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You had better, or I will ;) I can't even imagine the hell and damnation that my wife would bring down upon me if I did that in our place.

When these threads periodically show up, I feel the need to share my pain with those who have experianced the same. I love the blast pattern My roomate thought a gun went off in the closet. Immediately after the explosion there was a pool of purple liquid slowly oozing out from under...

My god, bottling a barrel's worth of beer. I can't even fathom that. I bitch and whine about bottling 5 gallons...

Absolutely outstanding. How did you chill down your wort? Did you use whirlfloc or irish moss in the boil for clarity? Do you filter your finished beer? What's the meaning of life?

Thanks for the props Orfy!

Hoping to mount the HLT on the workbench in the back, so the high ceilings will be helpful. As we found it. (Well, except for the beer bottles. Those are ours) Not sure if we're going to use this hose that came with the tanks The only lid, we may need someone to fabricate a...

4 60 gallon tanks Also with beefy ball valves Apologies for the blurry. The detached garage we'll be using for the brewery. It hasn't been used in a lot of years, so it's a bit dirty. Cleanup will be documented, this is the "before" shot

The Pics! The 120 gallon HLT Think they're 2" triclovers Beefy Mounted securely on casters

I'm going big as well, and in asking our local brewpub owner/brewer, he said that in his early days he took his IC, put it in a bucket of ice water and ran the beer through the copper tubing, then back into the kettle. After recirculating like this for a bit, he had the kettle down to temp...

I've heard of that trick with beer coolers before, sounds like a good option. Expect many pics this weekend, tanks, brewhouse, electrical, water, etc

Gonna need some specs on that stuff when you get around to it. Boy am I glad all you guys are doing this before I try to! Saves me a lot of trial and error ;)

2.5 gallon batches are perfectly sized for the stovetop. You can use a pot as the mash tun, direct heat it on the range, and then just strain/sparge out of it to the kettle on another burner. 2.5 gallons is small enough that you can just pick up the pots and dump them back and forth, no need for...

So we may have solved our chilling issue. In talking with the local brewpub owner/brewer, he said that in his early days, he used a copper coil, immersed in water and frozen (in a bucket) and pumped the hot wort through the copper tubing. After a recirculation or two, the wort would be down to...

Descriptive term for Redstone? Young. Most redstone meads you find on the shelf are less than one year old, and from personal experience, anything over two years is phenominal. While I'm no mead expert, redstone makes they're traditional mead...well, traditionally. Ken Schramm is the father...

Their traditional, not those 9% nectars, I'm not a fan of those.

We went to the Blind Tiger in NYC, and the non-beer drinking swmbo was looking for something to have. I noticed a dusty bottle of Redstone mead behind the cash register, and asked for a glass of the mead. After I was given an uncomprehending look I pointed to the blue bottle and got a wine glass...

+1 to starting with 7bbls or more. It will take you almost exactly the same amount of time to make 7 bbls as it will to make 1. Your profit margin with 14 half barrel kegs will be much greater than your margin on 2 half barrel kegs. This being said I'm starting a 1 bbl brewery :p I figure it...

I'm going to get my dimensions this weekend and look into his falsebottoms. Anyone have pics yet?

I know, I actually climbed inside one and just sat there for a minute and pretended I was the beer we were about to make :drunk:

Jakeshivers: Negative, we're just putting together the brewery now, so we're more focused on equipment and construction. Once we get it cobbled together, we'll start doing pilot batches to figure out the system. Once we get some consistancy between batches, we'll start the process of building a...