rlindsley
Member
Hello everybody,
I have been homebrewing for about a year. I have been an extract brewer up until a couple of months ago, when I went all-grain via brew in a bag. I definitely want to upgrade to the full HLT and Mash Tun but I'm not quite there yet. I'm still doing 5 gallon batches, but will be going to 10 gallon soon.
My brother-in-law asked me if I could brew the beer for his upcoming wedding (July 2013). He wants me to use a couple of my recipes (Honey Wheat beer and a Guinness-type stout) for the event. Here are some details:
- The wedding is at a vineyard/winery that his fiance owns. There will be a lot of 'wine people' there. So I want the quality of the beer to be high.
- He wants 2 full kegs of each type of beer (1 BBL of the Honey Wheat and one of the Stout).
- I am in Massachusetts and the wedding will be in New York (eastern Long Island). This is more of a logistics issue than anything, but wanted to throw that out there in case there's anything I need to think about.
So my question is, how am I going to scale up to a 1BBL system from my current 5 gallon system? Should I try to figure out a tenant brew scenario? Or would it make sense to do 6 5-gallon batches of each (which sounds like a nightmare to me)?
Assuming I can find a 1BBL brewing system to rent/use, what are other things I need to worry about? Assuming I can scale my recipes is there anything else I need to think about (i.e. hop utilization, etc)? My 5-gallon batches have been pretty delicious but I think I may want to do a test run of a larger batch prior to making the wedding beer.
Thanks in advance for your help on this! This is my first big brewing gig and I'm super excited.
Thanks!
Robert.
I have been homebrewing for about a year. I have been an extract brewer up until a couple of months ago, when I went all-grain via brew in a bag. I definitely want to upgrade to the full HLT and Mash Tun but I'm not quite there yet. I'm still doing 5 gallon batches, but will be going to 10 gallon soon.
My brother-in-law asked me if I could brew the beer for his upcoming wedding (July 2013). He wants me to use a couple of my recipes (Honey Wheat beer and a Guinness-type stout) for the event. Here are some details:
- The wedding is at a vineyard/winery that his fiance owns. There will be a lot of 'wine people' there. So I want the quality of the beer to be high.
- He wants 2 full kegs of each type of beer (1 BBL of the Honey Wheat and one of the Stout).
- I am in Massachusetts and the wedding will be in New York (eastern Long Island). This is more of a logistics issue than anything, but wanted to throw that out there in case there's anything I need to think about.
So my question is, how am I going to scale up to a 1BBL system from my current 5 gallon system? Should I try to figure out a tenant brew scenario? Or would it make sense to do 6 5-gallon batches of each (which sounds like a nightmare to me)?
Assuming I can find a 1BBL brewing system to rent/use, what are other things I need to worry about? Assuming I can scale my recipes is there anything else I need to think about (i.e. hop utilization, etc)? My 5-gallon batches have been pretty delicious but I think I may want to do a test run of a larger batch prior to making the wedding beer.
Thanks in advance for your help on this! This is my first big brewing gig and I'm super excited.
Thanks!
Robert.