting another (smaller) shed for those bits and fitting out the log cabin to be a proper brewery. You've inspired me to paint the inside too - yours looks great!
As grumpydev was I'm interested to know how you plan to get water to and from the brewery. Are you putting in a blue potable water plastic pipe? And what sort of diameter for drainage? My route back to the house drain isn't so easy.......
Also is your electrics cable (steel wire armoured I presume) buried deep? I did my own electrics (with the help of an electrician friend) but the swa is just on top of the soil (I figured it was much safer than a permanent extension lead....!)
Good luck with the rest of the build.

[themadhippy]

Also is your electrics cable (steel wire armoured I presume) buried deep? I did my own electrics (with the help of an electrician friend) but the swa is just on top of the soil

18" down is what the regs says ,with a layer of sand immediately above the cable,then marker tape before back filling,even if it is swa.

[Supercooper]

You can run it above ground high up on a Caternary wire. Which is basically a wire cable hung between the main house and the shed, with the armoured cable cable-tied to it.
All underground drainage needs to be in Orange upvc 100mm diameter or larger. You don't want to be putting the 1" 1/2 plastic waste pipes underground.

[themadhippy]

if your going caternary theres no need for swa,but you need to ensure the cable is uv resistant and the minimum height is 3 meters.

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Just seen this thread... Fantastic build, well done that man!

Wish you were my neighbour.

[rob-63]

Thanks Jonny & BB. Yes, will be using the blue pipe for the feed, and as superccoper has said the drainage will be 100mm pipe. I have to get around to digging the 13-14m long trench for all this sometime soon!
Until then I will be using the hose connected to the garden tap!

The electrics is supplied by some heavy duty swa cabla. It has a bit of a route from the house consumer unit … it runs down the outside wall, then is buried under a path and then into the garage (which is where the majority of the run in), then out from the garage wall with about a 1 metre run, above ground, and into the side of the cabin. This has all been part P certified.

Managed to do a water run test over the weekend, to see if the system was wall still in working order and no leaks, and to familiarise myself again with it all after the 6-7 month layoff - It all seemed to work well! I would have possibly done a brew, but the yeast I'm trying to rouse after 10 months on a slant seems to be struggling so will have to order some and do a proper brew this coming weekend.

Sparging during test


Control panel set to heat HLT to 65C


Still no hood fitted, but the extractor seemed to do a good gob of sucking up the steam and I didn’t notice any condensation, although I did only boil for 10 minutes.


And on the bar side, the sliding dartboor door has been finished!

[Rhodesy]

That is looking superb Rob!

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Probably the best brewery/bar combo I've ever seen on any forum anywhere!!

BB

[Jonnyconga]

Thanks Jonny and the madhippy - an overhead wire might be the solution - I'd never thought of that!
(Sorry rob, not trying to hijack the thread..)
Rob - you said you got the control unit made for you - looks amazing - is it from the Electric brewery in the states or something similar?

[Hogarth]

… the sliding dartboor door has been finished!

Not quite. You still have to perforate it with hundreds of 1mm holes.

Cracking brewery, Rob. You'll be the most popular man in Northamptonshire.

[rob-63]

Thanks Jonny and the madhippy - an overhead wire might be the solution - I'd never thought of that!
(Sorry rob, not trying to hijack the thread..)
Rob - you said you got the control unit made for you - looks amazing - is it from the Electric brewery in the states or something similar?

The control panel is pretty much a rip off of the Electric Brewery one, with just a few slight differences and some different components, but I did make it myself.

[rob-63]

… the sliding dartboor door has been finished! [/qoute]

Not quite. You still have to perforate it with hundreds of 1mm holes.

Cracking brewery, Rob. You'll be the most popular man in Northamptonshire.

Thanks.... And the sister in law started on the perforation process yesterday!

[Dave S]

A truly inspiring build, well done

[leon103]

WAW. It looks amazing. Spurred me on to build my own. Now just to convince the wife....

[MarkA]

This is brilliant!! I'd need to move to a bigger house to fit something like this in. Hmmm....