pokerfreak2
Well-Known Member
A friend owns a very well established resturant/tourist trap and wants to offer about 5 home made beers. He is a home brewer as well. After much discussion he still wants to set this up in the cheapest fashion possible
Anyway, Here is what we have come up with to get this off the ground.
His resturant serves 3000 people per day during the peak tourist season. (4 mounths)
Approx 1/3 of them drink beer. So 1000 beer drinkers per day. Assuming 1/2 will only drink BMC. We would get 500 homebrew drinkers. Some would order the pint and some will order the qt. and a few will take a 1/2 gal growler to go as a souvenier. That works out to about 100-125 gal per day.(during a 4 month peak season) open 7 days a week. 700+ gals per week or 2800 gal per month x 4 months = 11,200 gals. Then the other 8 months we estimate selling about 4 kegs per week of homebrew = 248 gals x 8 months = 1984 so a total of 13,184 gallons per year = 425 bbls a year.
Like I said he wants to start off cheaply so we came up with a plan to do a mini mash/extract brewing in a 75 gal brew kettle a plate chiller then transfering to 5 of these 110 gal plastic conical fermentors and topping off with water to 80 gal.http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=3152 Let that ferment for approx 10 days and then transfering to kegs to condition for another 3 weeks to a month. Is this insane ? I was going to post this on pro brewer but I am afraid they would laugh me out of there.
Anyway, Here is what we have come up with to get this off the ground.
His resturant serves 3000 people per day during the peak tourist season. (4 mounths)
Approx 1/3 of them drink beer. So 1000 beer drinkers per day. Assuming 1/2 will only drink BMC. We would get 500 homebrew drinkers. Some would order the pint and some will order the qt. and a few will take a 1/2 gal growler to go as a souvenier. That works out to about 100-125 gal per day.(during a 4 month peak season) open 7 days a week. 700+ gals per week or 2800 gal per month x 4 months = 11,200 gals. Then the other 8 months we estimate selling about 4 kegs per week of homebrew = 248 gals x 8 months = 1984 so a total of 13,184 gallons per year = 425 bbls a year.
Like I said he wants to start off cheaply so we came up with a plan to do a mini mash/extract brewing in a 75 gal brew kettle a plate chiller then transfering to 5 of these 110 gal plastic conical fermentors and topping off with water to 80 gal.http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=3152 Let that ferment for approx 10 days and then transfering to kegs to condition for another 3 weeks to a month. Is this insane ? I was going to post this on pro brewer but I am afraid they would laugh me out of there.