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Hey, just make sure you have a good solid seltzer recipe, you'll be fine... 🤮🤮🤮😉

Ok friends, sorry for the delay. My tankless water heaters are Navien NPE-240S.

Can't afford to upgrade my brewhouse yet. I can afford to work a twelve hour day to not run out of beer in the tasting room, = more money, = I can afford to upgrade my brewhouse sooner.

Yes, in 4 2bbl batches.

They are Navien and I think the model is NPE-180S. I will try to remember to check when I get there today. I only use those for my brewery water and my utility sink and keg washer. The tasting room has its own tank style water heater. These are set far too hot to use in the tasting room, and I...

They are really designed for hotels or bigger commercial situations. It was a no brainer for me because my direct fire HLT's took nearly 2 hours to bring the water to mash temp in the morning. Now I can mash in in the time it takes me to Mill. I don't treat my water at all. I've had no problems...

By using them in series, I can get the water to high 170s with a strong enough flow that I can rinse out my fermenters through the cip spray ball. They are set for 180, but I don't achieve that. But, I don't need to either.

Thanks! I've been running jacketed tanks from the start. Temperature control is key, and you will never truly know the joy of jacketed tanks until you set your ETC to 68 degrees and go home for the day after brewing knowing that you will walk in in the morning to exactly that. My glycol system...

I run two 2bbl systems with 3 "4bbl" fermenters. That way I can double batch into 1, or half batch specialty beers. I've outgrown them in 1 year. Taking delivery of two 8bbl Fermenters any day now. No distribution, just out of my taps and a couple of farmer's markets (woohoo NY Farm Brewery...

If you aren't already, join up on probrewer.com. It's an excellent resource for new and used equipment, and hundreds of people who were in your shoes at one point or another. Also, if all this stuff hasn't scared you off, research the people you are getting your equipment from. I got totally...

I second what Jaybird said. You don't know what you don't know, and that stuff is going to hold up everything/ cost more money. Every brewery owner I've ever talked to cited the "triple your time for startup and money investment" and it was absolutely true in our case as well.

Hey JA I went from Homebrewer to Brewery Co-Owner. It's been really amazing. One thing I definitely want to comment on here is... "Since we want to go back to being self-employed full-time, with our passion and experience, a brewpub is a natural fit. Question is; if we build it, will they...

The day my mom died, I needed to get things in order for me to leave town for a week. Mainly, I needed to brew the batch that I'd been putting off. I read .5oz of NY Nugget hops as 5oz. of hops, making my Bock have 247 ibu's as calculated by Beersmith. Then transferring the wort through my...

Yeah, I'm going to wrap it in sheet foam insulation and the lines in a pipe insulation to keep it cool. Blow off is a tube from a spare gas ball lock on a tube in a growler of water but first through the prv for high krausen. That's what I normally do when I ferment in the keg. I also trimmed...

Hey everyone! Just wanted to jump on and share my newest gear. Ok, so maybe the name is slightly misleading, as when you hear Uni-tank most of us automatically think Conical Fermenter that's pressure rated. Let's look at what I mean. Self contained vessel that I can ferment, condition...

I brew an excellent pumpkin beer. I start with a nut brown ale recipe that I've perfected, then add 3# of pumpkin to the boil for the last 40 min. No spice. Works best with pumpkin that you've roasted for two hours. Skinned and deseeded. Adds a beautiful mouth feel and roastiness to the beer...

HD3- just plug this setup into a GFCI

Nice build. I built something like this for a pump cart with two chuggers but with an outlet as opposed to direct wired. I used a two switch component (two switches in the footprint of an outlet) and an outlet in a two gang box. You can make the outlet so that each half is switched independent...