My Own Private Fermentarium

So, a couple months ago my wife actually encourage to convert one of our outbuildings into basically our own private British pub, along with a dedicated area for brewing. Suffice to say, I do anything she asks for now



Just finished laying down new vinyl flooring in the fermentarium and brewing room, which is basically an enclosed patio with sliding glass door. When brewing, I have the door all the way open with a fan running, just in case. I am gonna get a carbon monoxide sensor one of these days, just to be on the safe side.



The actual brew setup works wonderfully. I have a pump on order so I won't have to manually move sparge water to the hot water tank at the top, but besides that it's all gravity fed. There's a little video of it working at the bottom, since this is what it looks like when it is all put away.



So far I just have one tap working in the bar, but shortly I'll be getting two more and a couple of conical (plastic) fermenters. Not sure yet where they are gonna go, but I'll make room.



I now have proper tubing and better sparging equipment in place, but even in this video of the previous incarnation of this project it worked amazingly well.

Dancing Badger? You should move to Wisconsin.

Yup, the name comes from my wife who had a really, really weird dream the first time we were in Scotland. And yes, it was about dancing badgers

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers

Badger Badger Badger Badger!

JetSmooth said:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers

Badger Badger Badger Badger!

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OK, that's like 5 minutes of my life I would like to have back.

Oh come on, it's a classic

Ooooooooohhhhhh a snaaaaaaaaaaake

Great name! I've just been supping a pint of Badger brewery's Sussex ale in a country pub here in West Sussex in the south of england

JetSmooth said:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers

Badger Badger Badger Badger!

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The second I saw the dancing badger pic I immediately thought of that flash video...glad I'm not the only one who has seen it.

a mushroom, MUSHROOM

awesome

I gotta say, the DIY section here is quite dangerous. I keep seeing things and thinking to myself, 'Well, I could do that'

Love it! And that's coming from an actual Badger from Wisconsin

Hey another Eugene brewer!! I just got started, brewed my first batch 5/9. Good to see another local on this board


Go Ducks!!!

I will post a pic of the sign my wife just painted for me, but first it's off to home depot for more supplies. The biggest problem I forsee is cooling the area in the summer. It has two rooms with a total of ~270 square feet. Any innovative suggestions?

Eugene! Woot! I think Dancing Badger is a great name for a pub.

When is the pub warming party.

japhroaig said:

I will post a pic of the sign my wife just painted for me, but first it's off to home depot for more supplies. The biggest problem I forsee is cooling the area in the summer. It has two rooms with a total of ~270 square feet. Any innovative suggestions?

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You could almost get away with an 8000 btu air conditioning unit (12,000 to be safe) mounted on the wall. How good is the insulation in the building? I have a 6000 btu unit in my fermenting room but is half the size (minus the pub part )

Here is an image of the sign my wife painted.




One of my new conicals.

Beernip said:

You could almost get away with an 8000 btu air conditioning unit (12,000 to be safe) mounted on the wall. How good is the insulation in the building? I have a 6000 btu unit in my fermenting room but is half the size (minus the pub part )

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The insulation is pretty crappy, especially since it basically has one wall that's all glass. I think it would probably be insane to add an AC unit until I get that worked out, methinks.

The only part that really needs to be cooled is ~90 square feet, so I'm still on the fence about just mounting the conical in a temp controlled fridge, or cool the whole dang place. I can see advantages and disadvantages to both, but I have a couple months to decide before the gates of hell are unleashed.