Recent content by Nwcw2001

here ya go. It is exactly what your talking about! John

6 at a time.

The brewery I worked at had that exact same setup. It had a CO2 line coming in the left hand side of the line and the beer coming down the middle, with a valve on the right hand side to release pressure and fill bottles. purge the bottles with the CO2 and then close the right hand valve to...

I filled them with hot water and oxyclean for a day or so and then gave it an iodaphor soak followed by a rinse and then fermenting wort.

It works like a dream!! I brewed 25 Gallons of my Belgian Dubbel and fermented in one of the 55 gallon plastic malt barrels you see at the HBS. Got mine for $30 from my HBS. I put a drain valve just above the rolled edge on the bottom and could drain fermented beer off the yeast cake no...

Here is how I did mine when I made an upright drum smoker. Take a angle grinder with a cut off wheel and go just under the lip and SLOWLY cut into the barrel. You will notice that you go through on layer and when you go all the way around the top will pop off and be a reusable lid. just do...

This thread has gone from brewery envy to a debate on the safety of plastic? Hmmm

If it wont kill you with your water supply in your home it's not going to kill you in your beer.

looking at opening a brewery in Washington State and again here in Colorado, every state is different. The TBB tends to bow down to the state's laws. Washington State is 400 ft from school, church, and house. Where here in Colorado, it is a little more lenient. I think it is still away from a...

as long as it complies with your state brewery laws and the TBB ok's the site you can brew professionally anywhere. All you have to do is go through all that paperwork.

Check out these guys. They are called Breaker Brewing Company. They are a commercial brewery brewing on a 3 vessel system all 55 gallon stainless barrels! Here are some Flikr pictures.

They posted on ProbBrewer.com as well, but pulled the add because they got a bit more time from the landlord.

Yes you can use this in a pro brewery. It doesn't need to certified. As long as you have food grade things you should be fine. Check out this nanobrewery they built their own

this may work for you. The LHBS I used to go to in Seattle used a bit of larger diameter rubber tubing to seal between the pvc and the carboy opening.

I believe the main reason for the NEMA is for the water proof aspect. No matter what you do to the wood it won't be as liquid resistant as the NEMA, and as much as you are going to spend on control components the idea of it zapping out because of liquid the NEMA just makes sense.