check out my new beer station!

[furstyjaymar13]

Space to brew has been a premium for me so when I hear of a wardrobe being dumped, I think free wood for a long needed 'beer station'! Im using the skyscraper principle to save much needed floorspace.

What does everyone think? Useful? Crazy? Suggestions? Anyone else do anything similar?
I'm gonna be fermenting at the top section, then siphoning down to a keg/bottles or to store for later in the bottom section.

I'm going to clad it in material and insulation at some point so I can keep it warm and right now I'm wondering if I could attach some sort of heater and regulator in the future.

 

[unionrdr]

Looks like a good idea when you insulate the fermenting part. If I understand you correctly. Here's what I did;

I re-purposed an old printer stand as a fermentation/storage stand. I got the 2' x 4' table at Walmart for a bottling stand. I have yet to build a fermentation cabinet for the two fermenters shown to go on top of the stand.

 

[furstyjaymar13]

Nice! Looks like a bit of a specialist brewing room you have there. Reminds me I need to invest in a bottle drainer too!
Yeah its got to be done I think, gonna use some spare fibre glass and enclose it with some type of fabric. I've been doing all my ales at an ambient room temperature 20c which is far from ideal of course. Got loads of ideas for it, mostly mad ones though. Its a nice little project to keep me entertained though!

 

[unionrdr]

We built the house in this development 14 years ago. The room pictured was originally intended as a parlor. Hadn't seen one of those since my grandma's house with the Victrola. None of that here! I decided it was to be my man cave with computer & eventually the little brewery you see now. Gonna have wood plank floors & a table in the future. 20C is 68F,so that's a decent ale brewing temp. But controlled fermentation is always better. It's interesting to see how others solve that little problem. Yours is rather unique in that it combines the brew sculpture with the fermentation cabinet. Good thought,that!