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    add-a-conry-lid

    here ya go. It is exactly what your talking about! John
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    Semi-automatic Bottling Line

    6 at a time.
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    Semi-automatic Bottling Line

    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...
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    Fermenting in a 55 gallon food grade plastic drum

    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.
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    Fermenting in a 55 gallon food grade plastic drum

    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...
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    55 gallon drum lid

    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...
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    100 gallons...

    This thread has gone from brewery envy to a debate on the safety of plastic? Hmmm
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    Working with copper is not to be underestimated...

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

    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...
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    100 gallons...

    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.
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    100 gallons...

    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.
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    100 gallons...

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

    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
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    Better Bottle blowoff tubes

    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.
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    HERMs Control Box Construction

    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.
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    I decided to start building a brewing system

    Yeah we have it over here. Not real common but more people are going with it as a "green energy" option. They call it Geothermal heating. If I ever get to build my dream Pro Brewery I am doing this!
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    Keggle conversions

    If you don't really want/can't spend the money on a new angle grinder, go down to HD or Lowes and rent one for a couple of hours for $4 and $4 for the cut off wheel. That's what I did. john
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    Remove and Save Beer Bottle Labels

    Oxyclean is your answer. I have yet to find any bottles that the label won't just slide off after a soak is HOT water with OC. You have to scrub a little on the bottle to get glue off the bottle but the label slides right off. Not fighting no tearing! Good Luck!! that will be badass! John
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    Help with mash tun sparge arm?

    the area that gets sparg water to come out isn't as important as keeping it above the grain bed. You just run your sparg until you collect all the wort that you are shooting for after that it's waste water. When you get close to your target collection, turn off the sparg and finish draining.
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    Help with mash tun sparge arm?

    I think it will be fine. The psi coming out of the house will be quite a bit higher than your brewing system. And as long as you keep the level of sparg above the grain bed it will be just fine. John
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