My Electric Brewery Build!

I would think if you are going for style points a tile back splash type arrangement would be very cool. However it will sure cost more than some water resistant drywall (blueboard or purple depending on brand) with a couple coats of a high gloss paint on it.

Unless you are a real bull in the china shop I would think you wouldn't be smacking into the back wall with your pots.

CidahMastah said:

I would think if you are going for style points a tile back splash type arrangement would be very cool. However it will sure cost more than some water resistant drywall (blueboard or purple depending on brand) with a couple coats of a high gloss paint on it.

Unless you are a real bull in the china shop I would think you wouldn't be smacking into the back wall with your pots.

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Haha, I should be fine with just drywall. I'm usually particular about the care of all my equipment so I don't plan on slamming into the back board, .

I consider this phase 1 of a basement renovation. So althought style points are appealing I think for the back I'm going to go with cheap and easy.

Based on suggestions I'm going to go with the drywall and high gloss paint behind the kettles. Behind and to the side of the sink might be a little trickier. I didn't original plan to put anything up aside from some pegboard so now I'm not sure how I would protect behind the sink unless I re-plumbed it....

I am with you. While somethings are very cool for style points (shiny pots, control panels with all kinds of lights and switches)... Some parts of the brewery get the basic approach. And you know what? That approach still works.

CidahMastah said:

I am with you. While somethings are very cool for style points (shiny pots, control panels with all kinds of lights and switches)... Some parts of the brewery get the basic approach. And you know what? That approach still works.

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A lot lighter on the wallet as well, !

So how would you guys put up a sheet of drywall behind the kettles?

Would you cut the vapor barrier, install a few studs to the wall within the cutouts, place the drywall on the studs, then paint?

I'm all ears, I'm learning a lot as I go here...

Just realized that there weren't any studs, rather cement block behind the vapor barrier. If it were me I would leave the vapor barrier as is (unless you want to cut a slit for each vertical stud and the top and sole plates).

Box out your desired frame size using the floor joists to fasten in a top plate and use pressure treated for your sole plate (or they sell these deck building 1'x4'' dense plastic plates you can use to keep the sole plate studs off the floor so they don't get wet and rot).

You could anchor in your sole plate but honestly this is a wall for show, so I would just cut the vertical studs a 1/16-1/8 long and pound them in. This will pinch in the framework to the floor without actually having to anchor it in. If you go this route I would use screws to put in the drywall (I am a screw over nail guy myself). I say that because if you pound on the studs to put nails in you might cause the wall to travel back slightly.

I would go with two horizontal laid in 4x8 sheets, that should have enough coverage.

by the way I think we decided how to incorporate a partial swing arm using the direct TV armature. If we can get the stock we need I will be posting pictures of the master plan in the next week or so.

CidahMastah said:

by the way I think we decided how to incorporate a partial swing arm using the direct TV armature. If we can get the stock we need I will be posting pictures of the master plan in the next week or so.

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Please do!

I'm leaning towards mounting this to the wall:

Articulating TV Mount

jbsengineer said:

Please do!

I'm leaning towards mounting this to the wall:

Articulating TV Mount

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The swing on this will have to be limited for our build unless I go to the trouble to extend my probe cordage from 6ft to 8feet or so for the BK probe. If I don't it won't necessarily reach my BK. But it might be a nice way to at least be able to rein in the armature when moving the rig, or take it off outright.

Maybe I'll just mount a heat shield to the back of the brewstand.

jbsengineer said:

Maybe I'll just mount a heat shield to the back of the brewstand.

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Ya know I was sort of thinking you might want to mount something directly to the stand too but didn't mention it (should have). especially if you aren't ready to stud out and drywall the space. That might be the best way to go. Again you could go for the simple drywall + paint (quasi studded framed approach attached to your stand) or get fancy with some 304 sheet metal $$

The electronics:

This is so beautiful...

EarthBound said:

This is so beautiful...

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Haha, thanks!

just bench tested my rig tonight!! everything worked all receptacles reading what they should pics to follow on my build thread. Just need to put the labels on the panel


I love me an ebuild!!

CidahMastah said:

just bench tested my rig tonight!! everything worked all receptacles reading what they should pics to follow on my build thread. Just need to put the labels on the panel


I love me an ebuild!!

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Very jealous given anything electrical is lying on my dining room table in parts,

I'd frame a wall behind all that, sheath with 3/8" plywood or 1/2" drywall and then finish it with sheets of Parkland plastics Polywall: http://www.parklandplastics.com/polywall.shtml

Lowes, HD, Menerds sometimes stocks it but you can special order.

Come to think of it, do you have any scrap yards close by? The one around here had some insane stainless and aluminum sheet for "scrap" prices.

After much anxiety and internal debat I have decided to do a half wall behind the brew kettles with 1/2" drywall painted with kitchen and bath paint.

I started the wall last night:



Instead of going to the floor I am mounting to just under the vapor barrier. I made sure that the barrier is not compressed so the R rating will not be affected.

Unfortuantely this will not extend to behind the sink. However on the left wall (left of the sink) I plan to use the same concept with 1/2" plywood with an FRP panel placed on top. This will make it water resistent and give me the ability to mount some shelf, hooks, etc.

How would you guys finish the edging of the drywall? Since that will actually be exposed.

I had a buddy come over last night and he helped me move the grain onto the shelving unit. This shelving unit is great for storing these buckets. This fit two deep and I can get 6 across on each row if I squeezed them.

With the new half wall I plan to mount the electrical panel onto the half wall using this:

TV Mount

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Bobby_M said:

I'd frame a wall behind all that, sheath with 3/8" plywood or 1/2" drywall and then finish it with sheets of Parkland plastics Polywall: http://www.parklandplastics.com/polywall.shtml

Lowes, HD, Menerds sometimes stocks it but you can special order.

Come to think of it, do you have any scrap yards close by? The one around here had some insane stainless and aluminum sheet for "scrap" prices.

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Have you had a chance to install this stuff? I'm considering it but I don't know how much harder or easier it will be than doing tile. Looks like installation is kind of finicky. I need to create some kind of finished surface, over pretty irregular block walls.

Polywall does require a flat substrate as it's extremely thin. Think of it almost like a formica laminant. If the block wall is bumpy, it's probably easier to frame a wall in front of it and apply the plastex thick wall which can span joists with no other substrate.

I have the studs up for my half wall. I should be able to get the drywall up tomorrow followed by painting it. Then I will finish the edges with 1"x3" to box it in. Should look pretty nice afterward, .







Speciality grains:

Where exactly do you live? LOL you may wake up in the middle of the night and hear someone brewing in your basement... Don't shoot! I'm Friendly!

CannibalAJ said:

Where exactly do you live? LOL you may wake up in the middle of the night and hear someone brewing in your basement... Don't shoot! I'm Friendly!

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Nope. Not an issue. The control panel has a keyed power switch.

Kal

Coming along great! Did you by chance buy your sink/faucet/aux faucet combo from 1234buy.com? I am looking to buy exactly the same setup.

CannibalAJ said:

Where exactly do you live? LOL you may wake up in the middle of the night and hear someone brewing in your basement... Don't shoot! I'm Friendly!

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lol, was thinking the same thing, its an awesome setup!

cscade said:

Coming along great! Did you by chance buy your sink/faucet/aux faucet combo from 1234buy.com? I am looking to buy exactly the same setup.

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I PM'ed you!

jbsengineer said:

I PM'ed you!

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would like to know this too - when you get a chance

looking great man, keep cranking

CidahMastah said:

would like to know this too - when you get a chance

looking great man, keep cranking

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Sent.

I only haven't posted it publicly because I wasn't sure if that would violate forum rules.

Did you consider metal roofing material for your back wall? Seems I saw a build somewhere using it that looked pretty good. Its made to repel water so would handle the moisture well. Might be easier than drywall, paint etc. Looks great.

smokewater said:

Did you consider metal roofing material for your back wall? Seems I saw a build somewhere using it that looked pretty good. Its made to repel water so would handle the moisture well. Might be easier than drywall, paint etc. Looks great.

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It had crossed my mind, yes. As good as it would be for moisture, it wouldn't be very well resilient for dents.

I'm exhausted.

Bust weekend. I was able to get both half walls about 90% finished. Only thing left is the trim for the wall behind the kettles.











Touchless soap dispenser (buy the soap and the dispenser is free):

Whole lot of nice shiny stainless in there. You are never going to want to leave!

holy cow. I live in Seattle, but I think I'm moving to Syracuse to be your best friend ever. that's amazing. can't wait for the final pics in action

jbsengineer said:

I'm exhausted.

Bust weekend. I was able to get both half walls about 90% finished. Only thing left is the trim for the wall behind the kettles.

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Ha Ha, every time you think you're done, you are just getting started.
Looking good so far. Wish I had a basement.

Why didn't any warn me what a project I was jumping in to?

I was able to get all the trim done. I also installed one corner post which contains barley. I think it looks very cool! There will be one in each corner post.

Next up is cleaning up the basement and starting the kettle plumbing. The final piece will be the electrical panel!

Oh, and carboy stoppers to hold the barley in. Thought that was a nice touch, .