A friend and I have been brewing for a while and have been batting around the idea of quitting working for the man and starting our own brewery.
We were pretty serious about it but were on a 2 year plan of sorts. Get our recipes down, get some money in the bank, etc.
Well, a local contract brewer went out of business and we were looking at buying one of her conical fermenters. We found out who originally built it and found out new it would run about $1500 or so. We asked what she wanted for it and she asked for an offer. We were afraid we would insult her with our offer and said $200 and its ours. We then had a little phone conference and made our offer for her entire system. 2 conical fermenters, an entire 3 tier all grain system, kegging and bottling set up, regultars, pH gagues, everything. She took it. About $6000 woth of stuff, for 1500.
So, in a couple of days I (we) will be a professional brewer. Not quitting my job or anything just yet. This is all a bit faster than we were planning but we're all totally psyched about the whole thing. We are going to have a party to announce the thing with kegs for the party and 6ers for sale.
The lady that had it before is going to not only give us three of her recipes that she was using commercially but also offered us consulting to get us up and running. That is almost worth the price of equipment in my opinion.
Wish me luck.
We were pretty serious about it but were on a 2 year plan of sorts. Get our recipes down, get some money in the bank, etc.
Well, a local contract brewer went out of business and we were looking at buying one of her conical fermenters. We found out who originally built it and found out new it would run about $1500 or so. We asked what she wanted for it and she asked for an offer. We were afraid we would insult her with our offer and said $200 and its ours. We then had a little phone conference and made our offer for her entire system. 2 conical fermenters, an entire 3 tier all grain system, kegging and bottling set up, regultars, pH gagues, everything. She took it. About $6000 woth of stuff, for 1500.
So, in a couple of days I (we) will be a professional brewer. Not quitting my job or anything just yet. This is all a bit faster than we were planning but we're all totally psyched about the whole thing. We are going to have a party to announce the thing with kegs for the party and 6ers for sale.
The lady that had it before is going to not only give us three of her recipes that she was using commercially but also offered us consulting to get us up and running. That is almost worth the price of equipment in my opinion.
Wish me luck.
