Help me restructure my Brew House

Greetings,

I'm looking at re-organizing my whole brewery downstairs. I have a fairly large basement and a garage that is attached to the house so it's typically 15degrees colder in the winter and 15 warmer in the summer.

Is there a good thread or design plans somewhere on the most intelligent way to organize all your brew stuff. Ya know, like a grain/crushing area, fermentation space, equipment organization.

I'm sure someone has come up with an efficient way to setup your basement brewery. Please share your plans or ideas. Like I'm not sure if I should store and set most stuff up in the basement or the garage??

If you have a photo of you storage setup, post a pic. Thanks!

What ever works for you, unless someone lives in the same house as you what you are asking for wont help.

what I would do: Brew in the garage, keep all brewing equipment in there. You can light propane in a basement if it is well ventilated but I would just go for the garage. When you are done brewing take your kettle down to the basement and deal with fermentation processes, most likely the best area for fermentation temps.

I think his garage is at the basement level which makes things easier.

1. Crush grain, mash and sparge in the garage. Ferment and serve in the basement.

2. Options and variations are almost limitless based on time, space and money.

3. Most of us start with what we have on hand and never stop improving, moving, re-organizing etc.

Linc

missing link said:

.3. Most of us start with what we have on hand and never stop improving, moving, re-organizing etc.
Linc

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ain't that the truth

I've heard that you should store/crush your grains in a separate area from where you ferment. The grains can have nasties on them that you don't want in your post-boil wort.

But I'd go with what link said.

This is hopefully what it will look like sooner or later (prob later), to add counter space and make bottling easier:

I suggest using Google Sketchup and making a model drawing of the space and go from there. 3D modeling makes changes so much easier.

85 Haro Designs said:

I suggest using Google Sketchup and making a model drawing of the space and go from there. 3D modeling makes changes so much easier.

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Very good idea. How hard is sketchup to use if you never have?

easy and there are youtube videos to help you if you need it.

iamjonsharp said:

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Wow you have one of those cat dryers? We recently purchased a dog dryer too

P.S. I like to see that Rogue beers made it all the way to your basement in Ohio.

sketchup is the easiest 3d tool in the world