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Hi, I started recently brewing and have a few question. I bought a 5.25 gal all grain kit and have been brewing 1.5 gal batches (scaling down everything) in order to experiment. Based on my first brew I estimated a wort loss of around 40% during the mashing/sparging process and 35% loss...

This is what the federal law says: § 25.21 Restrictions on location. "A brewery may not be established or operated in any dwelling house or on board any vessel or boat, or in any building or on any premises where the revenue will be jeopardized or the effective administration of this part...

Thanks everyone for the replies, I do plan on start brewing 5 gal batches to learn, practice and make some recipes. I have order a 5 gallon all grain ingredient kit already and some of the basic stuff I need. I know this is going to be a long process but I want to start doing a good business...

I've been researching on this and the requirements and permits doesn't look impossible to achieve but still need to do a little more research specially at the state level. As for the business idea, the plan right now is to build a relatively small brewery system (small in investment), that's...

Hi LaurieGator, you are right I have never brewed beer. I'm totally new to this. At the moment I'm planing on building a small and simple HERMS system to start brewing and begin getting the experience and start trying different receipts. Even if I don't make it to get this into a business I...

Thanks for the input, I'll do a search here. Ok, I edited the text to avoid problems on the forum. Thanks

Hi everyone, first of all I want to introduce my self. I'm a young male, mechanical engineer from Puerto Rico and I love beer. I'm going to write a little of how I got into this forum... I'm currently working on an aerospace company and its cool and everything but quite frankly, I hate being...