Electric 10G Basement brewery build. "sorta"

[Jako]

that spay nozzle is bank! sell me on it. haha

i want that spring looking sprayer so i can let go and not have it fall in the way.

that cleaning process sounds really good. i might have to try that. As of now i have a big tub that i dump my grain and hops into. i plan to compost soon so i will have a good use for it all. once i finish my transfer i spay the kettle down while running the pump into the mop sink. (one of the few good use's for it) once the water is clear i will add PBW and use the CIP ball.

i would love to find a way to reuse my RO waste water and the CFC water. i might invest in a cheap pump and use the RO waste and ice bottles to flash chill wort. I am starting to ramble.

i like the idea of Epoxy for easy clean up. like you said concrete turns into a sponge. my cold storage needs cleaning and some work to make it a proper cold storage.

You are on the right track. asking and reading up on other builds is a great idea. I did some but i wish i took some advice and knew what i did now. i wanted my brewery to look amazing and should have put more thought into how hard is it to clean and functional space.

last thought, if you can. make an access panel in the wall this way you can add water or electric to other parts of the room. this way you are not stuck to one lay out.

 

[Biggz1313]

that spay nozzle is bank! sell me on it. haha

i want that spring looking sprayer so i can let go and not have it fall in the way.

that cleaning process sounds really good. i might have to try that. As of now i have a big tub that i dump my grain and hops into. i plan to compost soon so i will have a good use for it all. once i finish my transfer i spay the kettle down while running the pump into the mop sink. (one of the few good use's for it) once the water is clear i will add PBW and use the CIP ball.

i would love to find a way to reuse my RO waste water and the CFC water. i might invest in a cheap pump and use the RO waste and ice bottles to flash chill wort. I am starting to ramble.

i like the idea of Epoxy for easy clean up. like you said concrete turns into a sponge. my cold storage needs cleaning and some work to make it a proper cold storage.

You are on the right track. asking and reading up on other builds is a great idea. I did some but i wish i took some advice and knew what i did now. i wanted my brewery to look amazing and should have put more thought into how hard is it to clean and functional space.

last thought, if you can. make an access panel in the wall this way you can add water or electric to other parts of the room. this way you are not stuck to one lay out.

haha yeah, that spray nozzel is pricey but it's actually one of the cheaper ones. I saw other very similar ones for like $180 and it better do way more than just spray water haha. I figured since I'm going to just buy a cheap faucet to hook a short hose up to, I could justify the cost. The spring looking sprayers that I saw were almost twice as expensive as that and it's pretty much tethered to the sink, where with this nozzle, I can use it with however long of a hose I buy. It's nice because a soft squeeze give you a nice wide cone of water for washing sidewalls down, but a hard squeeze gives you a nice hard jet of water for anything stubborn. I figured once I have some framing/walls up I'll just buy a small hook and hang the hose from the tap over the hood so this nozzle hangs down like the spray nozzle you're referring to, but if I ever need more length, just take the hose off the hook. So far it's been well worth the investment.

I just found out about all the waste water with the RO systems yesterday on a Brulosophy podcast and I immediately started to try and think how I can save some of it for cleanup and what not. If I can't think of a good way, I may just try and find a good place around town that I can fill bottles of RO and go that route. I've heard you can find it pretty cheap, the podcast said sometimes as low as like $0.24 per gallon, just a hassle to have to go pickup water whenever you want to brew.

Right now because no running water in the basement, I've been using a small $20 sump pump in a 7 gallon bucket that I fill with ice (sometimes ice packs I have a shitton of them) and pump the ice water through the CFC and then back into the same bucket. When that water gets too warm, I put the return hose into another empty bucket and refill the bucket with more cold water. The warm return water is typically what I'll use for cleaning so I don't have to heat cold tap water as much.

Access panel is a pretty good idea. I'll have to ask our guy helping on the basement if I can't work that in somehow.

 

[Jako]

extension of my brewer. also added another apple tree, i now have 8 trees. This tree is a gaffed with Cider verities Goldrush, Kingston black, Ashmeads Kernel and another one but i cant remember at this time. also have a current bush as well as a honeyberry bush i plan to play around with.

I hope to have Bee's next year just depends how carried away i end up getting with my side projects. the first week with the green house ended with the north wall giving in and me chasing panels all over. The worst part is i had the materials to make sure it didn't happen just not the time. I needed to add 3 valves in the front for grass before the hydro seed was sprayed. [ i might have said that but don't remember anymore}

 

[Jako]

haha yeah, that spray nozzel is pricey but it's actually one of the cheaper ones. I saw other very similar ones for like $180 and it better do way more than just spray water haha. I figured since I'm going to just buy a cheap faucet to hook a short hose up to, I could justify the cost. The spring looking sprayers that I saw were almost twice as expensive as that and it's pretty much tethered to the sink, where with this nozzle, I can use it with however long of a hose I buy. It's nice because a soft squeeze give you a nice wide cone of water for washing sidewalls down, but a hard squeeze gives you a nice hard jet of water for anything stubborn. I figured once I have some framing/walls up I'll just buy a small hook and hang the hose from the tap over the hood so this nozzle hangs down like the spray nozzle you're referring to, but if I ever need more length, just take the hose off the hook. So far it's been well worth the investment.

I just found out about all the waste water with the RO systems yesterday on a Brulosophy podcast and I immediately started to try and think how I can save some of it for cleanup and what not. If I can't think of a good way, I may just try and find a good place around town that I can fill bottles of RO and go that route. I've heard you can find it pretty cheap, the podcast said sometimes as low as like $0.24 per gallon, just a hassle to have to go pickup water whenever you want to brew.

Right now because no running water in the basement, I've been using a small $20 sump pump in a 7 gallon bucket that I fill with ice (sometimes ice packs I have a shitton of them) and pump the ice water through the CFC and then back into the same bucket. When that water gets too warm, I put the return hose into another empty bucket and refill the bucket with more cold water. The warm return water is typically what I'll use for cleaning so I don't have to heat cold tap water as much.

Access panel is a pretty good idea. I'll have to ask our guy helping on the basement if I can't work that in somehow.

I try to use the waste water to clean, chill my fermenter for now with frozen bottles in water using a old cooler. in the perfect world i could run the line up and out of the house into a storage tank used for plants or garden.