Welp.... I had bid on a condo and it won!!! The forecasted closing date is September 27th, so I probably won't be doing any brewing until I'm into the new place. It's cool tho, I have enough beer to get me through until then.
Here's the only catch. It has a small one car garage, not big enough to have a full brewing setup. I want to have a work bench so I can let gravity do the work with fly-sparging, moving to the kettle, etc and there's no room in the garage for a bench. Also, for chilling, the utility tub is in the basement. I can't just let the water from the chiller flow into the yard, as it's a condo and we're not allowed to water the lawn. I can mash and sparge in the basement, get it into the keggle, carry it up the stairs, boil outside, take the keggle back downstairs, then cool the wort and rack it there. That sounds like a beotch.
The second option is to do everything in the basement, including the boil. I'm just scared the evaporation from the boil would affect the floorboards above. The basement has block windows, so I can't rig a ventilation system. Is anyone doing full boils in a basement? Any input would be appreciated.
Here's the only catch. It has a small one car garage, not big enough to have a full brewing setup. I want to have a work bench so I can let gravity do the work with fly-sparging, moving to the kettle, etc and there's no room in the garage for a bench. Also, for chilling, the utility tub is in the basement. I can't just let the water from the chiller flow into the yard, as it's a condo and we're not allowed to water the lawn. I can mash and sparge in the basement, get it into the keggle, carry it up the stairs, boil outside, take the keggle back downstairs, then cool the wort and rack it there. That sounds like a beotch.
The second option is to do everything in the basement, including the boil. I'm just scared the evaporation from the boil would affect the floorboards above. The basement has block windows, so I can't rig a ventilation system. Is anyone doing full boils in a basement? Any input would be appreciated.