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Here's the flow chart of how the plumbing is going to go (at least for now) Has anyone used a grant before? Our local brewpub uses it on his 7 bbl system. Essentially, the wort is drained from the mash tun via gravity into the grant (just another small tank) and is pumped out into the boil...

What's the variety of oak and the toast level? (american, french, hungarian/light, medium, heavy)

Did you say that this is a 55 gal brewing tree? I'd like to see some pics of that!

Yup, we're going to frame out a room on the other side of the shop and run an air-conditioner/heater controlled by johnson controllers. The tanks themselves are going to be the plastic conicals from the bio-diesel suppliers. We still have two of the smaller SS tanks leftover, and I've been...

I wonder how many more beers exist with Star Wars themes?

I have no idea why, but someone climbed into the furnace... Next project is installing the sinks and drain system

Seems to work fine What goes up must come down

Updates: HLT installed, bolted into the concrete floor. Tippy dump for Mash Tun installed Testing the strength of the tippy dump

The bottle (now in 750ml!) The opening The pour The presentation

The wine industry is moving more towards using sealed twist off caps instead of corks. You can't assume a wine is "cheaper" just because it has a twist off cap anymore, many very good wines are going with this packaging. The corks do allow the wine to "breath", which essentially means oxidate...

This may be a viable option, until funds can be secured for more permanant solution. Do you have any trouble with water pressure going that distance? Our flow out of that tap is a little weak. We were thinking about a pump or something inline.

@klyph Yes, we absolutely have looked into our water supply issue, and we're drafting up the proposal to the landlord for the new well as we speak ;) As of right now we're still homebrewers, so production consistancy isn't a priority. However if this starts to pan out and look commercially...

Ok, first of all, wow. You paid attention in math class. Secondly, that's 4 gallons to fill up the tube. The water is being pumped through at a rate of 5-7 gal per minute. Assuming cooling would take 30 minutes, that would be at least 150 gallons of cold water required. At little much for our...

Thanks for that advice Vinic, we were trying to decide what specifically we needed to rent to get this done. My friend pictured in the above pics is an electrician, so he's got some contracter connections. If he can't rustle something up, we might have to go for the mini excavator. As for...

I shudder to think of the volume of water required to fill 100 ft of 1" diameter tube for an IC :p I've already looked at Jaybirds stuff, and it looks like something we'll be saving up for. On another note, anyone have experience with digging/plumbing water lines? Our water source is a well...

Nice to see someone else cobbling together parts to put a brewery together, makes me feel better about our setup ;) You obviously have the hard part (fermentation) figured out, being a winemaker. Now all you need is enough equip to make the wort. So far so good, keep us updated!

One mounted... Two mounted! The HLT will be mounted directly to the left of the lefthand tank.

Some stainless steel sinks that we'll be installing soon. They're 16 ft long (!) Taking the casters off the tanks to mount them to the workbench