avg Yearly Production for 20bbl Brewhouse?

[schreck]

curious as to the numbers... also any rough estimates on the net sales and possibly the profitability. also yearly take home for the owner/brewmaster?

sparked by a discussion with some friends while enjoying some homebrews and watching the yanks

 

[david_42]

Figure a maximum of 43800 barrels a year. That's 6 batches a day.

Your other questions cannot be answered, because there are too many variables. I know people who make a living with 3-4 barrel systems.

 

[remilard]

Figure a maximum of 43800 barrels a year. That's 6 batches a day.

Your other questions cannot be answered, because there are too many variables. I know people who make a living with 3-4 barrel systems.

I think Boulevard was doing 10 batches a day before they upgraded their brewhouse a few years ago. Alaskan was around there at one point too. That is pushing everything to the max assuming you are using a lauter tun (not a mash filter, which no 20 BBL brewhouse is that I know of).

That being said, that level of production is not ideal and is the result of market demand changing faster than a new brewhouse can be installed.

 

[carnevoodoo]

You are correct to assume that there's no mash filters being used on 20bbl brewhouses. That technology is just too expensive for an operation that size.

 

[zgardener]

I know this was posted a while ago so maybe it wasn't common 2 years ago, but I'm in the process of planning a brewery, and I've found several 20 bbl and 30 bbl brew houses with mash filters. I've actually seen very few systems with a lauter tun...

 

[badhabit]

I guess if you wanted to you could do a batch about every two hours as long as you had a seperate HLT and whirlpool. I have see a large number of craft breweries that are using 20 or even 10 BBL systems.

 

[Sacdan]

Last year we went to Full Sail. They "press" their mash to squeeze out the Wort. They said that there are no I'll affects from squeezing it. No astringency.