Poultry & Brewing don't mix.

Howdy Ya'll,

I have been homebrewing for 15 years,
and my brewing skills have evolved to where
my 6-7-8 Lb Hammerbier is a masterpiece.

More recently, since my last near fatal motorcycle wreck,
I have gotten into poultry again.
Clean legged silver Marans, OEG Bantams and Gunieas.

Now my problem is that my homebrew is,
of course, brewed, reracked and bottled in my kitchen.
But my 'egg incubator' is under the kitchen table.
And I have a new one for when #1 gets full in the spring.
A cardboard box, a 'homebrew brooder box',
is by the door and I need another.
My poultry empire is expanding, as the weather gets colder,
into my brewing space.
Now this is not funny.
I lost a young hen outside this morning,
she was alright, if a little cold looking this morning at 7:30,
and by 8:00 was dead.
Dern.
They get cold too, and the kitchen is nice and warm,
but what is the end result of bringing poultry 'in for the winter'
as it were, and into such close proximity to ones special precious homebrew, specifically the airborne spoilage micro-organisms,
into the place where I don't even like my friends to come into.

What do ya'll do about such?


Thank you


J. Knife

Well, I can tell you the only chickens that are in my kitchen have been parted out. Wouldnt there be terrible smell in your house if you became a co-habitator with chickens? They are not the most clean of barn yard animals.

I can honestly say I have no experience with this particular scenario, but I would think that sanitation would be a big concern with chicken 'stuff' floating around in your kitchen.

OTOH, the chickens might die outside, but the brewer will not. Once the brew is safely in a fermentor/secondary and airlocked up it should be okay in the kitchen. Just brew and rack outside.

I have to say, Jack, that as selective as I have to be with my time these days your threads are the ones I always click on.

I don't know... this sounds like an excellent excuse to make Papazian's chicken brew.