I finished adding a detached 30'x30' garage with 12 foot clearance to the bottoms of the rafters on the inside. It's not insulated or heated, but it has power (and capacity for 220), and a cold water line to just outside it (that I could run in through the wall, just have to disconnect when done in winter).
Also, my family is interested in having me take the next steps to build a nice all-grain setup and see how it goes.
I'd like it to serve as closely as possible as a mini-professional setup, with the ability to closely control temperatures through mashes and fermentations, and work on better yeast cultivation, etc.
I have some nice items at my disposal (besides being allowed to use half the building). I have a glass cooktop from a fancy kitchen in a model home, never used, that I could install into it's own stand for cooking up yeast starters or other small things (standard 4 burner deal). I already own a kegorator, a standard immersion chiller (for 5gal) cornelius kegs, three 6 gallon carboys, brewing buckets, my trusty (and now rusty) turkey frier setup with huge base and stainless steel pot (someone goofed and had the setup on sale for $60 two days after turkey day years ago).
And most importantly, I have permission to spend a lot of money.
B3-2100? I showed the price with all but the "full professional" and "SS frame" options to the better half and she did not balk. :rockin: Not that I should get that one, but just nice to know that I have quite a long leash for this project.
I was thinking a sculpture of some sort (and floor space is something I have TONS of), standup freezers (w/ ranco's) with conical fermenters (has anyone used the plastic ones?), a counter space to set up basic lab equipment with a stir-plate and e-flasks, a fridge or freezer for extra ingredients (I grow a decent amount of hops as well)...
What about equipment to use C02 to push beer from fermenter to keg/bottle? Ways to hoist 15-20 gallons in a fermenter or do you just use the push to get it out? A large utility sink with a manifold so I can hook up hosing with a hand sprayer, a line to run to a counterflow chiller? Water filtration on the way in? Beer filtration on way out?
What am I forgetting? (don't worry about kegorator, it's rumored I may be able to gift mine to my brother later this year and build a new one).
What's the dream setup?
Also, my family is interested in having me take the next steps to build a nice all-grain setup and see how it goes.
I'd like it to serve as closely as possible as a mini-professional setup, with the ability to closely control temperatures through mashes and fermentations, and work on better yeast cultivation, etc.
I have some nice items at my disposal (besides being allowed to use half the building). I have a glass cooktop from a fancy kitchen in a model home, never used, that I could install into it's own stand for cooking up yeast starters or other small things (standard 4 burner deal). I already own a kegorator, a standard immersion chiller (for 5gal) cornelius kegs, three 6 gallon carboys, brewing buckets, my trusty (and now rusty) turkey frier setup with huge base and stainless steel pot (someone goofed and had the setup on sale for $60 two days after turkey day years ago).
And most importantly, I have permission to spend a lot of money.
B3-2100? I showed the price with all but the "full professional" and "SS frame" options to the better half and she did not balk. :rockin: Not that I should get that one, but just nice to know that I have quite a long leash for this project.
I was thinking a sculpture of some sort (and floor space is something I have TONS of), standup freezers (w/ ranco's) with conical fermenters (has anyone used the plastic ones?), a counter space to set up basic lab equipment with a stir-plate and e-flasks, a fridge or freezer for extra ingredients (I grow a decent amount of hops as well)...
What about equipment to use C02 to push beer from fermenter to keg/bottle? Ways to hoist 15-20 gallons in a fermenter or do you just use the push to get it out? A large utility sink with a manifold so I can hook up hosing with a hand sprayer, a line to run to a counterflow chiller? Water filtration on the way in? Beer filtration on way out?
What am I forgetting? (don't worry about kegorator, it's rumored I may be able to gift mine to my brother later this year and build a new one).
What's the dream setup?