200L Brewery (The new, NEW plan)

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Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by Kev888 » Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:20 pm

Am i radiating envy?? :mrgreen: Very nice indeed; my plans were already shelved once to make way for bigger ones, and now they look pathetic again compared to this! :roll:

I've got a tank like the small one you're using for the mash tun - though its the biggest one I've got and so for me will be the boiler. I was just going to leave it as is, but now i've seen yours I can't decide if i should take the top off. How are you finding them with no top - are they fairly rigid still?

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kev
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Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by shinyherms » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:58 pm

How was the test Brew? any news to report?

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:55 pm

Kev888 wrote: How are you finding them with no top - are they fairly rigid still?
cheers
kev
Yes they are still very rigid
shinyherms wrote:How was the test Brew? any news to report?
Unfortunately my weekend didn`t go as planned, so no test brew, i cant do one this weekend either as i`ve got to take
wife and daughter to airport tomorrow and there`s the small matter of Eng v Ger on sunday afternoon and i`ve got a few
things to do sunday morning, hopefully (fingers crossed) the weekend after will be the one :D

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:01 pm

Subsonic wrote:Looking good Haz! I have the same false bottoms which are dead cool :lol: One thing I would say to watch for is the heat from the burner ring. I have a similar setup to yours albeit only 50 litres :cry: . My pumps are a bit lower from the burner than yours and even so they were getting hot, I do have a high pressure burner mind. So It may be worth fitting a heat shield to the pump. Other than that, looks good! Don;t envy you emptying the mash tun, you should get some pigs for the spent grain lol Subsonic
The burner will actually almost sit up inside the tank as its got a 2" lip, but the heat was a concern, i was just gonna see how hot things started
to get on the trial runs, a heat shield though is easy enough to knock up.
Yeah the emptying of the Mash Tun is not something i`m looking forward to, i have a customer for all my spent hops and grain, its the getting it
out of the tanks though thats gonna prove difficult :(

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Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by Kev888 » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:18 pm

Thanks for that. Think its off with the top for me then :)

On emptying the MT - I've come across people using wet and dry hoovers to empty other things; not sure if there's one big enough for this but if you put some water in maybe a pump that can take solids may be possible? No idea if it'd actually work but it doesn't immediately seem stupid...

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Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:06 am

The guy at 3 Peaks Brewery in Settle as almost the same setup as me and he just digs it out until
he`s able to tip it on its side and shovels it out, he says it doesn`t take long, he just leaves it to drain
24hrs before removing the grain, so i was thinking along the same lines.

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 13/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:22 pm

Heres a few pics of the beer (Milk) Cooler, you cant gauge the size from the photos but it stands around 600mm tall
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leedsbrew

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by leedsbrew » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:34 pm

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:11 am

Well after all the time and effort converting the shed for the brewery i`ve decided its going to
be to impractical to brew in there, well i could brew its the storage i`m short of, so after talking it
over with the wife i`ve decided i need to rent a bigger place, and as luck would have it there is some
space on a local farm for rent, The old dairy,(not the one i aquired the cooler from this is a different farm)
I`m going to see if i can have it cheap for the first couple of weeks while i move in and set everything back up.

So because i`ve decided to move i`m not going to do any test brews in the shed i`m going to wait until i`ve moved.
The reason the storage is going to be a problem now is that i`ve had so much interest for the beer that i just could`nt
store the amount of kegs i`m going to need, and i havn`t even really tried to get my beer into that many pubs, they keep asking
me if they can stock it, i was approached again last week by 2 local pubs wanting it, so fingers crossed the renting of somewhere
bigger will prove to be the right move, i have enough money left from the brewery build to rent it for 6 months so that should be long
enough to see if its going towork out.

I just need a man with a van :D

Mattypower

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by Mattypower » Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:42 am

Looks similar to the one we use! we also use a deosan in line milk filter between the copper and heat exchanger!!

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:31 pm

Well i`ve just been down to check out the old dairy, its perfect :D
Just needs the walls re-whitewashing and its good to go, its water supply is from a spring and tastes really nice, maybe i should have
brought a sample home to test it.
Its £30 a week inc electric so not that bad, its got loads of storage to, plus i can store in the building next to it if i run out of room.
Just need to reapply to the local planning to see if its ok to brew there.

bigdave

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by bigdave » Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:15 pm

haz66 wrote: Its £30 a week inc electric so
Is that just until the farmer realises how much juice you need to pull off a 200ltr brew?!? :wink:

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:55 pm

bigdave wrote:
haz66 wrote: Its £30 a week inc electric so
Is that just until the farmer realises how much juice you need to pull off a 200ltr brew?!? :wink:
The new one is gas powered :( ,maybe i`ll install some big elements :D

Subsonic

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by Subsonic » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:36 pm

Might be off topic but planning is what I do for a living, I advise people like you. if you want a bit of freebie advice drop me a pm and I will e-mail you my details. There is a lot of legislation in place to allow farm diversification, if you know the right bits that will help you before you approach anyone at 'the council'. It needs planning permission by the way, but you probably knew that...! Subsonic.

haz66

Re: 200L Brewery (New Photos added 26/6/2010)

Post by haz66 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:19 pm

Subsonic wrote:Might be off topic but planning is what I do for a living, I advise people like you. if you want a bit of freebie advice drop me a pm and I will e-mail you my details. There is a lot of legislation in place to allow farm diversification, if you know the right bits that will help you before you approach anyone at 'the council'. It needs planning permission by the way, but you probably knew that...! Subsonic.
Nice one i`ll PM you

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