1 bbl SS Brewtech Chronical Brewmaster Unboxing/Assembly

[akthor]

Well I've actually had these since Friday but with work I've had no time to unbox them. I'm off today but I worked overnight so I gotta sleep but here's a tease. Hopefully I'll get to them today....

 

[akthor]

Alright first off I can't comment enough on what an awesome job they did packing these. I work for 3M and have packed thousands of 3M products and the packing system they use would impress any 3M engineer. I think the delivery driver could have thrown them off the truck as he drove by and they would have been fine.

Everything about them is amazing but the most impressive part? So eventually the bar and brew room will be in our detached garage. But first we need to upgrade the electrical service from 30 amps to 100 and we need to do plumbing, water and septic to it. Thus is gonna be particularly pricey because our garage is across the road from our house. It will involve trenching since everything has to go under the road. So in the meantime I was going to build a temporary brewing room in the dank dungeon like basement. Was going to take a lot of "sweat equity" to undank and undungeon it.

BUT my wife walked in and saw the assembled fermenter and was like " those are too pretty to be in the basement! " So she wants me to make a corner of the upstairs living room the brewing area. Amazing right??? So excited not to be in the basement!

To the pictures!

 

[akthor]

I felt bad cutting up the inner box it was like artwork it was so nice.

 

[akthor]

The coasters were a nice touch.

 

[akthor]

The neoprene jacket is very substantial, nothing about the whole setup feels cheap.

 

[akthor]

They got a lot of stuff in that tiny box of accessories. I bought butterfly valves prior to deciding to buy these fermenters the ones that came from SS Brewtech are much nicer. Metal handles versus plastic for one.

 

[akthor]

I didn't put the racking arm in because they recommend lubing the o rings and I didn't have any keg lube handy.

They even included extra nuts, washers, o rings, clamps and even batteries for the LCD thermometer.

All finished with one. Now the other. Can't wait til I can fill them. I'll post a review then.

 

[peoples22]

Thanks for posting! I'm debating on picking up the 14 gal brewmaster myself so I look forward to hearing how they work out for ya.

 

[Ike]

BUT my wife walked in and saw the assembled fermenter and was like " those are too pretty to be in the basement! " So she wants me to make a corner of the upstairs living room the brewing area. Amazing right??? So excited not to be in the basement!

Yep, she's a keeper.